Tag: Ravenshorts

  • Ghost in the Smell

    This is another prequel to Ravenshore’s Nightmare, set about three years earlier. The novel mentions an incident with detective Bollart and a sewer elemental a couple of times – so here it is! ___ “You’re godsdamn lucky you can’t smell this, Frank,” Kat said to her gun, fighting and coughing to control her gag reflex.…

  • Shot in the Dark

     “So you can get rid of other people’s ghosts, but not me?” griped Frank in a tone that would sound like he was grinding his teeth, if he had any. “Shut up, Frank,” hissed Kat. “We talked about this. Not at my fucking job.” Kat was waiting in the mid-sized but lavishly decorated lobby of the…

  • The Nightmare Patient

    Wenzi had only just taken her shoes off to sit down when an emergency-coded call came in on her personal radio frequency. “Doctor Wenzi, this is Doctor Braddock, please come in. Urgent.” Wenzi looked around her apartment, regretfully taking it in. She hadn’t had time to appreciate her old fashioned, delicate yet cozy home recently.…

  • Eustace’s Keys

    Once again, she’d fallen asleep at her desk, drunk, trying not to dream the same nightmare. Successfully, this time. The knock at Kat’s door in the early morning, piercing her headache, was an entirely different kind of nightmare. “Hold on,” Kat grumbled, straightening her coat and hair as much as she could. She dumped the…

  • The Skeleton King

    “I am the Skeleton King,” rasped the skeleton as it clawed its way out of the ground, covered in dirt and splinters, its movements stilted and unnatural. “Uh huh,” said the gravedigger, and smashed the skull with his shovel.