The Castle

Tales From One-Eyed Cat Lane
Prelude: Mike

Prelude: Mike

Mike: Mary called you up to the front office.  The store had been closed for a few hours, she was probably just closing the books.  You park the pallet of Twinkies and Ho-Hos and take the long walk through the dimly-lit aisles with a growing sense of...

Prelude: Seamus

Prelude: Seamus

Seamus: It’s a night like any other, you suppose.  The late trucks pull up to the dock and you spend a few hours with a pallet jack unloading them and stowing them in the warehouse before the stockers come in and put the stuff out on the shelves.  Same shit...

Interlude: Emily’s Offer

Interlude: Emily’s Offer

Emily- You’re so damned tired.  And hungry. But mostly tired.  Seamus turns on the TV, because of course he did, but it’s something in Arabic, and you close your eyes for just a second… ...and you’re somewhere else.  Some epic cavern like the inside of...

Prelude: Emma

Prelude: Emma

Emma: You hadn’t heard from Steve since your tour in the Zoo last summer. What you had together can only charitably be described as a fling - more accurately a series of awkward encounters that were fun enough, but ultimately lacking any chemistry. Still, he’s cute...