“This’ll do,” Seamus said. He stabbed the box.

Ashes tumbled. Wind began to whip and spin. The ashes ignored the stone-stubbled meadow. They clutched at Seamus’s clothes, his face. He was a squall of grey.

“You starin’ at!” Seamus spat.

I could hear the Old Man laughin’. “Nothin’,” I said.

James Hugh Comey has written a mystical novella (DEATH OF THE POET KING, Branden Press), a magical realism novel (UNCOMMON GLORY), and a post-apocalyptic novel, THE WILD WORLD. He’s a co-founder and the Writer-in-Residence of Stages of Imagination, a nationally recognized, nonprofit entertainment and learning organization. His plays have been seen by over 100,000 children.