Our main character is a young man named Brounan, black-haired and poor with no real family to speak of. He lives in a medieval fantasy setting, with a lot of different semi-religious cults. When people come of age they are expected to join/pledge their allegiance to a cult, and the choice is supposed to be entirely theirs, although of course just ( Read more... )

( Cut because... it's really gross. )

Central character a young girl- maybe ten or eleven? Dreamy, quiet, inclined to fairy tales and strangeness. Lives with her brother David (couple of years older) and mother. The scene opens with the three out for a walk along with mother’s boyfriend/previously separated or divorced husband? The two adults walk in the lead, while the siblings lag ( Read more... )

I had an incoherent, disconnected sort of dream that centered around our having adopted a little boy, roughly one year of age. The first section I remember clearly was a Christmas morning, our first with him. I had gotten the boy a toy train set, largely made of wood and with fairly large pieces that would be safe for him. There were a few smaller ( Read more... )