In spring of 1846, Edgar Allan Poe moved from New York City to his country cottage in Fordham where he wrote "The Philosophy of Composition", an essay that promises to recount the method he used to write his famous poem "The Raven" (1845). In the...
The Phoenix and Turtle is Shakespeare's allegorical poem on the mystical nature of love.
The poem tells of the funeral of two lovers the phoenix, a mythological bird associated with immortality, and the turtledove (usually called...
Centuries before the Fifth Column, an ancient empire discovers the power of the first Phoenix Variant.
Hordes of the Mongol Empire sweep across Northern Asia, crushing everything in their path. As plague ravages the continent and the...
On board Phoenix Airlines Flight 320, Andrew Goddard awakens to discover the cockpit empty and all the passengers unconscious.
In the Colorado Monarch Mountains, an old gold miner discovers a fiendish stone mask sealed inside an obsidian...
Sophia: former black operative, current enemy of the state.
Moments before a catastrophic hurricane hits New York City, a terrorist attack vaporizes a museum and a large chunk of the Upper West Side. Almost caught in the explosion,...
Winner of the 2010 Drue Heinz Literature Prize.
The Physics of Imaginary Objects, in fifteen stories and a novella, offers a very different kind of short fiction, blending story with verse to evoke fantasy, allegory, metaphor, love, body, mind,...
Sent from the Well-Built City to a barren mining town, physiognomist Cley is directed to find the thief who has stolen a supernatural and legendary white fruit that grew in the Earthly...
Sent from the Well-Built City to a barren mining town, physiognomist Cley is directed to find the thief who has stolen a supernatural and legendary white fruit that grew in the Earthly...