Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 60
60 Lonin felt like he was standing right in the middle of the eye of the storm, a single spot of calm in a sea of chaos. "Where the hell is my coat!?" Nicholas yelled, tearing cushions off the couch and tossing them to the floor...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 59
59 "Oh, gods... Oh dear, sweet gods..." Vicky had gone to the window to close the curtains when the snow started to come down heavy, but now her hand was frozen on the cheap fabric. Her own reflection stared back at her from inside the glass, a pale...
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 58
58 Kiana really didn't know what to do with herself anymore. Previously, it had felt like there were never enough hours in the day to do everything she wanted, but now they seemed to ooze along like snails, and this grim silence hanging over the house...
Much Ado About Bluebottles
Episode One: "Hurry up, Tr'lia!" LiLi sang over her shoulder as she hopped through the market's wide aisles. Her clawed feet stirred little puffs of dust as they scrabbled for purchase. "Come on!" "I'm coming." Tr'lia sighed. She clutched the netted...
Ander - Epilogue: Subchapter 10 (THE END)
10 "Kiana?" he whispered so softly he could barely hear his own voice. It somehow felt like any kind of noise in this place, in this moment, would be akin to sacrilege. He stepped inside and eased the door shut behind him, wincing at the click of the...
Ander - Epilogue: Subchapter 9
9 Ander was vaguely aware of an awful throbbing in his fingers, but that seemed far away and unimportant. There was something else going on, something so fundamentally wrong it was able to reach him even through the shifting haze of shadows he had...
Ander - Epilogue: Subchapter 8
8 - here!" Ander didn't open the front door so much as he _smashed_ it open and tumbled inside like a lunatic. Rufio and Hezzi were already there. Hezzi was pacing up and down in front of the fireplace, and Rufio was relaxing by the open window,...
Ander - Epilogue: Subchapter 5
5 He could hear it up ahead, the sound of the river. It was so different to the roar of a year ago, the thunderous, roiling crash of muddy brown water sluicing through the earth. This sound reaching his ears now, through the trees and the shifting...
Ander - Epilogue: Subchapter 4
4 Standing in the shade with his hands in pockets, James couldn't help but stare at the mountain for a while. It was so different in the summertime. No armour of frost and snow to cover its sheer peaks. No howling wind tearing through the cliffs. No...
Ander - Epilogue: Subchapter 3
3 "Now that was some odd weather," James said, starry-eyed from the memory of those two rushing out of the chapel, not unlike the way he had rushed outside with Emily on their wedding day. The breeze whispered through the sycamore and a smattering of...
Ander - Epilogue: Subchapter 2
2 This tiny little room at the back of the chapel had a massive full-length mirror running up the wall, and it was in front of this mirror that Kiana now stood, just as countless blushing brides before her had done, turning this way and that,...
Ander - Epilogue: Subchapter 1
Chapter 7 Epilogue 1 The sun beat down from a clear blue sky, glinting off the weatherworn gravestones as they stood in their neat little rows. Away in the distance, cicadas chirped their repetitive songs as though in complaint of the baking...