Generational Pack Quest

Chapter 9 — A Question of a Container Auralie is born on the last day of spring, which means the first thing my daughter ever does, as far as the world is concerned, is close […continue reading]

Chapter 8 — A Stretch of Nothing Two deaths in a handful of days and a birth due inside a handful more, and the middle of that arrangement turns out to be the calmest stretch […continue reading]

Chapter 7 — The Record The notification arrives on an ordinary morning, the way they do — no ceremony, no build-up, a fact simply becoming available to me while I am standing in my kitchen […continue reading]

Chapter 6 — What Five Knacks Buy I wait a day to take the test, and I want the reason on the record, because it is not the reason anybody would assume. It is not […continue reading]

Chapter 5 — Three Items in a Line The year turns and nothing else does. That is not a complaint. I wake, I eat something standing up, I go through the seam at the edge […continue reading]

Chapter 4 — Nine Feet The kettle boils, and the day I have already decided to do something about arrives with a form to fill in. That is genuinely what it feels like — the […continue reading]

Chapter 3 — Better Light I give the search a rest after that. Not out of injury — I’ve already done the accounting on that and the numbers came out fine — but because three […continue reading]

Chapter 2 — Four Names and a Gnome I sleep until nearly noon on my first Winterfest in Glimmerbrook, which on any other day would be a character flaw and today is simply what the […continue reading]

Author’s Note Chapter 1 — Hard Mode My birthday cake sits on the patio table like it has filed the proper paperwork to be there—frosted, centered, inevitable. The candles are too many to be romantic […continue reading]