He looked up from his sickbed. His saviour worked at a desk, her back to him. Strands of drying herbs hung from the ceiling around her, and her shoulders moved…
She drifted down lonely paths, the flowers in her hair withered black and her bare feet thick with mud and ashen with cold. Where laughter called, she turned away. Where…
They approached the thrashing, snarling creature hanging from the snare, calmly dodging claws as long as their fingers and snapping teeth with cruel points. They spun the creature around and…
They hungered. Not just for food, though they needed it. Not just for shelter or love, though they wanted it. They were hungry because their spirit was being starved. The…
She sat overlooking the ocean, legs dangling from the clifftop. Her blackened armour was beaded with gore, but her sword was plunged into the earth behind her. Another woman approached,…
She dug her toes into the dirt and raised her arms. As the wind struck her, she shivered; skin whorled and hardened into bark. Fingers lengthened and fractured into branches….
‘It’ll be simple,’ he said, voice barely shaking. ‘Run in, grab the treasure, run out.’ ‘What about the monsters?’ she replied. ‘What about the dragon?’ ‘Well … we’ll move too…
She stared hard into the enchanted pool, trying to recognise these new features. Smooth skin and tumbling curls, wide eyes with long lashes. A human face she had yearned for…
Every full moon, they locked their doors and shuttered windows. They barricaded, they barred, they held their children tight. And listened for the crystalline ringing of silver hooves. In the…
There is a boy who can read the birds. He throws crumbs to the town pigeons and in the pattern of their pecking, sees illness coming to his school. He…