Searching for the Ferryman
Where the mountain side and river meet there’s a fissure in the rock and the river disappears deep into the belly of the earth. It was right by that fissure…
Bangsian Fantasy
Sprung out of my pathological obsession with Mur Lafferty’s Heaven series, the Bangsian fantasy challenge! “What is Bangsian fantasy?” you ask? Well, according to wikipedia, Bangsian fantasy is " the school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife." So, write me one of those so you can tell your friends, “I just wrote some Bangsian fantasy!”
Challengers
10 entriesDid Anyone Bring a Map?
“So, did you bring instructions?” “Instructions, you know, what you should do when we get wherever we’re all walking.” “Well, I was just supposed to believe, I…
Mea Culpa, C. pennsylvanicus
“Animals don’t have souls,” Reverend Burke told me when I asked, as a young boy. Dogs, cats, rats, elephants, moles... not a soul to be found among them. The…
Paradise Abides
The Divinity uttered the command upon Judgment Day, and at His unopposable word rose everyone, every single thing that had ever lived on Earth that could have…
A Cold Day In Between
My name is Danny Morita and I’m a Shinigami. That means “death spirit,” more or less. For those of you who watch those new-fangled Japanese cartoons, we don’t…
The Plain of Bones
The woman clambered to the top of the hill of bones. The sound of her ragged breathing carried far into the half-light that revealed the plain before her. A…
Death Goes to the Public County Office. (Bangsian Challange)
“I’m here to register for a passport.” *A skeleton hand drops an ID onto the clerks counter.* “Name?” “Death Necropol O’brian.” “Occupation?” “Killing things…
Promises of Ganesha
I remember the day Hope died. She was twenty years old, going to college, had a decent job, a man who loved her, and friends and family who supported her. So…