Some stories don’t belong on the shelf beside the others. They’re shorter, quieter, and I write them for the readers who’ve decided to come a little closer. This is where they live.

The story waiting for you

Right now there’s one: “The Woman Who Would Not State Her Sin.”

A soul arrives in a waiting room that runs like clockwork and sits down in front of a single form. Everyone who comes through this room eventually fills in every box. She won’t fill in the last one. The clerk sent to move her along has read every kind of person there is, in thirty seconds flat, for longer than he can remember, and he has no procedure for a woman who quietly, politely declines. What happens between them takes about fifteen minutes to read and tends to stay a good while after.

It’s free. It’s for subscribers. That’s the only door in.

What you get

Subscribe and you’ll have:

• the free read in full, the moment you’re in
• new chapters and short fiction as I write them
• first word when the next book is close, before it turns up anywhere else

No daily noise. I write to you when I have something worth the interruption.