Yule Be Fine (2014.12.27)
Safe choices may not be right choices and Hannah was right to worry.

Candy Cane Shrapnel (2014.12.25)
The niblings pick candy cane shards out of their faces.

Wake to Answers (2014.11.29)
Dezi's father and Jacki's mother die.

Cosmic (2014.10.15)
It's fun to pay to infiltrate Alex Grey's compound.

Holly Warming (2014.08.16)
Dan cheat on Holly. She leaves him and takes the first steps toward a new life.

Honeymoon: No More Eureka! (2014.08.03)
Amber and Xen leave Eureka, but not without wasting a lot of time looking for a dinky lighthouse because a map told them to.

Honeymoon: More Eureka! (2014.08.02)
Amber and Xen walk in circles, stare at a burl and listen to bicurious truckers, and gadabout a beach.

Honeymoon: Eureka! (2014.08.01)
Amber and Xen go to northern California and drive far too much among giants, shoggoths, Bigfoots, and wraiths.

Wedding Wrap-Up (2014.07.28)
Final thoughts on the wedding.

Wedding! (2014.07.26)
Xen and Amber marry.

Wedding: Day Two (2014.07.25)
Xen and Amber prepare chicken.

Wedding: Day One (2014.07.24)
Xen and Amber prepare to wed.

Bigfoot Picnic (2014.07.08)
Believing in Bigfoot doesn't remove your humanity on a summer's night.

Money Doesn't Buy Happiness (2014.07.07)
Please never tell someone that money doesn't buy happiness because the lack of it buys a lot of misery.

Biking to Enlightenment (2014.07.02)
Given sleep and physical activity, Xen's brain reboots.

High Strangeness about Bigfoot and UFOs (2014.06.24)
Xen tries to reconcile Bigfoots and UFOs.

What Big Feet You Have (2014.06.18)
Xen is asked to be a UFO expert for Bigfoot researchers.

Left in the Garden (2014.05.11)
Xen grows paranoid because Amber gardens in the dark.

Inside the Dragon (2014.05.06)
Xen joins Daniel at a Beltane festival.

Six Months for Two Seconds (2014.05.02)
Xen works with incarcerated minors. It isn't the easiest thing, emotionally.

Puzzle Pieces (2014.04.19)
Xen meets a new person and begins to see an older person for the first time.

Waking Life (2014.04.17)
The second waking is the hardest.

Wedding Invitations (2014.04.10)
If Xen doesn't want himself at his wedding, what are the chances he'll let you be snide there? (Spoilers: Slim to none.)

An Evening with Art Spiegelman and Neil Gaiman (2014.04.06)
Xen listens to Art Spiegelman and Neil Gaiman talk comics.

Art Sausage (2014.03.10)
Xen will praise your art, but don't make him say nice things about something he created.

Goodbye to You (2014.03.08)
Xen wishes he could formally break up with friends, but it's hard to say, "I think of you as a stranger."

No Such Convention 2014 (2014.03.01)
Xen is a guest at No Such Convention. He brings the house down! Or shuts the lights off.

Brigid's Cross (2014.02.01)
A man's heart ails him among witches, who call proper authorities before chanting.

An Outdated New Year (2014.01.01)
Amber proposes to Xen with a pen, as she warned she might.

Thomm Quackenbush is an author and teacher in the Hudson Valley. He has published four novels in his Night's Dream series (We Shadows, Danse Macabre, Artificial Gods, and Flies to Wanton Boys). He has sold jewelry in Victorian England, confused children as a mad scientist, filed away more books than anyone has ever read, and tried to inspire the learning disabled and gifted. He is capable of crossing one eye, raising one eyebrow, and once accidentally groped a ghost. When not writing, he can be found biking, hiking the Adirondacks, grazing on snacks at art openings, and keeping a straight face when listening to people tell him they are in touch with 164 species of interstellar beings. He likes when you comment.