| 21  0  0   
 | “Talk is breaking many rules, but listening is holy,” he said last night when he sawed me in half but didn’t. | 
		
		
			| 3079  0  0   
 | The place is a living rebirth,
                                                And all death is only temporary.
                                                For soon in the land, the soil,
                                                For soon in  | 
		
		
			| 1771  5  2   
 | You’re mad as a hatter she said. Eons, eras of epochal proportions go by before you call me. I said recalibrate your linear thinking, incubator baby. I whispered permutations of wonder, told her secrets only the sufis know. We ate French goat cheese lac | 
		
		
			| 2004  5  3   
 | He blew out the candle. There was the tang of candle smoke, scattered by a sudden rush of wings, and the immediacy of another breathing thing in the dark. I heard the birdcage open, and the bird fluttering in there without crying out.  | 
		
		
			| 1906  0  0   
 | Once upon a time a queen was blessed with twin sons, which she named Nosch and Amiaivel. | 
		
		
			| 28  6  3   
 |            And so, almost as an afterthought, what  with the attempted murder, the actual murder, the ecstasy and despair of  salvation lost, gained, then lost once more, and Juanita --O Juanita!--the miserable, sick, drinking years… | 
		
		
			| 112  6  3   
 | The old man had always known things, was feared and revered up and down the valley for knowing things. I’d heard the stories since the day I was born. | 
		
		
			| 148  4  2   
 | The judge looked at Darren and frowned. But just as His Honor was about to speak, a man entered the room through a door behind the bench, approached the judge, and bent to whisper in his ear. | 
		
		
			| 1530  3  0   
 | Something reached into Avi and took his voice, turning his volume to zero....
A short story of one day. A man going to work, a little magic, a car crash, and a wedding. | 
		
		
			| 1314  1  1   
 | The dance draws deeper
whirling witches weaving rhymes
The fire spits fierce in the falling rain
soon the spell will spill from secret times | 
		
		
			| 1614  0  0   
 | Lean closer, she smiles, smell my perfume let yourself be taken to a wild forest where owls grow and trees fly. 
 | 
		
		
			| 1234  1  0   
 | So into the woods we went, hoping to open a portal into the netherworld of make believe. I had a feeling we would see nothing, but she believed in me. At the very least I would spend a few very nice days backpacking in the wilderness.  | 
		
		
			| 1286  0  0   
 | Even the old medicine woman seemed to grin with a perverted sort of understanding when she opened the door to find Lys waiting outside. She was comfortable nowhere and ready to flee at any moment. | 
		
		
			| 1889  12  5   
 | He now knew the impossible to be possible. | 
		
		
			| 1696  1  1   
 | The tiles begin inching toward him as soon as he moves. You've seen filings on glass. He's the magnet on the underside. |