Sophie July 16, 20117 3:24 PM Sophie’s feet dragged across the floor as she was taken to the principal’s office. The problem was simple and obvious, a boy (who she called, jerk) with a bloody mouth crying to his mother in the nurse’s office. And all the while she was dragged, she was told to pity him and to repent …

Havenbrook July 16th, 2017 1:02 AM Apollo reached into his pocket for the red stone. He had taken a bite before, only a small nibble. He thought to share it with Dion, but seeing it pulse in his hand had made his stomach grumble. The rough feeling, chalky, stone. He bit, it felt like granite on his palate before it …

Apollo July 16th, 2017 12:34 AM   Was it time? A distant sound of gunshots. A few bangs. Then silence. So it was. The first thought that came to Apollo’s mind was the image of bloody and dead Dion. But then he heard the radio transmission and the dismal sound of a tired Dion. He was alive, exasperated and low, …

Vicars July 16th, 2017 12:25 AM Oh, the stars would fall tonight. They stood in their rented apartment room but could not fit themselves in it quite yet. For the last few hours they had been in a fumble of fear. They sat around the kitchen table, below the low hanging spinning lights, hand out as they watched the pulse …

Vicars July 15th, 2017 9:02 PM They had worked well into the day digging graves and were just now finishing. A woman and her child stopped, further from them on a brick road, to look at the pile of ever growing dirt and the two men whose rolled sleeves showed their sweaty skin. One Hispanic, the other Asian. Her eyes …

Jeremiah July 15th, 2017 9:37 PM Officer Jeremiah came out of the house holding his pants and trying to finish the belt around his waist. He was smiling. Nearly glowing and behind him you could see a young woman with her hair still messy from a supposed wild ten minutes that really were, just seven. Jeremiah was a thin man, …

Apollo July 15th, 2017 5:12 PM “Does he have a name?” Dion asked. “It doesn’t matter. He’s just the Priest. Might be the only real one left too.” Apollo took two steps into the church courtyard and already a shudder came upon his shoulders. It was the first time in a while since he had that visceral gut reaction like …

Alestor July 15th, 2017 3:15 PM It was only a few minutes into the murder and John Alestor was already interrupted. It was a knocking that came from his front door, a familiar tempo. He rose and stood in his dripping sweat, felt it collect on his collar. He set down the tender fish bone blade on a table adjacent …

Sophie July 15th, 2017 12:34 PM Mr. Molyneaux heard the whimper of the door as it opened but saw no one come through. He sat behind the counter with his glazed eyes and adjusted his glasses to correct the confusion. No one walked through, he assured himself. But there was a thud. Somewhere in the many aisles of his small …

Vicars July 15th, 2017 10:04 AM The most peculiar thing about the nineteen-ninety-four Volkswagon was not the two demon hunters driving it, Vicars as they’re called. Nor was it the zooming eighty miles an hour pace they were working it to. Nor was it the incoming image of Havenbrook that superimposed itself on the front glass, that little gritty town …