A Note on This RecordWhat follows is not a story of conversion. It is a story of contact — the particular and unsettling experience of a mind built for precision encountering something that precision alone cannot contain. Carmilla does not arrive at faith. She arrives at the edge of her own instruments and makes the only decision an honest researcher […]

CHAPTER TWOWhat the Ash Remembers✦ ✦ ✦ “There is a difference between a path and a groove.A path is chosen each time it is walked.A groove is what remains when the choosing stops.He does not make paths.He waits for grooves.”— Recovered fragment, Dosey’s eastern shore (source unverified)✦ ✦ ✦ The Wanderer — Toukhlat, The Kingdom of ManThe Weight Decides for […]

A Short Story in Seven Chapters From the world of The Bright Sight By Omar Alami “I only give you what you already crave.” — Lysandra, to everyone she has ever met “Then what do you give yourself?” — A question no one has yet thought to ask her Chapter One: The Temptress in Repose There are hours when no […]

THE ARCHITECT OF HOLLOW HEAVENS Being the First Testament of Demiurge Salkas also called Yaldabaoth, Pretender, the God-Wound ✦  ✦  ✦ “To understand the shape of a prison, one must first believe oneself its architect. To understand the shape of a god, one must first survive the shape of its doubt.” — From the Unsaid Margins of the Ariphes ✦  […]

A Short Story in Seven Chapters From the world of The Bright Sight By Omar Alami “He who masters his shadow has already conquered his enemy.” — Inscribed on the inner lining of the Mantle of Zulm Chapter One: The Weight of Fez at Dusk The medina breathed differently at dusk. Zarak had noticed this since childhood — the way […]