Man in the Middle
Tara carved Abyssal letters into the shag with the blade of her knife. Reality bled briefly, then scabbed over, leaving a soft green glow behind.
“Do you know what you’re doing?”
“Not exactly. But there’s a first time for everything.”
A short story in horror anthology Shared Nightmares, published 2014. Set directly after Three Parts Dead, Tara Abernathy is moving into her office as in-house counsel for the Church of Kos when she discovers a remnant of the God Wars trapped within the church.
To figure out the problem and set up intra-office communication (think telegrams, but with rat brains and nightmares) she dives into a tangled web of nightmares and finds herself confronting God Wars level Craft.
Not the right cover, but honestly? The real cover actually freaks me out, so I am NOT doing a large version.
I can never get enough of the Craft Sequence, and when I discovered this short story I was THRILLED. In honour of Halloween, here are ten of my favourite details from this spookyish horrorish short story.