Episode 07: Guardian (Part II)
The following Monday, I had a clump of neon green polyester fiber and a dead glow stick in my pocket, and the rejuvenated feeling that magical things were absolutely possible.
Episode 05: Two Roads
Imagine, if you will, a well-worn journal. Scuffed leather binding, smudged with soot and mud. “My name is Ezra,” the journal begins, “and I am fire.”
Fish Out of Water
Written in the fall of 2016, this is still one of my favorites. Just about everything I wrote that autumn and the following spring was a joy to work on.
I thought this might make a good book someday. There’s a partially-developed world that I would love to dig into further: part 18th-century pirate story, part magical post-apocalypse, and lots of potential.
In this strange environment, I was able to explore transitional spaces between land and sea, human and Other, by placing a land-based pseudo-biologist medicine man on a ship in the middle of the ocean.