The Birdwalker

Fog cloaked the city. Grackles cawed in the gathering dark as the Birdwalker stalked the banks of the river. He was looking for someone...

Oct 31, 2016

A Ghost's Story

They said I was a witch. What would they know? I lived off the land, like anyone with any common sense to spare would have. I learned...

Oct 24, 2016

The Flicker

The creature drifted down a dark alley. He was a shadow, a fragment of a thought, a flicker at the edge of someone’s vision. Once, he had...

Oct 17, 2016

The Joking Jack-o'-Lantern

A jack-o’-lantern grinned from the porch, its eyes glowing with orange candlelight. No one remembered carving it, but there it sat,...

Oct 3, 2016

The Shadow's End

The coyotes were laughing until they saw the shadow pass. Then they went quiet and slipped away to the river. The shadow was hunting....

Jan 23, 2016

Death waits by the water

Don’t turn your back on the water. It’s dangerous. You can’t see the danger, but it’s there. It’s not hiding. This water isn’t murky. It...

Sep 27, 2015

The Trees

It was dark. The night was cool. The air was crisp. A sliver of the moon hung in the sky above, and the stars burned brightly. The trees...

Oct 31, 2014

Eyes

Eyes are the windows to the soul ­— or so she’d been told. She’d seen it herself often enough to know its truth. She’d seen it in the...

Oct 20, 2014