The Mushroom People

Cities used to grow artists the way certain dirt grows mushrooms. You didn’t need much. A cheap room, a cheap drink, and a few other cranks who cared about the same peculiar things you did. You could fail at this for years and still feel like a citizen of something enormous, which is a neat…

Lindsey Graham Finds Peace and Escape

He came out of the Carolina low country where the sand is white as bone and the rivers run red with the iron of old earth. No father to name him. No mother to bury. Just a sister and the long empty road that led him north into the law and the war rooms of…