RampantRook 2 days ago Fallow She came to clear her losses. He offered her his order. What grew between them was brief, bright, and impossible to keep. The light in September was fickle. Yesterday, it had glowered through sullen clouds. Today, it slanted in amber tangents across the North Fields allotments. It gilded the late runner beans but sparked no warmth in the steel of Tom's bicycle frame. It did not matter. He coasted down the lane, the gravel's crunch under his wheels as familiar a rhythm as his own breath. It was as he crested the final slope that he saw it, pa...
RampantRook 19 Feb 2023 The Exorcism Of Emma: EXPOSED Penance, repaid in kind, is the only redemption for Sin. "Curiosity is the lust of the mind." Thomas Hobbes CHAPTER 1 Reverend Thaddeus Morrow, Rector of the Morris Island Free Church of the Revelation, gets to his feet and surveys his congregation. They are sweating freely. This pleases him. The wooden shutters of the Church are wide open, but the day is windless. The heat of the late summer rises off the marsh outside and seeps in like a miasma. Not a person makes a move to m...
