Bridgette Day - Author of Lyrical Fantasy and Sci-Fi

Campfire at the Crossroads

An Anthology of Dark Fantasy and Sci-Fi

The fire burns. The veil thins. Come and stay a while in the in-between.

. This anthology of dark fantasy and sci-fi fiction holds unknown myths, unsettling dreams, and uncanny wonders for those who dare to listen, down here at the limns. Some of the tales include:

Wrestling through a brutal storm on a frozen mountainside, a lone climber feels someone watching her from the whiteout. She knows there’s no one out there. She also knows she’s wrong.
In the neon-choked slums of a corp-state, three hackers choose three different paths — but any way they choose will cost them. After all, in a world like this, survival is an algorithm of its own.
The concert of a young woman’s life turns into a waking nightmare when the music is cut short by what sounds like a gunshot. It could be a killer. What it is, and what it means… is much worse.
A hunter tracks a missing person to an old stone bridge, expecting to find a werewolf. But what's hiding away there isn't a werewolf — and it isn't done hunting.
To save the world (she tells herself), one young woman built YMIR: a path into the collective unconscious. To finish her work (they tell her), she must destroy the only person who ever truly understood her — and hang him in the stars.

Gather round, and lean in close. The fire won’t last forever.

We trace the star maps and follow them, and by these we are joined. We all have the same stars, even if we can’t see all of them from where we are standing. And it is here we are all at home.

You are Falling into the Sea

“These aren’t the stories we write. They’re the ones that write us.”

You are Falling into the Sea

“All of this together, was YMIR — the Yeates Mind Integration Rendering. The touchpoint with the collective unconscious.”

You are Falling into the Sea

“We think of memory as storage,” she began. “But it’s more like constellations. Patterns of neurons that flare to life. A new constellation burned in for every moment you remember.”

You are Falling into the Sea

Trauma and pain, she knew, eventually crystallized into shining points. This moment would not always pull at her heart like riptides. but for now…it pierced.

You are Falling into the Sea

“This is the only place you thought you were ever home, isn’t it,” he spat. “In your head. And now in others’ heads. But you can’t do this. People have to invite you into their heads and hearts.”

You are Falling into the Sea

Grief was one of the reasons he was chosen. Why he was perfect. Because grief pulls you half into another world already.

You are Falling into the Sea

“It only ever hurt a little, going to the Forest. Since it lived in you already.”

You are Falling into the Sea

About the Author

Bridgette Day was so impressed by Nabokov’s Signs & Symbols that she moved to Denmark. There, she picked up a degree in cognitive semiotics on purpose — and a husband by accident. They (Bridgette and her husband, not the degree) now live in Utah with their two children.

Her upcoming project is Heartlines, a Nordic-inspired fantasy about fate and entanglement, featuring Britta from You Are Falling into the Sea — and Loki, from Norse myth.