Liesel Embry lives in a seemingly perfect world, where the sun shines just a little more vividly and the rain patters just a little more musically, where exciting midnight runs and secret candlelight meetings are the norm... and where the throne is occupied by a stunningly beautiful, and indelibly dangerous young Que...
When Dern encounters a dying knight, he forsakes his life as a thief to do the honorable thing and deliver the knight's weapons and orphaned dog to the king. Civilized life is nothing like he imagined it, though. At every turn, someone is trying to swindle him or cut his throat. Everyone but the surly dog that now loo...
Jeremy Blake is too old for the monster under his bed...but that won't stop it from killing him. Originally published by The Story Station, November 2009 Cover illustration: "The Nightmare" by Henry Fuseli, used under creative commons from www.athenaeum.org
