4:9 Hurrying to catch up with Dan the group ran out through the french-doors that opened onto a wide cobblestone porch. There, silhouetted against the high stone rail stood a woman with her foot perched about to flee down the stairs beyond. She was beautiful the way an orchid was, delicate and easily bruised. TheContinue reading “Enter The Woods 4:9”
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Enter The Woods 4:8
4:8 “No!” “Do it!” Sigh. “You got a plan?” “We have an idea!” Eye roll. “That’s not a plan.” “It’s all we’ve got!” “Your funeral!” Ben yelled, then muttered, “and mine,” then dashed away from the door, hard as he could, heading for the far side of the dance floor where the rest of theContinue reading “Enter The Woods 4:8”
Enter The Woods 4:7
4:7 The world shifted. One moment dark with a glowing tapestry stretching across the room, so wide you had to stand back to get a full view of it like that mural Guernica by Picasso. The next lit by candle-speckled crystal chandeliers that sent rainbows dancing across the black and white marble tiles set inContinue reading “Enter The Woods 4:7”
Enter The Woods 4:6
4:6 “Hear… Whoa!” Gwen reared back as a creature came skittering along the mass of threads, a dark spot against the glow. “Kim can you dim the fire a little so we can see that?” “Uh, I’ll try. How about I also step to the side to give you a better view.” Doing just thatContinue reading “Enter The Woods 4:6”
Enter The Woods 4:5
4:5 “Prairie!” Ivan tried to snag Prairie’s arm but she lyrically danced under his hand and stepped through the dark opening and into the next room. Ivan rolled his eyes to the ceiling then sheathed his sword in his back holster and followed her. “Oh.” Prairie said, a note of wonder in her voice “Uh.”Continue reading “Enter The Woods 4:5”
Enter The Woods 4:4
4:4 There was a slight sliver of darkness along the door frame where the door didn’t quite meet the wall. “Looks like it might be open,” Ben announced as he cut a path through the overgrown herbs. “That isn’t unnerving at all,” Gwen muttered to Kim who shrugged. “Because this whole thing has been sunshineContinue reading “Enter The Woods 4:4”
Enter The Woods 4:3
4:3 Outside the pub weapons and supplies were assessed and determinations were made to the adequacy of such. None of them walked around without being at least seventy percent prepared to draw down. It was just that kind of world. And with the weirdness they’d been experiencing recently that number had bumped closer to theContinue reading “Enter The Woods 4:3”
Enter The Woods 4:2 – Act Two
“What I want to know,” Jake Rosenthal broke into the silence that followed Siobhan’s reading in which each member of the crew was digesting and assessing the words from their own perspective, “is what the fuck,” the vulgarity coming from the polished man was a revelation, a glimpse at the man whose fingers had heldContinue reading “Enter The Woods 4:2 – Act Two”
Enter The Woods 4:2 – Interlude – Diana
Diana Diana sits back in the specially designed chair that her best friend, Raina, has insisted she have her husband, Jake, get for her. Because “Honey, if he’s going to have me over here primping you all the time to go out to all these fancy functions with their fancy people then you are goingContinue reading “Enter The Woods 4:2 – Interlude – Diana”
Enter The Woods 4:2 – Act One
4:2 – Act One “So, how are you at puzzles?” Ben threw a die at Kim as Patti gave her a confused look at the theoretically out-of-left-field question. Kim caught it in the air, smiled, and tossed it back. “Sorry,” she said to Patti. “Inside joke.” “We need Patti,” Siobhan said, pulling up a chairContinue reading “Enter The Woods 4:2 – Act One”
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