On the Origins of Common Foods
Flying on a plane is very nice. It is not as nice as wings. But it has more peanuts. Unless you are a peanut elemental, spreading great peanut-pattern wings. Then the peanuts of a plane are...
View ArticleWhy is Six Afraid of Seven? (VI/VII)
Melanie grows up with awful, breakneck speed. In 1979 she is seven. Almost she stops there. Almost she gives up—entangled as she is in the soot-web of a spider—and stops aging forevermore, choosing...
View ArticleA Study in Entanglement (VII/VII)
“I can’t,” Liril says. “I can’t, Melanie, not you, never you, not you.” [The Frog and the Thorn – PROLOGUE] 1982 CE And be free, at last, of the web that is the world— And be more— And Melanie is...
View ArticleForsaken of their Gods (II/III)
Now it was always Billy’s conception that he should be as God to Melanie: that she should know him as a person knows their God, absolute, primal, preceding all other things in his authority, and at...
View ArticleScarab All-a-Fulminatin’, Explody & Oh Shi— (I/I)
Video: The warhead strikes Central. It explodes! The explosion freezes. The scarab beetle catches it. It begins to roll up the explosion into a clever little ball. The picture freezes. “This,” the...
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