Shattered Ladder 1-27

Chapter 6: An Old Face Moving. The world was rocking back and forth, a gentle steady motion that felt like being in a cradle, something this life had never given him. Being held. His eyes were heavy, too heavy to open, the world too hazy for him to even think. a dream-thing floating in his…

Chapter 9: Three Years Still A thousand days.  Or something like it.  All of it was enough to smear together, one day blending into the next, in a long quiet period with no sharp edges to it.  The him that had been carried into this place, the tiny terrified twelve-year-old, was long-gone.  In that boy’s…

Chapter 4: Run, Boy, Run The world was a single point. A sharp, red-wet point. Sound had gone, all of it, swallowed to nothing in the endless gray of the sky, the village and the ground.  All Ken could hear was the tearing of his own breath as air forced its way in and out,…