Shadows of Shattered Light

Shadows of Shattered Light (SoSL) is a world-building project I have been working on intermittently since 2018.

  • The Promise

    The Promise

    There was a chasm. It looked unassuming from the surface. It was round and very large. The village’s strongest swimmer took longer to cross it than the divers could hold their breath, though such a test was seldom done, for it was inauspicious for the living to enter its waters. That maw of deep, twilight Continue reading

  • A Mother’s Love

    A Mother’s Love

    She woke in a familiar stupor. The blankets which swaddled her body seemed also to envelop her mind in warmth, drawing her back to sleep, but though she was too tired to remember where she was, enough of her remained alert to sense an incongruity between her memory and the space she sensed beyond her Continue reading

  • A Letter to Fritz

    A Letter to Fritz

    How long have I waited out here in the cold? How much longer must I endure the unseeing stares of my countrymen; the sneering of the Verisiennes? I am invisible and hated—a bum begging for change and an enemy who has received his due abasement. Do they not know that I want to vanish? Do Continue reading

  • Petrel

    Snow fell from the pallid sky as the clouded sun sunk beyond the city’s walls. It was dark; only the golden glow of the streetlights lit the powdered cobbles, and the streets thinned with people off to the warmth of their homes. For a cat, though, it was time to hunt. From the darkness of Continue reading