Over the next couple of years, as the island of Tanna sailed the endless sea and carried Kal with it, Kal tried to learn of the tower. He didn’t, really, have much of a choice.Kal lived in the city that sprawled all around Port Cargo. It was called Jon Frum Town. Jon Frum was an ancient Tannese p...
Dark-clad shapes moving in the street outside, ringing her – onlookers studiously not looking. They were Asian, and that came as no surprise. They stood in their semi-circle and regarded her. She looked at their faces. Only a couple were unscarred. She said, "Black never...
The only sound that could be heard was of water dripping slowly down the moss-covered walls. Gorel stalked ahead, hand on the butt of his gun. Sereli walked behind. The girl Tonar, who he had rescued from the Mothers, was by Gorel’s side. He reached out to her, held her hand, and she smiled at hi...
It is a big old house, and when I was a boy I believed there were ghosts living in it. My mother said ghosts are mean old people who don’t go away even after they die, and that is all there is to it. My father said, he served in the Great War and he’d seen no ghosts, but he had seen plenty of the...