Halloween I.F. – “Something Rich and Strange” – Day 4

[ Please read the instructions before commenting! ]  “Dude, I might take you to meet my boss later, but not if you’re barely going to apologize,” Star said, pretending to be more offended than worried. “You told me that someone’d wanted to speak with you, like, right before you came to meet me, and you […]

Halloween I.F. – “Something Rich and Strange” – Day 3

[ Please read the instructions before commenting! ]  Something’s wrong.  Once Star had the thought, it was impossible to shake it. It didn’t mean it was real, he reminded himself with the weight of some months of therapy. It meant that he was functionally a horse and once he got it in his head that […]

Halloween I.F. – “Something Rich and Strange” – Day 2

[ Please read the instructions before commenting! ]  For a moment, Star thought about blowing them both off. After that therapy session, the number one thought in his brain—which he tended to think of as ‘his little walnut’ at the best of times—was just running. Fleeing. Escaping. To where or from what didn’t matter. But […]

Halloween I.F. – “Something Rich and Strange” – Day 1

[ Please read the instructions before commenting! ]  I am the Nixie Son, That Ain’t Right. I’m immortal, more or less. I can get killed, and I can definitely get captured, but I won’t age, and I won’t die from the curse of mortality alone. In my human form, I’m five foot eight, which was […]