Dogleg Hinterland Two

The night was bad-tooth black and the fire seemed lazy by comparison to the ones she had set in the past — the light travelled little beyond where she was sat. The nightmare clamped around her like the needle-toothed jaws of the ancient nameless creature that she knew awaited her a long way off in [...]

Grit: Breather 2

He knew that some of the people that he dealt with would laugh if they saw him out here, but he had to ask himself how they maintained their calm. How did these people achieve moments of peace in their lives, or were they always at war? Did they only thrive on conflict? He was [...]

Grit: Grass 2

Grasses are generally not that hard to find, because if they were then how in the hell would they do any trade? They were the bottom feeders of the intelligence community – they knew things but they didn’t often know what to do with it or, even if they did, they didn’t have the pull [...]