Series The Lanterns of Silent Marsh

The characters and events in this story are entirely fictitious. They do not resemble anyone, and any resemblance to any region or real-life persons is purely coincidental. Episode 1: The Drifting Light The coastal wetlands of Oakhaven Bay were perpetually…

Episode 2: Footsteps on the Water Silas secured his skiff to the rotting pier and stepped cautiously onto the wooden planks, which groaned and flexed under his boots. He picked up the iron lantern, noting that the metal was icy…

Episode 3: Lost Compasses Determined to retrace his path back to the skiff, Silas grabbed the lantern and bolted toward the doorway, only to find that the exit had vanished behind a solid wall of rotting timber. Panic setting in,…

Episode 4: Voices in the Reeds The stone causeway abruptly terminated at the edge of a deep, circular pool where the black water swirled in a slow, hypnotic vortex. Standing at the water’s edge was a figure clad in a…

Episode 5: Crossing the Marsh Back at Pelican Point Lookout, relief watchman Clara Vance arrived for her shift at dawn, finding the control room completely empty and the main monitoring screens flickering erratically. On the desk lay Silas’s logbook, open…