Yes. It’s our duty to remember the dead. And our duty to let them go.
When your only view is one of such peace and beauty, you can believe the happy lie that the rest of the world is just so.
There are only three things you can do when something falls from the sky,' my archdruid used to say. 'Get out of the way, get underneath some shelter, or give it some reason to change its mind about f...
The sun cannot shine as bright without a proper darkness to counter it.The world had gone a bit gray.
The guy lacks a soul—did you see him? He probably thinks cauliflower is delicious!
The grin on his face wasn’t the affable, friendly sort; it was more like the sociopathic rictus of the irretrievably, bugfuckeringly insane.
The future is a many-forked path, she said, and only you can choose which one to follow. I know that. What I don’t know is what waits at the end of those paths. Victory or death. Choose well.
The function of assholes in the world, just like the asshole we all have, is to spread shit around.
The danger of growing old is growing comfortable and complacent at the same time. We should seek out the new and strange and applaud it and throw wild fecking parties whenever it walks into our lives....
That would be me, I said. Good afternoon, gentlemen. Is this a joke? I beg your pardon? the older fellow inquired politely, a faint smile on his narrow face. He sounded like an English butler. You kno...
That was the attraction of the sirens: not promises of power or riches, but bewildering, tantalizing prophecies that made men leap from their ships to go ask the crazy bitches what the fuck they were...
Tasmania doesn’t think we can wait, and I’m on board with the idea. I’m thinking these new Druids will be Gaia’s healers above all else, fighting centuries of humans turning everything to shite. I won...
Pick a system—any system, legal or ecclesiastical—and you’ll start to wonder at how anyone could think it was fair. And then you’ll realize it was never meant to be fair but rather was intended to pro...
Our minds are all that defend us from the horror of the void. The majority of the time we simply think about something-anything-else, and that itself is an act of defiance against the vast nothing of...
Oh sweet kraken tits.
Now, I know I am not much of a craftsman, I said, busily knotting the vines into a circle, but greatness is in the act of creation and not necessarily in the finished product. Creating is the yin to t...
Manannan’s door-cum-portal
It tore me away from a nightmare where I was trying to teach high school science to a room full of creationists, so I was mightily relieved to see the Chooser of the Slain.
Is monstrous fuckpuddle,' Perun asserted, and everyone turned to stare at him with equal parts amusement and bemusement. 'What? Is this not English word?' I suggested that if it wasn't a word, it shou...
In the pattern of the curdling cheese she divined the future, the complex patterns revealing truth to her far more clearly than my wands ever could.