Author
Andrew Kaye
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Waiting in the Weeds
Ambrose had pressed another bulb into the freshly turned soil when the ground shuddered and sent a fresh ache through his gnarled fingers. The heliocentric dome of tinted glass that covered the palace's garden rattled overhead, and the cries of soldiers on the outermost walls…
The Nixie Revels
When Mom died, I inherited my childhood home. I have good memories attached to the place: fairy tales and Saturday morning cartoons, tea parties and lightsaber duels. In those days the house felt like a castle, and I imagined dragons in the cellar and elves in the ceiling and…
Items Found in the Pocket of a God Who Abandoned His People
Item 1: Darkness. Item 2: Firmament. Item 3: Sticks. Item 4: Corn husks. Item 5: Small handheld mirror. Item 6: Clay (dried). Item 7: Spyglass (collapsible). Item 8: Box of prophylactics (unopened). Item 9: Copy of the Holy Scriptures of High Rathma'ru (heavily annotated). Item…
Smaug, MD
Doctor Longtooth tapped at the x-ray images with a single gold-sheathed talon. A troubled series of clicks rattled at the back of his throat. Smoke dribbled from the corners of his mouth. "I am sorry, Mr. Callahan," his voice rumbled. "It is at stage four. And the tissue is…
Caput Mortuum
The Master's voice trickles from the speaking tube. "Ren�n," he says, his voice an urgent orange but matte with kindness, "please come downstairs." Ren�n doesn't want to leave behind his canvas and his paint. But he's a good servant. He comes when he's called. Master is waiting…
Genie Electric
I unscrewed the bulb from the lamp. It rattled. "It's dead." "What's dead?" my daughter asked. I held the base between my thumb and forefinger, lightly shaking it to let her hear the tiny, metallic sound within. The glass was singed and clouded, obscuring the shriveled object…
Distilled Spirits
I drank my first soul when I was fifteen, at my Great Aunt Abigail's funeral. Grandpa had the honor of tapping her casket. It was an oblong, copper thing, all smooth edges and rivets, with a glass window on the top that let you look in at Abigail's face. It reminded me of a…
Tuna Fish
Jonathan ate elves because they were high in protein and vitamin B, and he fed them to his wife for the same reason. She was three months pregnant and couldn't stomach most foods; only elves satisfied her without bringing on a ripple of nausea in her belly. He prepared them for…
Tuna Fish
Jonathan ate elves because they were high in protein and vitamin B, and he fed them to his wife for the same reason. She was three months pregnant and couldn't stomach most foods; only elves satisfied her without bringing on a ripple of nausea in her belly. He prepared them for…
Appalled Science
After years of controversial experimentation, Dr. Abram Winthrop successfully manipulated the building blocks of human life. The process started in a petri dish, grew too big, moved to a test tube. The test tubes got progressively larger, and from then on it was incubators and…