Speculative Fiction. The Needle at the Comet’s End At the end of the monastery’s eastern nave, where the stone walls opened onto a sky without depth, Sister Anja kept her needles in a case lined with salt. She was a seamstress, though the sisters preferred to say she mended...
Historical Fantasy. Letters Beneath the Iron Snow On the morning the future stopped writing, Mara Venn found three letters beneath the monastery’s kitchen door. They had arrived by bicycle. Not through the post road, but through a narrow passage in the old city wall that had...
Mythic Fiction. The Bells Below the Monastery Nima made bells in the monastery carved into the comet, where every corridor sloped toward an absent sea. The monks worked in a blue chamber at the heart of the stone, bending silver, sand, and strange sea-glass green metal into...
Folk Horror. The Last Warm Place Mara had lived in the monastery for seventeen winters, and in all that time no one had ever asked where it was. The monastery was carved into the tail of a comet that had come to rest behind the northern mountains, its black stone threaded with...
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