Chapter 1 Do you believe that there are wizards in the world?I can tell you that I believe it.More than that,I am a wizard,actually,a witch. Do you believe that there are some vampires around you?Before last year,I didn’t believe this at all.You know, Although the textbook of Magic School tells us that the vampire is […]
Two crazy things happened to me last year. Firstly, after years of procrastination, I decided to finally to pursue my dream of authoring a novel in the young adult/supernatural fantasy genre (for brevity, let’s just say something along the lines of Harry Potter, or Twilight if it didn’t completely blow). Up to this point, I’d […]
Every day for the last eight months, I’ve walked down the highway after dark. I find that, amonst other things, it helps clear my head after a soul-crushing day of data entry and meaningless office chatter. Now it’s become so much part of my routine that every day after I leave work I feel a […]
When Avery Hall saw the low shadow across the distant trees, he knew it was a wolf. Dogs waste movement. They lean, bounce, waddle, their hind legs extend too far, their tongues loll, their eyes fail. Time is their only predator, a bowl their only prey. The woods keeps the wolf’s arrow point sharp. Across […]
The true crime books made it worse. My mind got to be a blender of murders.
At least in Vietnam there had been a kind of narrative playing itself out. Half a century later, the past next-door sees them no longer bending towards anything. News items reach a prolonged, flat culmination. Historical headway and the whole idea slowly flanked by skeletons. Somewhere along the line a gatemaker stands a long […]
“Oh shit,” screams Maya, giving us away. He runs at us.
This is a story of one big mistake, which seemed to be the right choice in the beginning.