SNOWFALL
There will hopefully be 2 or 3 more instalments of the Snowfall story (featured in Dark Sire in October 2022) with more snow-covered forests, eerie alpine winds, a dead raven, a girl looking for magic and something ancient and undead lurking in the dark.
1987.1
“Ten…nine…eight…seven…” Gabriel’s voice hitched as we dispersed like locusts beneath the timber legs of the abandoned mill. The lop-sided building stood on the edge of Ander, beside a field that stretched out, yellow and mottled in the summer heat. The rusted metal spokes sat like claws in the dried up river bed. We darted around them as they creaked in the warm afternoon breeze. In the Fall, great dust storms circled in from out across the horizon, the sky becoming so thick it turned the whole world yellow. But then the storm would pass, and it was like it never happened. Blue skies and the empty field stretching out into the distance. …