by Wakahisa Rei (若久零) illustrated by The Winter Cynic His memories were already fading. They were always stark in the first moments after waking – every scent (iron, flesh, sweat), every sound (screams, cracking, thudding) and every sight (horrified eyes, bodies, the full moon). Then, nothing. He’d get up, still dizzy from the change, […]
Category Archives: Text
16
Dec
Local Flavor
written and illustrated by Ptarmigan The summer in Minnelaskwa’s Iron Valley has finally come to its merciful end, where the weather transitions from ‘hot enough to where it’s only tolerable to sit around the house drunk in your underwear’ to ‘cool enough to sit around the house drunk in your underwear and an open flannel […]
16
Dec
Knickpoint
written and illustrated by Iron Eater Year’s End was just around the corner, which of course meant as many things that could be a pain in Riaag’s ass as possible were choosing to do so. The current focus of his ire was an issue with one of the new grain-storage buildings they’d built just before […]
16
Dec
Just Seven Days
by Hyakunichisou 13 (百日草 十三) We’re gonna pop some cherries tonight The way Greg would tell the story in later years, the moment he saw Tim Curry in a corset and torn stockings was the moment everything became clear. At the time, though, it felt like everything had just gotten way more complicated. Because, okay, […]
28
Oct
The Cuckoo
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 […]
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
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 […]
27
Aug
A Wild Call and a Clear Call
by Okō Hiram Kalloway joined the Royal Navy at the late age of thirteen, his mother having insisted on his remaining home until that age in order to gain some additional polish. His father, Samuel Kalloway, had gone to sea at the age of nine, moving up in the captain’s list year by year […]
27
Aug
The Number Pi
by Hyakunichisou 13 (百日草 十三) The shelves behind the bar were crenellated with bottles, crystal decanters of liquid amber and jewels. Adam sipped his ginger ale, the condensation from his glass numbing his hand. Around him, people wearing suits that they probably thought of as investments in their careers were waving down the bartender, […]
30
Jul
Dreams come true at the Velvet Rose
by Hyakunichisou 13 (百日草 十三) Infrastructure. It’s all the stuff you don’t think about, the stuff that works until it doesn’t, and then your tube of personal lubricant turns out to be full of toothpaste or you end up knee-deep in chocolate milkshake. That’s not the fun kind of surprise, and it’s not a random […]
30
Jul
V Zoni
by Himawari (ヒマワリ) It’s a delight to come home to the flat and find Serhiy’s dick in Lyudmila’s mouth. I had been exhausted, coming up the stairs, but I started getting hard just hearing Serhiy’s voice groaning from the other side of the door, as I was fumbling for the door handle in the darkened hallway. […]
30
Jul
Werewithal
written and illustrated by Iron Eater Warren lay sprawled on Brad’s couch, sipping a chilled bottle of no-name cola and loathing the Tucson heat with every fiber of his being. He liked visiting Brad, he really did, but the thing that so far had tried their relationship far beyond the distance between them was just […]
