Craft

I could have made up the details and simply forced it to work. I was inventing the town anyway. Would anyone besides me care? Would anyone even notice?…

And that’s the final thing it taught me. It taught me that I could do a very hard thing.…

Rituals in speculative fiction are effective ways to create believable worlds. When done well, they provide depth for both the reader and fodder for characters in support of the plot or theme.…