Fruit trees required a mate, right? If there was one, then there had to be another. Otherwise, they weren’t able to pollinate. So if he got one tree, there wouldn’t be any fruit. But if he got two, there wouldn’t be any room left in the yard for anything else. Maybe fruit trees weren’t the […]

It was hot this morning, about as hot as yesterday. Andrew was at the McBride plot, walking the perimeter of it and shouting Noah’s name. This didn’t feel likely to help, but since the sunrise he’d already driven through the entire town, tried to get over the line, searched as much of the forest as […]

Andrew was burning. He knew it was a lot of things. Exhaustion, fear, guilt, and the side effects of the five different tracking spells he’d tried in the past three hours. Ever since leaving Iris’s shop, he’d been looking for new ones in his own growing collection and trying them immediately. Two were absolute duds, […]

All that tension that had faded away during their nights in Vermont was settled right back into Roman’s shoulders as he drove down a winding dirt road somewhere between Petersham and New Winslow. He wasn’t quite sure what he was looking for beyond Noah, safe and alive. But it was the middle of the night, […]

The bar was an absolute dive. One of the side windows was broken, the cracks covered with a tattered ad for live music about eight months earlier. It looked a lot like Keegan’s actually, if maybe a little dimmer, hotter, and much more crowded. Olivia went straight to the bouncer, a large man with a […]

(Author Note: I’ve said in a lot of different places over the past few months that Season 7 would be the final season. That was actually the plan, but if you read my newsletter or subscribe to Patreon, then you’ve seen that I ended up splitting the planned season in half. So you’re getting Season […]

Noah didn’t know where he was going. All he knew was that he should go in this direction, that this was the route that would bring him home. Home was in New Winslow, he knew that. In most of his mind, he was aware that home was the duplex, with his cat upstairs and Liv […]

Andrew got to the shop about thirty minutes later, so distracted by what had happened that he was surprised when he got there. It was hot outside, unusually hot for April, but he’d barely noticed. He’d been walking from the Limerick to Forest Charms in a daze. Luckily there were about four cars going past […]

The next afternoon, the flat was completely unpacked. Everything was in it’s place, and the boxes had been neatly dismantled and stored in the small closet off to the side of the kitchenette. At first, Andrew had been about to throw them all in the recycling bin. But as he flattened the last one, he’d […]

They were staying in a small town, but it was a different small town. There was a tiny downtown, but it wasn’t the one that Roman had been to every single day for twenty-two years. Instead of the little wooden general store with the diagonal parking spaces out front, there was a small supermarket with […]