The ship sailed in out of the fog, and the sailors on the port gaped at it. Never had they seen a craft so tall and strong, as tall as two city buildings stacked on top of each other, a weird green iridescence flowing over it's surface. They'd been going about their business all steady and normal-like, but at the sight, a serious breakdown in order ( Read more... )

She sucked her stomach in as she leaned across the desk and shook his hand. Not a good idea to have the parasite be visible in the first job interview. A little glimpse of tentacles and suddenly her amazing filing skills and 10 years of experience in the supernatural mortgage industry didn't matter at all. It wasn't fair--after all, inspecting an ( Read more... )

He had mud on his face. He sat in his house, his civilized modern architecture house iwht its open windows and cantilevered ceiling, and he kept touching his face. The mud was red. It wasn't because of the dirt in the area. It was the blood of his wife. She had bled--so much. He'd smashed the--the thing back off the cliff into the sea, but his wife ( Read more... )

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The moray eels were thick in the waters when the new man came into the town. It was an omen, she came to believe later. The fishermen came back with stories of pulling up nets filled with nothing but eels. There were not so many people willing to buy eels, so after they realized that they had enough to feed themselves and their families, to ( Read more... )

The pentagram was easy to spot. They hadn't even tried to hide it this time. She'd spotted them shaved into cows, painted on the back of paintings, and worked into elaborate ironmongery. She hadn't seen many that were painted on barns plain as day. Maybe the wreath around it might have fooled some into thinking it was a hex sign, but she could ( Read more... )