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Four Rooms Where the Dead Still SpeakThe house on Mulholland Drive had four rooms that mattered. The kitchen, where Arthur Callahan took his meals alone and spoke to no one. The bedroom, where Eleanor's mother had slept for thirty-one years and where her side of the bed still held the shape of her absence like a photograph developed in grief. The living room, where Eleanor sat on Sunday afternoons and tried to make her father talk...0 Comments 0 Shares 4 Views 0 Reviews
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The Man Who Fed the NeedleThe Man Who Fed the Needle The machine was loud. That was the first thing Joyce noticed every morning. The second thing was her knees. The third thing was the forelady, who was loud regardless of machine volume. "Marlowe," the forelady said. "You're threading too slow. I can hear you thinking. Stop thinking and thread." Joyce threaded. The needle went in. The needle came out. The needle went in...0 Comments 0 Shares 3 Views 0 Reviews
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The Wall Beyond the DawnThe fog came down the valley like a living thing, thick and yellow and smelling of coal smoke and wet stone. Thomas Blackwood stood at the edge of it and looked at the wall. It had been there seven years now, though no one called it that anymore. It was the Quarantine Barrier. It was the Great Separation. It was the thing that divided the living from the dying, the clean from the infected, the...0 Comments 0 Shares 3 Views 0 Reviews
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The Last Man in DetroitBilly woke up at seven. The apartment was cold. The power had been off for two weeks. He sat on the edge of the mattress, swung his legs over the side, and drank the beer that had been open since yesterday. It was warm and flat and tasted like metal. He did not care. The apartment was in Corktown. Or it had been Corktown once. Now it was just a building with broken windows and graffiti on the...0 Comments 0 Shares 2 Views 0 Reviews
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The Major Who Would Only Bow to the DeadAntietam, September 17, 1862. The field was a graveyard before the sun went down. Ethan Caldwell stood on the ridge above the cornfield and watched his regiment—the 24th Michigan—charge into a valley full of Confederate artillery. He had told them it would be quick. He had told them the guns had been moved. He had lied. The guns had not been moved. The first wave went down in thirty seconds....0 Comments 0 Shares 2 Views 0 Reviews
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The Last Gamble in ParisThe jazz played too loud in the cellar on Rue Mouffetard, which was ironic because the people who needed it most—the Americans who'd come to Paris to forget what they'd seen in the Argonne and the Marne and the Somme—couldn't hear it over their own conversations. They talked in circles. They talked about nothing. They talked about everything except what they'd actually come to talk about, which...0 Comments 0 Shares 2 Views 0 Reviews
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The Fisherman's CatchThe fog had been coming off the Thames all evening, the kind of thick yellow fog that pressed against the windowpanes like a living thing. Thomas Finch stood on the dock at Wapping and watched it swallow the masts of his six smacks one by one, from the largest at the far end to the little one he'd named after his mother.Six boats. Six months of saving, six months of his father working double...0 Comments 0 Shares 8 Views 0 Reviews
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The Silent Observatory - V1: Victorian Scientific GothicVariant I: Victorian Scientific Gothic ACT I From the recovered diary of Arthur Penhaligon Blackwood, kept in a morocco-bound volume now mostly destroyed. The following entries are transcribed from fragments preserved by the Royal Society archives, MSS Blackwood 85818. 15 October 1888 The great refractor has given me something tonight I cannot yet name. I tell myself it is mere interference—the...0 Comments 0 Shares 1 Views 0 Reviews
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The Stitcher of 4th AvenueThe Stitcher of 4th Avenue The man called at six in the evening on a Thursday, which was already a mistake because that was dinner time, and at seven a mistake because that was when the L train started rumbling through the building and nothing sounded right anymore. "Are you the stitcher?" he asked, standing in Maggie's doorway with a garment bag that cost more than her monthly rent. Maggie...0 Comments 0 Shares 9 Views 0 Reviews
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