Munge the dog trotted down the long hill through the old leaves, back down into the valley after many days away. He splashed into a creek and drank, then climbed up to a field of high grass. Grasshoppers chittered overhead as he tunneled through. He came out at the road

It looked and felt and smelled and hurt like a war, but it wasn't. It was a manufactured dream. It took place in a swimming pool of yellow oil. Two people were submerged, each wearing a sort of scuba suit with technology veining through it. Each person'

SHF_RE_HisMentor // 01_initialFromSampler He’s a bachelor with a good job and he’s happy enough, but he wants to try an experiment. For one month he’ll spend his weekends disguised as an old man. “Get used to it now, so it doesn’t take me by

They meet on an airplane. Specifically, on an airplane wing. He is on the outbound flight of his yearly vacation when the plane stops in mid-air. Everything else stops, too — even a coffee in mid-spill. But he is able to move. Following a very strong impulse, he forces

SHF_FA_NothingToFear - 2002 ish // 01_initial. Polised Aug 24, 2024. A family moves to the country. The parents can both work remotely now. They want to share with the kids all their experiences of growing up in the country. The kids are afraid of the dark. “There’s nothing

SHF_RE_JesusCameBy - 1980ish // 02_tweaked One day recently Jesus came by. “Hey, Tom,” he said, surprising me at the door. “Jesus,” I said. “Let’s take a walk.” I shut the door on what I’d been doing, and we headed out. Every busy, worried, painful thought shut its

SHF_FA_TheSkyDivers // 01_initial Our teenage hereo, Macelvain, has been having nightmares all week, and now he wakes up choking. He’s lying in warm water and has inhaled some of it. His bedroom is being flooded, with the water level rising very fast. He wades from his basement