by shukyou (主教) Flashbulbs exploded like fireworks as they stepped past the customs gate into the terminal, the happy reunited family. They’d gotten permission to take the Millers behind the scenes a little, past the point where those picking up arriving passengers were expected to wait, so that the reunion itself might take place away […]
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28
Oct
Returning
by Kuruma Ebi (車エビ) illustrated by beili There was something in the lake by Bleakhall House. This was common knowledge in Roxburghshire, whose visitors were often told stories of dark shapes moving under the surface of the lake, of witch-lights that appeared over its surface and unwitting guests who had fallen in, never to be […]
28
Oct
Heading Home
by Hyakunichisou 13 (百日草 十三) If it weren’t for work, Duncan would have been parked somewhere quiet on a night like this, tucked into his sleeping bag with a book and a mug of tea. The rain mottled the windshield between swipes of the wipers, and the glare of the van’s headlights made the downpour […]
28
Oct
How to Get Into the Krixin Resort
by juou no zan (女王のザン) “Oh shit,” Rirdan said. “The Krixin Resort is opening to the public for a week next month.” Devere leaned into the room from the galley. “Shit, really?” he asked. The Krixin Resort was always filled with rich idiots, which would be reason enough to hit it, but Devere’s old partner, […]
28
Oct
Cruorem Veritas
written and illustrated by Iron Eater Hugh had known for a very long time that the only thing he was capable of doing well was hurting people. Some gentlemen among his peers had only found this out when they started along the staggering, fawn-legged road that led from a boy’s years to manhood, but not […]
27
Aug
Good Morning
by shukyou (主教) Despite what his name might suggest, Moe wasn’t a joker. He didn’t always get comedy, and he had five good jokes memorized for social purposes, even though I wouldn’t have sworn he understood why their punchlines were funny. The rest of our friends and I generally left him out of our […]
27
Aug
Welcome to House Cherry
by TK Hoshikuzu (TK 星屑) Reputation Breakfast is an outdated meal, but it’s the hill that this damned school is determined to die on. Connor stares grumpily at the floor with his eyes half-closed, acknowledging no one as he trudges to the shower. It wakes him up, but a hot shower does not a […]
