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Continue reading →: HungerWe stood in front of the building. It towered at the edge of the town, desolate and menacing, as though darkness itself were what gave it life. It was a dilapidated, crumbling villa, full of dust and the signs of decay. The once ornate, Gothic structure was now merely a…
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Continue reading →: The City of Thirty-FourEveryone in the city was thirty-four years old. At least according to the records. Children did not grow up, the elderly did not age, and the dead did not remain dead. Every morning, people woke up at the exact same hour, walked the exact same streets, and heard the exact…
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Continue reading →: The Daughter of the Black LakeFor centuries, the villagers spoke of the valley’s secret behind the settlement only in hushed, muffled whispers. Hidden deep within the pine forest, the expanse of water resembled a giant, daringly dark eye staring silently up at the clouds through the canopy. No stream fed it, nor did a single…
