Short Fiction (Online) Archives

Starblind, Booklost, and Hearing the Songs of True Birds

Historian Vitalius Cotton’s brother has been cursed by prophecy since they were kids. Vitalius has a chance to return his brother to a normal life, but it probably bring huge changes to the city, it’s history, and Vitalius’ own life. “Starblind” is set in the same city as my previous stories “Moonless” and “Sunfast.” His […]

Sunfast, Shadowplay and Saintswalk

A young girl watches her older sister go through a coming-of-age ritual in a mysterious and fantastic city.

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Skating bird demon from Bosch's Temptation of St. Anthony

Detail from a Painting by Hieronymus Bosch

A story told from the point of view of an ice-skating demon in a painting by the 15th/16th century Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch.

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The Night Gardener

A fairy tale with a robot.

In the future, on Mars, our young narrator is left alone for months at a time in an automated, intelligent house that sees to all his needs. He tells himself stories to pass the time, and one night, something appears that he hasn’t imagined…

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