The Forester’s Daughter

The Forester’s Daughter

When he is getting into his car, a stranger who holds his cards close to his chest approaches. ‘I understand you have a dog you’d sell.’ ‘A dog?’ says Deegan. ‘Aye,’ he says, ‘a gun dog. Do you still have him?’ ‘Well, I do.’ Deegan is set back on his heel but he...
Courting The Wild Twin

Courting The Wild Twin

Be Sceptical of the Quick Route Underneath a motorway there was once a road, underneath the road there was a lane, underneath the lane there was a track and underneath the track there was once an animal path. Hoof prints under the concrete. It is the animal path that...
There Are Rivers In The Sky

There Are Rivers In The Sky

‘Grandma, those winged giants that you said Leila saw in her youth, what happened to them?’ ‘The lamassus? They’re gone.’ ‘Where?’ ‘Who knows – Europe, America … Now they’re kept in big houses called museums. They’re not in their native soil any more, although...
Courting The Wild Twin

Courting The Wild Twin

Stop Saying That the Earth Is Doomed You may be doomed, I may be doomed, the earth not so much. And anyway, do you have any idea how offensive that is to the gods? To any amount of offended magics? Especially to your children? To the perpetual and ongoing miraculous?...