Weird Fiction for the Bold
The evening sky fades to navy. Venus hangs low on the Eastern horizon and Sagittarius spreads above it, barely visible in the gloaming. The breeze is cool and dry and carries a hint of woodsmoke from somewhere out of sight. It ruffles the young man’s black hair, which shoots askew from his pale scalp, swinging…
I HANDED QUEEN CYNDRA her goblet and stepped back, my eyes demurely downcast. She didn’t spare me a glance and never had. As assistant to the apprentice cupbearer, I was invisible in a royal court filled with advisors, courtiers, and clerks all squabbling to be seen. I floated from the shadows when my duty required…
THE SUN WAS A DIME in the white pan of the sky. Angel’s lips rustled together like tissue paper, reminding her wildly of the moment she pulled the wedding dress from its package in the dusty post office in Eureka. That had been four weeks and a lifetime ago. It had been a creamy white…