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The Convent of AshesI. The spring of 1847 did not arrive in London so much as it was permitted to. The fog that clung to the Thames refused to lift, and the soot from a thousand factory chimneys turned the weak sunlight into a bruised yellow thing. Eleanor Ashworth stood at the window of her father's townhouse in Bloomsbury and watched the street below, where the carriages of the well-to-do rolled over...0 Comments 0 Shares 41 Views 0 Reviews
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The Joke of GeniusArthur Pendergast was a man of profound insignificance. He possessed no particular talent, no driving ambition, and a wardrobe consisting entirely of beige linen. His only skill was a natural, effortless ability to look deeply pensive while thinking about absolutely nothing. His ascent began at the Opening of the New York Avant-Garde Gallery. Arthur, having wandered in to escape a sudden...0 Comments 0 Shares 53 Views 0 Reviews
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The Black RemedyRain on the windows of my apartment sounded like someone trying to get in. I had been sitting in this room for three days without turning on the light, watching the neon sign from the bar across the street pulse through the water on the glass—open, closed, open, closed, like a heartbeat that could not decide whether it wanted to live or die. On the table in front of me was a manila envelope...0 Comments 0 Shares 64 Views 0 Reviews
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The Starlight RemedyThe basement smelled of earth and something sharper—dried leaves, crushed roots, the kind of scent that reminded Tommy of his grandmother's garden in County Kerry before the famine took it and left her with nothing but a notebook full of herbal recipes. Tommy O'Sullivan knelt on the concrete floor of his father's old basement laboratory, a copper pipe in one hand and a mortar and pestle in the...0 Comments 0 Shares 53 Views 0 Reviews
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Blood and HerbsThe house smelled of damp wood and something else—something sweet and earthy, the kind of scent that clings to curtains and never really leaves, no matter how many times you open the windows. Bell Thorne stood in the doorway of the library with the grandmother's herbal manuscript open in his hands, reading by the light of a single candle because the electricity had been out since the storm...0 Comments 0 Shares 28 Views 0 Reviews
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The Starlight StrategistI. The first time I heard Nathaniel Callahan speak, he was standing in front of forty people in Evelyn Vanderbilt's drawing room on Fifth Avenue, and the room was so quiet you could hear the ice melting in the glasses. He was thirty-two years old, lean in a way that suggested the war had not finished with him, and he spoke about a Chinese general who lived two thousand years before Christ. The...0 Comments 0 Shares 37 Views 0 Reviews
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Blood and StrategiesI. The Thorne plantation sat on a bend in the Pearl River like a man sitting on the edge of his bed, staring at the floor, knowing something is wrong but unable to name it. I came back in the spring of 1924, after living in Chicago for five years, because my aunt Eleanor asked me to manage the place. She was my mother's sister, and she was the only family I had left who cared whether I lived or...0 Comments 0 Shares 67 Views 0 Reviews
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The Pattern in the PrescriptionThe pattern appeared at 2:47 PM on a Tuesday, which Julian would later note with the obsessive precision of a man trying to anchor himself to facts because the alternative was admitting that his mind was no longer his own. He was standing at the dispensing counter of Meridian Pharmacy on Upper East Side, processing a routine prescription for lisinopril, when the pattern emerged—not as a visual...0 Comments 0 Shares 11 Views 0 Reviews
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The Observation Window**I** The fluorescent lights in Room 4 always flickered at a frequency that made Dr. Sarah Chen's molars ache. She'd complained to facilities three times. Nothing changed. She told herself it was because she'd developed a sensitivity, not because she was being neglected. "Dr. Chen?" the orderly said. "We've settled Mr. Wright in 4. He's quiet. Too quiet. No name on the intake form—he said it...0 Comments 0 Shares 48 Views 0 Reviews
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