Stories tagged “spear”

  • A Quiet Child

    Standing on an Edinburgh street corner eating lunch, he could still feel the pull, the call drawing him northwest. On his way back to the train station he passes a window painted with cartoonish twenty-somethings all smiling on a bus. “Haggis Bac...

  • The Spear of Destiny.

    The flock of tiny squawking parrakeets swoop and dive above her head as she spins the spear, faster and faster. A single piece of wrought black iron, long bladed and engraved from end to end. Like motes of emerald, they dart and plummet, shining amongs...