Category Archives: stories

Fascinated, you observe the ship for some time. Lost in the starry black above and below, it’s heaving closer to the shore to the left. But although the binoculars lend a fiction of closeness, the galleon is still far shore, … Continue reading →

You rise to your feet and close the trapdoor. The house is really just a room with four walls. The wall closest to you has an unglazed window. Circling the central bole clockwise, you learn that the only other window, … Continue reading →

The meadow is surrounded by trees. But in the middle there stands a lone oak, its thick trunk like a tower shooting up into the sky, and its lower boughs laden with deep-green leaves and bending softly down. You reach … Continue reading →

I.You walk through the shadowy woods, searching.A craggy mountain range rears up.Your feet take you to the mouth of a dark cave.Hesitating only slightly, you walk into the darkness.But before long, the dark gives way to twinkling lights.Natural crystals jut … Continue reading →