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An early look at my submission for the upcoming @scarlethollowzine, a collection of written works and mostly digital art centered on the characters of Scarlet Hollow.

THE ADMIRALTY seems perpetually beset by misfortune, as the newspapers have announced the SS Prunelle was lost south of Irem after a Royal Navy patrol failed to locate the becalmed vessel. It is this vessel, as will be remembered, that was honoured by the Dead Letter Office for services performed beyond the call of valour... [Excerpt from the Unexpurgated Gazette]

"Tenar sat in the stern, erect, in her ragged cloak of black. She looked at the ring around her wrist, then at the crowded, many-colored shore and the palaces and the high towers. She lifted up her right hand, and sunlight flashed on the silver of the ring. A cheer went up, faint and joyous on the wind, over the restless water."

"It was a soft gleam, like marshlight, that moved slowly across the cavern, striking a thousand scintillations from the jeweled roof and shifting a thousand fantastic shadows along the carven walls."

Dance the Silent Reel on Hideaway!

"The absence is soft, as you once were, your fronds flexile and suckered, offering comfort in the shaping pools. Now, only harshness remains; the currents only flow one way, ever-sharpening, ever-angering. Absence and regret and waste-simmered hatred extrude in sharp and painful growths."

For short-distance hauling.

"A once-proud engine drifts here, riven by a destructive growth of fungus."

Wines celebrates another 1899 as fireworks light the London skyline.

Santa NK-1's packing only one thing this Christmas: a few hundred clips of cold, hard lead.

Sparse firs cling to this rocky shoreline.

Milk, eggs, and a gust of chill air.

A cheerful visage.

"It was some foul parody, some infamous ignoble satire. He had never done that. Still, it was his own picture. He knew it, and he felt as if his blood had changed in a moment from fire to sluggish ice. His own picture! What did it mean? Why had it altered?"

Between Pacific and Broadway.

Glutton, or gourmand?

Love is in the air.