Category Archives: fiction
The Dream’s End
“Sometimes I dream of flying.” When Pike was seven, his sister almost died. She was two years older than him and what the adults called “special” when they thought no children were paying attention. Her name was Butterfly and to … Continue reading
The Imitated Rose
“There is a certain someone already,” he said. He had given his name as Aoi, though it was not the same name that he gave to clients during the day; there was a blue rose in his jacket lapel. “I … Continue reading
Solitary Hide And Seek
One, two, are you ready yet? The snow is beginning to fall. There is a thick blanket of it already, deep enough to leave footsteps. The sound of a single boy’s voice echoes but is muffled through the white. It … Continue reading
true story
The story goes something like this: if you listen closely right at midnight, you can hear a voice wailing in the woods. It’s quiet, often lost under the rustle and creak of the night itself, but it’s there. It’s a … Continue reading
The Disappearence of Granny Winter
There once lived an old woman who was so very old that none remembered her name. They called her Granny Winter, because her eyes were the color of water under ice, and her hair was the pure white of newly … Continue reading
il carnevale
i. a skeleton of words Once upon a time (he says, his voice lowered to a murmur, for that is the proper way to start a story) there was a circus. It traveled from village to village and brought happiness … Continue reading
in the name of the king
The smell of blood is heavy in the air–the taste of it is metallic on Haruki’s tongue each time he breathes in. If he looks down, he can see the young woman who’d tried to stab him to escape from … Continue reading
Cendrillon
The clock-tower struck midnight in slow, steady beats. She counted them with the beats of his heart: one … two … three … She needed to leave. Someone was bound to come looking, more likely sooner than later, and if … Continue reading
All In Fire
When he returned from Kyoto he found Suzaku waiting. Perched on the edge of a rock that had not been there before he left, her scarlet robes fluttering in the breeze, she sat with hooded eyes and tense shoulders. Touda … Continue reading
Running Out
cowritten with Harukami Youko hung up the last bit of laundry and watched thoughtfully as Kantarou slowly entered the house again, giving her an absent-minded smile and wave as he went in. His knees were creaking audibly enough that she … Continue reading
HaruKan 20 :: 08. shikkoku no hane [black wings]
The fireworks were already starting, though the sun was still low in the sky. Haruka watched them from his rooftop perch, rising and exploding in tiny colorful pinpricks of light. When the ladder clacked against the edge of the roof, … Continue reading
The More Things Change
written with Harukami The worst part, Kantarou thought, was knowing that he wasn’t the only one interested. He’d seen Haruka watching him a number of times, always looking vaguely thoughtful and never breaking eye-contact whenever Kantarou caught him at it. … Continue reading
Birthday Mathoms — 2010
“Be careful of how much time you spend with that Nightray boy,” her nurse clucks as she fixes the last ribbon in Ada’s hair. “He’s a strange one–his brother might have been all right, but he’s no longer one of … Continue reading
