Blood and Fire chapter 2 (teaser)
The sky over the Queen's Tower was overcast, promising rain. Kelwyn looked up at it with a faint frown. "Think you can be there and back without getting wet?" said Harun, standing beside him on the balcony. He looked just as he always did, which...
Uplink
"Connection established." The virtual world shimmered into place around Eli's black-backed jackal avatar. It was a simple, grassy space, presented with near-perfect fidelity, but distinguished from reality by the small HUD that hovered just to one...
Blood and Fire - chapter 1 (teaser)
The Tower of the Eternal Queen soared high into the sky, an elegant spire of stone stabbing up amid the clouds. It was built of silvery gray granite, the blocks so meticulously shaped that the joins between them were nearly invisible. The lower levels...
Black Sepia - chapter 9
Aziraphale stared at the stack of paperwork in front of him. He was perched on the edge of his couch, with the papers set on an end table he'd pulled around. This was because Crowley was curled around him like a backrest, and he hadn't wanted to move...
Black Sepia - chapter 8
They reeled arm in arm out of the festival, laughing. Aziraphale was stuffed to the gills and had gotten his palm read, among other things. Crowley had only tasted bits of the various food on offer, but even he'd gotten enough to make nearly a full...
Firedragons
It was a hot summer day, the sun shining down from a perfectly cloudless sky, warming the slopes of the mountain below. A brisk wind kept the heat from being oppressive, and the dry air meant it wasn't at all muggy. It was the kind of day that was...
Fire and Ice
When the long spring first began to break the ice on the rivers of the outer world, I was born. I broke open the hard shell of my egg, cracking it as the rivers were cracking. Indeed the first sounds I heard were the breaking of the ice outside the...