Beck’s Pest Control and the Case of the Drag Show Downer by Abra Staffin-Wiebe   I was sitting at the kitchen table, eating breakfast and arguing with my daughter, when my work phone broke the silence of our discussion. Not happening, I signed, quickly swallowing my last bite of peanut butter toast so I could […]

It is three days before she dreams a strange prophecy. The Daganites believe prophecy is shrouded in mystery. In truth, it is logical---bound by choice and statistics and a million small things they don’t pay attention to, but that gods do. Mortals love secret and ritual and when they come to her temple with their hundred small choices they don’t look at her. Eyes cast down, watering from the smoke, foreheads pressed to the ground.