The Bracelets of the Gods
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Tale of the Scout and the Pachydormu by Gregory Norman Bossert
The Poet Laureate was fetched from his retirement in a lighthouse on the far shore of the Founder Mer to compose a song of eighty-six interlocked stanzas like steps on a stairway spiraling down into a cool dim quiet. But on the forty-seventh stanza of its recitation, the Governor squinted into the space over the Poet's shoulder and said, "listen, any deeper and we shall hear the words those beasts sing as they pass" and demanded that the previous stanzas be read in reverse; "back to the surface," he said.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Moult by Christopher Rowe
Merton did not answer because Soliver's jibe had struck truer than he could know. The Moult attacked more than the body. Flightlessness was followed inevitably by madness and then total emptiness of the mind, if the disease was allowed to run its course. Most Kin afflicted as he was killed themselves long before that point though or were killed by others in pointless battles the madness caused the afflicted to seek out.
Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont - Fantasy Magazine
On the island of Manhattan, there鈥檚 a building out of time. I can鈥檛 tell you where it is, exactly. It has an address, of course, as all buildings do, but that wouldn鈥檛 mean anything to you. What I can tell you is that the building is called The Oakmont.