Chapter I Windows and Mirrors In which, in the late spring of the year two thousand and nineteen, Owen finds a mysterious book in a...

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Answer to a Curious Person At six years old, I was given six months to live, though I did not know what that meant at the time. All I...

It was past midnight, and I couldn’t take my eyes away from the window as we drove from O’Hare into the Loop. After dark is the best time...

A preface to a book I wrote nine years ago, along with the cover design of that same book. Arrogant—that seems a fitting word for an...

Prologue In which I do my utmost to relate the strange circumstances by which this book has come about, namely by the finding of a...