Roberts Did Not Remember, Bobo Had Other Ideas
Anybody can jump ship, Just insist Ambition, at least that's nice. This isn't ever going to be a problem. Scriminations, as they say. And anyways, The Lady Giddens was a rather lovely ship. The leather-clad elemental stormed the frigate, racketed...
All Means All
“It's discrimination!" “Hey, sir, I'm gonna have to ask you to either keep it down or leave, you're disturbing people." The capybara approached like an iceberg, quiet and smooth. “Oh, you don't care about my rights?!" The doberman turned to glare...
There's a Place in the Great Pack for You
"Welp, here they are, then," said Dad. Paul's bags were packed. He'd done that before sunrise. Wallet and ID. Toothbrush, toothpaste. Utility knife with pliers, screwdriver, and can opener. Scarf he'd knitted, wool he'd sheared himself, that year he'd...
A Young Ballade, and Naive
The garden is in heavy bloom. Beneath serene cerulean sky The flowers leave not even room For hurried ants to scurry by. And even when they richly die Slow fruit shall swell where once they grew, Delightful both to taste and eye: But I would...
Fumigantlocology Compendium
(Originally published - Oct 2nd 2021) Was thinking about this all day, and while I can't really make predictions about the precise way things in The Smoke Room are going to end, I think I can rank which routes are more likely that other to be the...
Sing In Me, Holy One, and Through Me
As far as Bethany Smith was concerned, the Oregon Trail could go and fuck itself. Probably it'd go to Oregon to do that. That was where it seemed to be determined to get to, God knows why, but she wasn't particular: the trail could fuck itself anywhere...
Tradewind Vs. Accord
Emily set down her cardboard tray. "We should do this more often." Seth and Martin both hesitated. She had to hand them each their own coffees, grumbling as she did. "Can't you read the names on the sides of the cup? It's not that hard." "I was...
An Act of Seidhr
I was born to those who loathed me, although they did not yet know it Taught hymns unto a god who would delight in my destruction. Confirmed and consecrated to religion that despised me. Yet I am blamed for leaving it. The fathers call me...
Initial Survey of Quaisholm Cave Paintings, Origin Unknown, presumed Upper Mesolithic
The sunset lit the hills behind him. The breeze lifted the trees over him. And the path stretched out before him. Others of his tribe, maybe, would have said there was no one else there. Sana knew better. Not quite twelve days ago, one of the young...
Love Against Aggravation
_What glorious loves does history display,_ _But greater still is trust. There's grander, more luxurious ways to play_ _But this will do for us._ As once, within a earth-cool family room, I shepherded bright...
The Lepanto Institute
Thin thoughts thrashing in the think tank's fears (Don John of Austria's been dead hundreds of years.) You type your twitter messages of heresy and hate, But Notes of the Community shall set the record straight. The pope is not a president. His...
He Of the Trees
“Orpheus founded too the mysteries of Dionysus, and having been rent asunder by the Maenads he rests in Pieria." — Apollodorus, “The Library," I, 3, 2. “I hope you've been comfortable?" “As comfortable as one can be in prison, sir." “You...