The wall had a sound. Reed Callaway noticed it on his third pass through the building. Not wind, not settling stone, something else. Something that came and went like a creature trying very hard to stay quiet, but not quite managing it that he stopped walking. He stood still in the middle of what used … Read more
When historians recount the year 1835 in New York, their focus inevitably settles on the catastrophe above ground. The great fire that ravaged lower Manhattan. The 700 buildings consumed in a single December night. The financial district reduced to frozen ash. The city’s heart gutted in temperatures so cold that water turned to ice before … Read more
Let me begin with something that should not be controversial but somehow is. Friday the 13th is not ancient. The superstition, the specific crystallized fear of a Friday landing on the 13th day of a month does not trace cleanly back to antiquity the way we are told it does. The deeper I looked into … Read more