She met me on the bank of a river where the earth turns soft, land melding into water, solid and fading. And not far away, the sound of the ocean. I had been traveling. Far ...
The all-powerful child is a chilling figure in weird fiction — from Star Trek’s “Charlie X” to the Twilight Zone's of Jerome Bixby’s “It’s a Good Life.” Oakland writer Laur A. Freymiller updates the trope ...