Serials

Alternating between dismay and fury, Emily begins to take stock of what her life has become...

"...the harmonic cultures that exist outside of my own..."

"... Without pain, I was blinded. I could not write..."

The photo that Emily has found is troubling, but not completely damning. If it is another piece of the puzzle, then Emily doesn't know how it fits...

"...the image that I have of love in my imagination..."

Unnerved by the prospect of an FBI investigation, Emily must still face the ongoing mysterious behavior of her husband...

"...doing laps in a swimming pool princely blue..."

Emily has made things easy for her husband to continue his mysterious plans. Is she right about her speculations?

Small things, beginnings in the frame of a child ... where do all the little footsteps lead?

Emily has rebelled and bought herself a computer, a new secret to match Mark's secret communications with the university in Michigan. And she's willing to give Mark enough rope to hang himself...

Once words are said, they are out there in the universe, echoing forever, and you can't put them back in your mouth. Maybe Mark should have remembered that and kept his trap shut...

Mark now knows his dwarf is a phony, and he's pretty mad about it, but Emily still wants to find out what's up with the Michigan connection...

Something is not adding up in the Fatzer household. Secret keys and secret skunks and secret papers...maybe someone needs to be straightforward?

Emily returns home from her father's house to find something she would never have expected...

The Shroeder dwarf wasn't what he appeared to be, and now Emily must chart a new course...

Safely in Santa Cruz, Emily can begin to relax a little -- but only a little...

Remembering how Middi had come to be a friend, Emily heads for haven in Santa Cruz.

About to run to her father for help, Emily remembers how she met her father's wife...

The secret forest friends may provide entertainment for Emily, but they're a more dangerous secret than most. She could cover up a broken statue, but there's no covering up the smell of skunk. But maybe Emily is luckier than she thinks...

January 2 has turned out to be much better than New Year's Day, and Emily is ready for life to turn happy again...

Emily has had a rough start to the new year. But surely that's all behind her now...

Emily has spent New Year's Day feeling ill while cleaning up the house after the party the night before, and she's just about done with it all...

With the dawn of New Year's Day, Emily has destroyed thousands of dollars' worth of her husband's prized antique statuary. But there's nothing to do but keep on going...

After that outrageous New Year's Eve party, Emily is more than ready to just settle down and try to forget what she saw. If only she hadn't drunk so much! Oh, the if onlies...

Emily has been married to Mark for many years, and life has treated her well enough. But New Year's Eve is about to reveal to her some things she'd rather not see...

Fog and sunshine, land and sea, West and East...you can dream of it all...

Conclusion. Tess has found safety in the sanctuary, but the world she knew is lost forever. One last question, though...

Who are Mirial's people? What is this place, so untainted by horror?

The place where Tess wakes is supposedly safe -- but it's a safety hard to understand...

Tess has been called out of the darkness of her injuries. But whose voice was it, really?