Category Archives: Urban Fantasy

9:4 When Dan said stay on the path, Patti listened. Guy hadn’t been wrong so far on these things. Made sense. Stay on the path. Don’t go into the dark. Here be monsters.   But, here’s the thing with being responsible for something smaller and more vulnerable than you, whether it was a kid, a dogContinue reading “Enter the Woods – 9:4”

9:3 So, they went to The House. As if, after Dempsey’s cards’ “tricks” they could do anything else. Well, they *could* have. Maybe smart people *would* have. People with some sense of self-preservation that outweighed their commitment or determination or pride. People who valued their physical well-being over their emotional one. Normal people. Nothing wrongContinue reading “Enter the Woods – 9:3”

9:2 Despite Leo’s being, well, Leo’s with the Setback crew shouting at something someone was doing that was probably dramatic and over the top and likely involved setting something on fire or flushing it down the toilet or whatever and the quiet plunk, plunk, plunk of someone idly playing with the keys on the pianoContinue reading “Enter the Woods – 9:2”

* Interlude – Roanne *  She’s walked this path at least a hundred times, maybe a thousand, the path to her Granny’s house. For the first time. though, she’s doing it in the almost-dark. She’d meant to come earlier but a book distracted her with its captured story calling to her to release it intoContinue reading “Enter the Woods – 9 – Interlude – Roanne”

9:1 Picture in your mind a quintessential pub. A picturesque pub. Charming. Classic. Quaint. Pick your synonym. Plop it on a city street corner, fronting a sidewalk of paving stones, with a door set flush, squaring off the corner of the building, slap a flower box painted white, overflowing with green foliage and red flowers,Continue reading “Enter the Woods – 9:1”