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The House of DustThe Blackwood estate did not just sit on the land of the American South; it seemed to be sinking into it. The columns were cracked, the ivy had strangled the balconies, and the air always tasted of damp earth and old secrets. Colonel Silas Blackwood, the last of his line, lived in the center of this decay, a man who clung to the ghost of a Southern aristocracy that had died a century ago. Beau,...0 Comments 0 Shares 32 Views 0 Reviews
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Blood and MagnoliasMagnolia Hall did not so much stand on the land as lean against it, the way a dying person leans against a wall that will not hold them. The porch sagged on its left side, where the pillars had rotted from the inside out, swollen with moisture and then collapsed, leaving the veranda to tilt like a ship taking on water. The magnolia trees that gave the estate its name had grown wild and tangled,...0 Comments 0 Shares 42 Views 0 Reviews
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Blood and MagnoliasThe Spanish moss hanging from the live oaks along Cypress Lane did not sway so much as it hung, like laundry left to dry on a line that had not been pulled in thirty years. Bell Thorne stood on the porch of the house that had been her family's for four generations and watched the rain fall in sheets that turned the dirt road into a river, and she thought about how water, left long enough, could...0 Comments 0 Shares 22 Views 0 Reviews
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The Water LineI. The water was at my knees when I realized I was alone. That was the first thing. Not the storm, not the flood, not the fact that Manhattan was drowning. The first thing was the silence. No radio. No phone. No voice on the other end of anything. Just the sound of water moving through concrete tunnels and my own breathing, which sounded too loud in the empty dark. My name is Nick Delaney. I am...0 Comments 0 Shares 52 Views 0 Reviews
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The Mirror in the Mud## Act I: The Outset The Georgia coast in 1866 was a place of humid decay, where the air felt like a wet shroud and the scent of rotting jasmine hung heavy over the ruins of the plantation. Silas walked through the tall grass, his boots sinking into the black mud. He was a man of forty, a former Confederate cavalryman who had survived the war only to find that he had no place in the peace. He...0 Comments 0 Shares 33 Views 0 Reviews
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The Edge of KnowingI. I woke in darkness. The water was at my waist and the walls were concrete and I did not know where I was. My name—no. I do not know my name. I know I am a doctor. A psychologist. I treat trauma. Post-traumatic stress. I sit in a chair and listen to people tell me about the things that broke them and then I try to put them back together. The water was cold. It moved slowly, like something...0 Comments 0 Shares 56 Views 0 Reviews
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The Keeper of Forgotten TomorrowsI. The fog came in off the Thames like a living thing, pressing itself against the leaded windows of Blackwood House as though it knew something was dying inside. I stood at the glass and watched it consume the gas lamps on Belgrave Street, one by one, until the world outside ceased to exist. Inside, the house was the same as it had been for three generations—dark wood, heavier silence, and the...0 Comments 0 Shares 23 Views 0 Reviews
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The Starlight Protocol**Manhattan, 1924** The conference hall at the Plaza Hotel smelled of cigarette smoke and expensive perfume. Thomas Webb sat in the back row, half-listening to a professor from Princeton drone on about the thermodynamic implications of stellar evolution. Thomas was thirty-two, a sociology lecturer at Yale, and he had learned long ago that the most effective way to survive an academic conference...0 Comments 0 Shares 45 Views 0 Reviews
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The Harvesters from Proxima**Oak Bend, Mississippi, 1898** The house was dying. Not all at once, as houses do in stories, but slowly, inch by inch, the way a person dies when the illness lingers and the family learns to live around the hollow places. The paint peeled from the porch columns like sunburned skin. The gardens had grown wild, roses tangled with ivy, magnolia trees casting long shadows over grass that nobody...0 Comments 0 Shares 27 Views 0 Reviews
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