A story from the series: Folktales of the Twelve Dominions Arrogant sets her key in the lock of the red door, and pushes her shoulder into it. Kadder turns around to talk to her. He speaks a grunt: something or other. He speaks again: frustration. She responds vaguely, “Yes, I’m…

A story from the series: Folk Tales from the Twelve Dominions — “Hey Tomestone, the hangman knows you’re coming,” casually announced a teenaged spirit messenger wearing a white sundress with pink daisies. Her thick, brown, curly hair bounced on her shoulders. With the forest floor beneath her bare feet, she teetered back and forth from the boredom of being mostly ignored. She…

A story from the series: Folk Tales from the Twelve Dominions — A scowling man in a faded violet t-shirt sits at a diner bar. It’s 11:00pm. He’s hunched over a meal of two eggs, bacon, and a couple slices of toast. The waitress in a black apron stands at the register to his left. Silently she enters an amount into the…

A story from the series: Folk Tales from the Twelve Dominions — The lantern lighters are tall bodied creatures, transparent and fire proof. They live in the space between the material plane and the celestial plane and are themselves celestial beings. It’s hard to tell how tall they are since their environment has only one thing in it: rows and rows of…