Status Updates From The Variegated Alphabet

“Fact eclipses myth, and we are made both the poorer and the richer in the selfsame moment.”

“Forget all that crap about Old Testament justice. The Old Testament has nothing on the horror show that passed for justice atop Mount Olympus.”

C IS FOR CRYPTOZOOLOGY

“Think of it as a refugee camp, this pseudoscience, this hodgepodge of beliefs cobbled together from gullibility and wishful thinking,”

“Z is for Zipper Unfortunately, it’s also for zealot.
So, as memoriam to the unrealized fantasies of said zealots, and also in recognition of all those who manage to be just as hung up about sex without recourse to some pious bit of bullshit or another, I shall kindly leave zipper to your personal capacities for deviant whimsy.” 😁

S is for Samaritana

“The barren, childless wife of a marquis fell asleep in her garden, and while she slept, a serpent found her and slithered inside (use your imagination),”

D IS FOR DAGON

“Six thousand meters down, Dagon watches and waits for a time when humanity might know him once more. But there will be no bounty this time, no prayers answered nor boons granted, and he dreams of great cities submerged and submarine temples where the drowned are his supplicants and concubines.”

Z is for Zoosporangium

“Because even algae and lower fungi need love, too. And don’t you forget it.” 🙂

Oh, wow! These short little windows of story, looking in on situations that no one should be seeing are fantastic so far. Such beautiful writing.

Only Kiernan can turn what seems like the mundane sipping of an alcoholic drink into something so beautiful and poetic.

“A heathen god laid on your tongue,” he says. Bitter. Burning. Sweet. “The god is trapped inside you now, looking out through the windows of your eyes.”

I've made it to Chartreuse