Short fiction, flash, poems, and the pursuit of unspeakable loveliness.
Alexei Raymond
New here? Start with Selected Works →Cycles
Story cycles flow in and out of one another; an interconnected whole emerges.
Mythbreaking
The Anton persona; the shedding and breaking of old worlds as a new world struggles to be born.
Mythmaking
A psyche’s architecture; foundations, early cataclysms, and experience prior to words.
Fool's Gold
The Adam persona; its partitions and the gold in the center.
Dreams
Figments and fragments; dreams bubbling up. Flash-fiction pieces from the cycle, featuring (6,080): ‘Batter my heart, five-eye’d God.’
Portici
The Turin cycle; time of moths. Stories from the cycle, featuring Glassdom: ‘It’s glassfall—a rain that chimes and glitters the street.’
Valentine's Star
The Valentin persona; tribulations of early love. Stories from the cycle — ‘And her lips met his—and bliss, bliss, bliss.’
Conscription
Hauntings of white and blue; olive-drab and refusal.
The Real
De liefde maeckte van den smidt eenen schilder. Stories from the cycle, featuring Zagagulyn: ‘His rough black hair stands on end.’