Rain
“What a question. To ask if it would all be over, if you would be welcomed and embraced, if the depths were really as pure as the sun made them seem or as dark as the rain whispered.”
A Song of Silence for the Mother of Grendel
“What honor is there to be had when your title is ‘Monster?’”
Read MoreThe Sea Bride
“The ocean breathed against the rocks, and I took my first step toward the door. Toward the shore. Toward whatever awaited me in the dark.”
Read MoreThe Drowning of Loki
“Another child, another loss. Another testament to my mistakes and all I could not do.”
Read MorePhantom of the Brine
“He was enthralled by the mere shadow of the unearthly being, who had tugged at the folds of his heart and drew him up out of the mouth of the sea, whose face he had hardly seen.”
Read MoreUnder the Water of the Lake
“But it was more than the chill of his skin and the strange way he was talking, it was his smell too that triggered something deep in me. He smelled not of sweat, as I might’ve expected, but of the lake, of the reeds and mud.”
Read MoreA Meeting at a Fountain in Fez
“None of our friends or family are going to be able to think about Morocco the same way after this. They’ll always think of it as that exotic, dangerous place where you went missing.”
Read MoreThe Death of the Angel Prince
“I’d waged war against my Father because I was a child, and I was losing Him to Adam. I would rather be a rebel than a faithful son unloved.”
Read MoreThe Painter
“But what they knew not of was that this was not an evil of divine scale. This was one manufactured by society. And one that hid in the crevice of its incompetence at catching it.”
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