Paranormal Fossicking

There’s no shadowy government agency that’s brought in to deal with this, it’s just me, one man out of his depth and a a few “experts” who have all never seen the other side of a computer. If I could call up someone qualified I would…I had, but the yellow pages sort of runs out … Continue reading Paranormal Fossicking →

The Absent Wind

The wind had left us. The Earth, halted in its celestial arc, sighs, knowing that memory will be trapped in the hollowness of this new absence.It once walked with us, this gentle wind; through sprawling history and as far as time can unwind upon itself, the wind has played parts in both mundane and monolithic. … Continue reading The Absent Wind →

Damn These Technological Pinecones

'Go for a flight Icarus, it's a beautiful sunny day.' The steady thump of metal upon a different kind of metal reverberated through the small backyard somewhere in the outskirts of Brisbane. Strewn across the anhydrously curated back garden were tools, scraps of metal, and enough lost bolts to restock a bolt factory. In a … Continue reading Damn These Technological Pinecones →

Grimm

In a study, laden with dust and covered by the collected papers of countless of lifetimes, two strangers had met for the first time and, after moving past the polite amount of small talk, were now regarding each other with a protracted silence.A bookshelf of neatly stacked jars softly flickered their firelight into the study … Continue reading Grimm →

We Shot the Moon

‘Well, it’s a bit of a problem,’ Adah began, abruptly coughing her words in an attempt to dislodge the knot of toast that still dwelt at the back of her throat from breakfast.It was hot, the struggling air conditioner had suddenly become a drone of irritating voicelessness and as forty eyes from a collective twenty … Continue reading We Shot the Moon →