Category: On Monsters

There is nothing real but pain.
I have learned the monster’s touch.
And learned this too
That peace
Is nothing more
Than the interval between two sufferings.
— from “The Betrothal (V/?)”

• The Monster (I/IV)
• Alan (II/IV)
• If I Ran The Bay
• Thyestes (III/IV)
• Aegisthus (IV/IV)
• (Good Friday) Tenebrae (I/I)
• Sunday (2 of 2)
• Myths and Heroes (II/IV)
• Remnants (III/IV)
• People of Salt (IV/IV)
• Surrender (1 of 2)
• Tunnel Rat (I/IV)
• The Show (II/IV)
• Questions and Answers (2 of 2)
• The Breaking of the World
• The Unsubstantiated Assertions Fairy (II/II)
• Priyanka (I/II)
• At the Temple (II/II)
• Shame (I/II)
• Random Genealogical Interjection
• The Dove (II/?)
• The Contemner (I/I)
• The Chorus of Definition (1 of 1)
• Hero and Monster (I/IV)
• Mylitta’s Question (II/IV)
• Belshazzar (III/IV)
• Nabonidus’ Gods (IV/IV)
• The Betrothal (V/?)
• Why the Monster Laughs at God (1 of 1)
• Jane Talking
• The Wind is Changing
• Iphigenia (II/IV)
• Sacrifice (3 of 4)
• The Old Man of the Sea (1 of 2)
• The Fable of the Lamb (1 of 2)
• Tigers in their Cages (2 of 2)
• Before He Was Cool (I/I)
• “Why Can’t I Fix You?” (I/II)
• “There are Stars in Your Eyes, Elli” (II/II)
• Martin and Thess (II/III)
• (Good Friday – Hitherby Annual #1 – I/I) Tre Ore
• Jacob, His Runt, The Angel, and the Maw (1 of 3)
• On the Endings of Stories (2 of 3)
• Angels, Sorvins, Humans, Lancasters, Bainbridges, and Jacks
• The Ballad of Bushido Santa
• House of Saints: Edmund’s Hunger
• House of Saints: A Motley Collection of Rogues
• House of Saints: Vladimir’s Dreams
• House of Saints: Intermission at Edmund’s Home
• House of Saints: Vidar’s Boot
• House of Saints: A Practically Unsolvable Problem
• House of Saints: Standing in the Storm
• An Unclean Legacy: “Red”
• An Oracle for NP
• The Well
• “That Was Quick,” The Monster Said (I/III)
• The False Enlightenment (II/III)
• Scattered (III/III)
• (April 1) What if the Tower Had a Different Cast?
• Hitherby Annual #2 – Maundy Thursday (I/I)
• The Nest of Mirror Pieces (5 of 5)
• Ink Indestructible (I/I)
• Ink and Abandonment (I/IV)
• Ink Inappropriate (II/IV)
• Ink Infallible (IV/IV)
• Ink and Anarchy (X/XVI)
• Ink Entomological (XIV/XVI)
• A Study in Entanglement (VII/VII)
• Free (V/VII)
• What’s Gray and Hurts More than You Can Imagine? (IV/VII)
• Stupid Words and their Stupid Power, Anyway (I/III)
• Forsaken of their Gods (II/III)
• Bam (IIa/III)
• Haunted (IIb/III)
• And Sometimes You Just Slip (III/III)
• The No-Good Bird (I/I)
• Anthropomorphizing the Crucible (I/VII)
• Eliza and the Frog (II/VII)
• Formica (III/VII)
• And the Birds Fall Dead (IV/VII)
• Exposition Answers Emptiness with Digressions (V/VII)
• “And Break.” (VI/VII)
• Little Faces (VII/VII)
• Oh, Harold Dear (I/I)
• The Rabbit and the Wolf (I/I)
• The Shepherdess (I/VII)
• Later . . . (Ia/VII)
• The Boundary Between Liril and the World (II/VII)
• The Lion (V/VII)
• What Do You Do with a One-Winged Cherub? (VII/VII)
• Scarab All-a-Fulminatin’, Explody & Oh Shi— (I/I)