The Love Market: Chapter Four

“Visitors only came for a few reasons, and some might stay longer depending on what they came for. There were days I would be sad and cry until I was so exhausted I couldn’t stay awake, and there were visitors. When I received new toys, things that I didn’t understand but would have to use […]

The Love Market: Chapter Three

“I didn’t know much about what he meant by work then, and what I did know was hardly more than whispers and secretive glances. There were times I saw things on the screens that were similar to what I’ve come to understand to be this work. And when the visitors would come, and they would […]

The Love Market: Chapter One

Across the plethora of public speakers, on every television channel, interrupting phone frequencies to patch through every device and infect all forms of network functioning, the message began. It would be the final indignation of a society that had long ago collapsed and staggered on without knowing. This would be the final block to fall, […]

Wells Astrological Society: Chapter 1

9:31 pm The camera clips on but before anything can be established about where the recorder is or what is happening, the image spirals down. For a moment, it is unclear what is happening despite the various candles lighting the attic almost perfectly. There is a mass that is not distinct or easily describable as […]

Wells Astrological Society: Chapter 2

9:20pm The last room is what appears to be the master bedroom. It is the least ruined of all the spaces in the house and could almost pass as having been abandoned within the past year. Everything from the dresser to the bed, the nightstand, and the closet full of clothes looks in order and […]

Wells Astrological Society: Chapter 3

9:18pm The stairs are so worn down and decayed that the cameraman almost falls through. His good leg punches a whole in on step, but he keeps on until he is upstairs. There are two bedrooms, their layout uncertain as he’s only ever seen the lower rooms through their windows. He enters the first, cautious […]

Wells Astrological Society: Chapter 4

9:12pm There are more candles lit upstairs than when he had tumbled down into the flooded basement. There is caution in his steps, but it is unclear if that’s due to his injured leg or paranoia. This time, while in the sitting room, the cameraman takes good stock of what fills it. There is an […]

Wells Astrological Society: Chapter 5

9:06pm Someone else was in the house, but they had been upstairs from the recorder, who instantly threw himself into a side room on hearing the booming of steps down to the ground floor. The camera shakes and jilts about in the dark. The only impact of it felt as the slit of light under […]