My beauty betrays me
A giant claw scrapes against the flagstones of the garden shed. My heartbeat thunders in my ears. The stink of brimstone is all around me. She is here. I have […]
A giant claw scrapes against the flagstones of the garden shed. My heartbeat thunders in my ears. The stink of brimstone is all around me. She is here. I have […]
It is just past midnight, and thunder is crashing out of the clear night sky. Lightning zigzags across the lieutenant governor’s garden. The great She-Demon of London has landed. I […]
My new residence is the shed at the bottom of His Excellency’s garden, just past the chicken coop. As I once remarked to His Most Gracious Majesty the Emperor of […]
It is the longest day I have ever known. I cannot move. I cannot raise my head more than an inch or two. The darkness around me reminds me of […]
I have only ever met one human who was taken over by vampire mice, and that was in Lond— No, I do not wish to think about that time. Especially […]
I leap up onto the bed, which is covered with an embroidered rug. The pillows are fat and soft. I doubt very much that their owner has to make do […]
I am woken in the early hours of the morning by another cat, a scraggly orange tom, who seems to think this is his bed. I tell him, politely, that […]
The dying words of the vampire mouse are running through my head, and I cannot silence them. Forget Paris, Harry-le-beau. Remember Lund— I am trying to think of words that […]
I am driven from my bed by hunger. I stretch, clean my paws and head for the warehouses. This time I avoid the inns – much as I enjoy the […]
There must have been something wrong with the second lizard. I vomit it up and go to sleep. When I wake, my belly is empty and my fur is dirty […]