Side Door Stories
Smaller fires. Character studies. The episodes that live in the margins of the myth.
Side Door #001: The Song He Played Before Senty Arrived
The night before everything changed, he played something he had no name for. It had fur. It had warmth. It was a question.
3 min read
Side Door #002: What Senty Did the First Night While Brent Slept
"The moon hung low enough to brush the roofline. Pale, patient, angled just so that it lit the edge of your face. You looked younger like that. Or maybe just unguarded. Maybe those are the same thing."
3 min read
Side Door #003: What Brent Wrote the Night He Couldn't Sleep
After the rain, after the records, after the listening. A page from Brent's notebook, in the hour sleep wouldn't come.
3 min read
Side Door #004: The Night Glorp Met the Barbershop Raccoons
Three knocks at the back door. A crate on the step. No footprints. No invoice. Inside, smoked vanilla, a bag of peppercorns with dignity, and a note in tidy script: The brisket will be judged.
10 min read
Side Door #005: The Mossbed and the Mint
"It is a welcome," he said, "wearing the coat of a farewell. There is more to a mint than sweet, monsieur. There is very nearly everything in a mint, for a creature paying attention."
12 min read