Able
Portnoy was not in the best shape to climb a mountain. Frankly, he didn’t think he was able, but he’d packed a lunch. So, more or less, he’d made up […]
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Ablation
It was a spot of bad luck that Johann Strauss, the glacier (no relation to the German composer, glaciers being generally older than most Germans), hadn’t joined his fellow ice […]
Abeyance
A sudden stillness. My breath froze in my throat and the harsh northern air whipped and hacked at the back of my tongue. A long swallow. Around me, the bodies […]
Aberrant
An aberrant thing began to grow in Nicole’s mind, blinking and twisted, shapeless as yet but still forming, coalescing, rolling softly until its fingers scratched the delicate peaks of her […]
Abecedarian
An abecedarian lounging on the stair, abandoned his studies and turned to thin air; an incorporeal phantom gave him a fright, extemporaneously freed from the alphabet’s bite. From the book’s […]
Pierce Nahigyan 