Dark Fantasy

Brothers

Selfran and Seldard were of the same womb. They came into the world on the same day and within the same hour. It was a hard birth, but it did [...]

And the Raindrops—Its Tears

Long before her blindness, his mother, like all mothers, preached of the safety beneath umbrellas. Now the way she insisted on hers, though she could not see, reaching for it [...]

What Uncle Howard Did

Uncle Howard didn’t even bother to hide the door in the cellar. I mean, how many visitors could he have had way up there in the hills, surrounded by No [...]

Father

…and on that prodigious day, the day of His return, He will come for me, and we shall reign like a virulent black storm over this place. We will be [...]

Private Land

“It doesn’t look like much,” Clark said, squinting, one hand shading his eyes. “Anyway. Not much. Surely the owner wouldn’t mind?”
Lochinvar Luck and Shandy were certainly eager to try it; [...]

Possession

He lies swollen and still, his body curled beneath the sheets, breath hitching like there’s a roadblock somewhere in the back of his throat. She wants to turn the [...]