1	The Reading »
She sits on the divan in the center of the library, her tiny feet tucked under the hem of her skirt. Her eyes are too deep, too blue, too distant, for her tiny face. Her mouth moves out of sync with her words . . .
2	Burnblack »
I've tried to find the source of this quote, but it has eluded me. Like a number of the mythological and symbolic elements within my dreams, I'm starting to believe it is an admixture. There is a fusion going on in my head . . .
3	Coagula Ne »
The Arabic alchemists of the 8th and 9th century preserved the Hermetic thought of Egypt, and the resurgence of alchemy in Europe during the late medieval period is indebted to them . . .
4	Eyes »
Lately I have suffered a crisis of conscience. Is all this an attempt to justify my illness? To disguise the damage, to hide the rot? . . .
5	Library »
That is not to say that libraries are useless, moldering piles of vegetable matter that are better used for providing mulch for sunflowers or cherry trees. I, personally, love a good library . . .
6	Roots »
The Ytucalis found us at Borja, some three days after the disaster along the Pongo de Manseriche. Their dialect is odd, even for Círo, who led us to believe that he was fluent in most of the regional variations . . .
7	Scarecrow »
I had a patient who was terrified of scarecrows. Scarecrows are just effigies, I explained to her, stuffed doppelgangers meant to terrify crows . . .
8	Tangle »
When I was much younger—the last few years of high school, I think—I used to have a lot of dreams about mazes. Corn mazes, unruly hedgerows, stone passages filled with steam and strange noises . . .
9	Yellow »
Whither comes such rationality? Is it the grace and stricture of civilization that tames the savage instinct that burns within the blood? . . .
10	Crossroad »
The crossroad is one of those irrepressible symbols—dig deep enough in any mythology and you'll find one. It's the recurring symbol of the duality matrix, that either/or switch that informs every morality tale . . .
11	Mirage »
In this land—before my time and before my father's time—there was a queen who earned her place beside her king by enchanting him with mirages . . .
12	Spam »
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12	The Search for Blackleaf 23 »
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13	Substantia Nigra »
Most of you are independent rebels and are going to make up your own minds about things—or, at least, you should be . . .
14	Tree »
I am not ready to leap to such an exotic explanation. I want to, God help me, I want to. It would validate so much of what I came here to prove, but that is exactly the trap I must avoid . . .
15	Spam »
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19	Rupture »
The mirror page tears, a dimensional rupture that sends pressure waves through the library. The book falls from her lap, contorting and flexing as it bounces off the edge of the coffee table . . . [art]