Niata’s Garden for Charles de Lint, and D. H. Lawrencefor my Grandma& for anyone who has ever tended a garden with me 1 The garden is what ultimately sold me on that particular boarding house. I almost walked past the place, the first time I was down here – jet-lagged, trying to sort out the …
Category: Short Fiction
The Surf-Wader
Dreaming I saw a man walking along on an even, pale yellow shoreline that glistened like melting butter in the sun. Abruptly he changed his direction, and stepped out into the lapping water until his feet and ankles were beneath the surf, and he stretched out his hands towards the tide, which was coming in. …
Prologue to Necromancy
Well folks, Necromancy, the sequel to Alchemy, is officially underway - and here is the first installment. Tell me what you think! (News updates & apologies for the months of silence coming soon).* * * * * * *PrologueA low wind whispered across the disturbed surface of the Last Sea, drawing the heavy fog swirling …
Amid the Twists of Nature
Project the image. Use a low-output setting so they won't notice if the battery gets weak. Don't think about what will happen if the bulb burns out, until it does.You can hide in the herd. Hide because predators pick off the weak, the sick, the elderly, the young. Easy targets. There's cover in numbers. Numbers …
Encounters
Composed by David Sewall and myself during a day of mulching a friend's garden, Encounters won 9th place in the 2002 Writers' Digest Short Story Competition out of some 19,000 entries. As we began work that morning, I mentioned to David that I'd like to write a fairy tale "with a haunting ending." This is …
excerpted from Alchemy
Michael of Lyhn turned back to the two men still seated in front of his desk, and leaned against the door. “Does Indar know?”“I find it hard to believe that everybody in the entire line of towers perished,” Dwelf replied, standing. “Someone must have made it to the capital.”“But no action has been taken that …
J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON 