Our protagonist gets a name! I'm still feeling out how being a Changeling would feel in inner-city Baltimore. I think there's something distinctive about the idea and I'd love to try and capture it. Here, Mr. Foster takes our narrator to McDonald's for an explanation of what's going on. Or not. I don't know if … Continue reading (Friday Fiction) Changeling: The Talk
Tag: urban fantasy
(Friday Fiction) The Surprise at the End of the Hike
The sun slunk low behind the canopy as we made our way deeper into the woods. It wasn't low enough yet that the pockets of light were weaker or smaller, but it was low enough that sunbeams hit at crazy angles. You could still feel the difference in the air between the sun and the … Continue reading (Friday Fiction) The Surprise at the End of the Hike
Friday Fiction: Urban Blight
(This is a short story that I'm writing for the Clarion Write-a-Thon, inspired by the short story "Removal Order" by Tananarive Due. I had never seen someone tackle the idea of an apocalyptic scenario from the perspective of an inner-city character, and the prospect is really exciting to me. You see apocalyptic stories from the … Continue reading Friday Fiction: Urban Blight