Category: stories

  • The Black Dress

    I didn’t have much time to write last week, so I’m making up for it with this short post. I wouldn’t want new visitors to feel like they’re just on yet another food blog! Enjoy! The Black Dress Today is flea market day in the town where I grew up. I came home to spend…

  • The Devouring Darkness 

    Terry Pratchett, in his book “Thud!”, imagines that darkness has a soul. Some darkness is merely shadow, but other darkness is more than that. It is not simply an absence of light; it is its opposite, a kind of anti-light, far older and more terrifying. There are many kinds of darkness, ranging from simple twilight…