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Beside Calais

March 6, 2022

The hills that bordered the École Aéronautique were covered in long grass, and as they dipped to the sea the blades dispersed through the tawny sand, which in turn fingered out into grey water. The slopes were still bright with new growth. Three or four hundred meters away from the school, short of where the smooth coast fractured into cliffs, a small flock of éoles grazed. They were among the smallest of the flying beasts, but each was at least the size of a full-grown bull, and in places they had stripped away the green grass.

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Five Ways Jane Austen Never Died

March 6, 2022

“Fly! It’s beautiful, Fly!”

Captain Frank Austen smiled at his sister, for she was beaming at him and paid the little statue in her hand no mind at all.

“You might look at it at least, Jane,” he teased. “It cost me a pretty penny in the Shanghai marketplace.”

“Oh—of course—yes…” She looked at the intricately carved figure and smiled. It was a year and more since Frank had sailed to the South Seas, and his white teeth in his sunburned face were strange and wonderful to her.

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Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Stage Four

March 2, 2022

On the beach across the street from the liquor store that’s down the road from the clinic,
A bicycle rusts, bent almost in half

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The game of cat and rabbit

December 21, 2021

Here’s the secret at the center of the maze,
here’s the pebble in the dirt-drawn circle

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The House of Forever: Selected Poems

The House of Forever

A collection of 21 time-bending poems, nine never before published

Dawnbringer

Dawnbringer Cover

A Forgotten Realms® book. Dawnbringer is a meld of classic and contemporary fantasy, with shades of Romeo and Juliet, told from the perspective of guardian angels in a world where sorcery and monsters are commonplace.

Dawnbringer

Ravenloft: Dominion, Book 1: Heaven's Bones skillfully blends horror and steampunk and classic Victorian literary style into something exotic and fascinating.

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