6. Hide and Seek (5)

She was quick, and the element of surprise was in her favor. She grabbed the knife, waved it aloft and squealed. The sharp blade glinted magically in the rheumy quarter-light. White teeth flashed in all the dark faces. Screams broke out. Brandishing the knife the woman charged at Ryu and...

Dead Love: Cocktail Hou...

Ryu is currently caught up amid the vodou and the bokors and the hounfours of Haiti. It’s an exhausting business, as you’ll see in Chapters. So, I decided it would be a good idea to do what I think everyone should do when the going gets rough: break for cocktails. And in...

Dead Love: Zombie Rant ...

What’s in a name? Well, a lot. Words are magical, and when you name a massive reservoir of potential fuel 18,000 feet below sea level after a doomed town and go after it with greedy abandon, you are asking for trouble. I’m sure you’ve read by now about the chain of bad...

Dead Love: Zombie Jambo...

Zombie party! At least in Trinidad where “Zombie Jamboree, the Song That Killed Calypso” was created in 1955 by Lord Invader and his Twelve Penetrators. Yes, that’s true. I am not making that up. Sexy little back-up candle carriers replaced zombies in its performance by...

Dead Love: In Haiti

In the weekly Dead Love serialization, Ryu has followed Miura to Haiti where he is swept up into the world of vodou (also voodoo). He’s taken to a hounfour, a gathering of a Vodou société, where old Ronan is about to save a woman possessed by a spirit. Fact or fiction? Fact, of...