Chariot's Wheels - Fiction

"And but one word with one of us? couple it with
something; make it a word and a blow."

-Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet

"There seems little point in practicing magic unless you want to do at least a few extraordinary things with this incarnation."

-Peter J Carroll, The Octavo

Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.

-Harry Dresden, Turn Coat

The starry-eyed idealists of today have submerged their critical faculties beneath a tidal wave of slop marketed by those old hippies who now sell a user-friendly dilution of their original enlightenment.

-Peter J Caroll, Psybermagick

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

-Helena, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Behind the clock back there you know
At the four winds bar

-Blue Öyster Cult, Astronomy

"Offering's a complicated business."

-Jake Stratton-Kent

"Only fluffy bunnies need apply."
-Jake Stratton-Kent

"If you want the win, stay civil and stand in your invincibility."
-Gordon White, Rune Soup

Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a time, now isn’t then. - Ursula K. le Guin

Fiction

“Ghoul.”

Jimmy didn’t shout, cool under pressure. I didn’t turn as I raised the shotgun. The ghoul launched itself from beside an oversized headstone.

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WHAM!

That hurt.

Another one like that and my shield wasn't going to hold. Firelight gleamed off its raw, insideout flesh

as the demon took a step back and seemed to be catching its breath. Great; just great.

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The look on her face as she came out from under the drugs said more than words possibly could.

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“Lamoreaux? Where are you?” The kid whispered into the dark.

“Over here,” Lamoureaux whispered back.

The kid, what was his name? Sawyer... no, not Tom; Bill. That was it, Bill Sawyer. Bill crept over to Lamoreaux.

“What are you doing?”

“Hiding, like you should be.”

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I never expected to become a father at 42.

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