417: Defensive Posturing
In Which, Hey, Lee’s Got To Make A Living. He’s Getting Married, Remember? It was at least thirty minutes from the time Lee got to the Crystal Palace until he came to the restaurant. We didn’t talk...
View Article418: Out Of Depths
In Which Gladys Does Not Appear The east end of campus, by the union and the pent and especially the cordoned-off fountain, were crawling with cops and men in gray suits and robes. Further in, the...
View Article419: Mark Of A Paladin
In Which Scripture Is Used As A Weapon “Say that again, Lee?” I said, hoping I’d misheard him somehow. I must have… I had to have heard him wrong. My grandmother was hundreds of miles away. She’d shown...
View Article420: Brimstone?
In Which… Oh, Shit. Martha’s Here. My insides turned to ice at the sound of her voice. I felt paralyzed, like the way it feels sometimes when you wake up too quickly from too deep a sleep. My throat...
View Article421: Q & A
In Which Gloves Come Off The plaza in front of the admin building that had been packed with students during my ordeal in the labyrinth was now being used as a parking lot. There was a jumble of black...
View Article422: Speculative Fiction
In Which Mackenzie Gets Between Amaranth’s Legs Lee actually got a couple of campus guards to walk back with us to Harlowe, to prevent any “harassment”, as he called it. It was kind of weird to have...
View Article428: Transitioning
Author’s Note: I’ll be hanging out at Port City Java on Potomac Street in Hagerstown, Maryland from 2:00-4:30 this coming Sunday. All are welcome for hanging/chilling. In Which Life Goes On If the day...
View Article432: Offering Advice
In Which A Popular Suspect Is Ruled Out Snuggling in bed with Steff, I learned a couple things… a pair of complementary lessons, I supposed. The first was that just because you loved someone didn’t...
View Article449: Muted Calls
In Which Mackenzie Is Silenced Asking Two why she hadn’t told me about the mirror would be fruitless, I quickly realized. The answer might be as simple as the fact that no one had told her to or as...
View Article484: The Pajama Game
In Which Dee Changes For The Better I became incredibly grateful to Steff for her idea of the endless pajama party when she started to explain it to the others. It wasn’t like we made a whole pretense...
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