Late at night, Vraneas walked through the last trees of the forest and reached the borders of cultivated land. He had finally arrived at his destination, the jati of Igate: a small agrarian community nestled in the midst of the tamarinds. The tilled fields stood silent and empty in the moonlight. At the edge of…

I came into the palace of the lords One Death and Seven Death through the great gates of obsidian, on foot, armed with nothing but a desperate resolve. There, in the depths of the underworld, I asked for my husband’s life. The lords’ thrones were huge, and made of human bones pieced together: skulls and…

On the eve of Wang Jun’s departure, her brother Fai entered her room, and found her before her mirror. “I look such a fright,” Jun said. Her face, devoid of makeup, was wan, almost colourless. Under her eyes were dark circles, like bruises. Fai knew that for the past seven days she had stayed up…

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“They say you are the one to see if I want to track down a missing person,” the woman said, pulling to her the only chair in my office. She wore silk, embroidered with a qi’lin unicorn–a rank reserved to the highest businessmen of Fenliu. I saw her long, lacquered nails and the impeccable yellow of…