Z.K. Leverton

FICTION: The Tinker’s Son

I pulled into the grassy ditch at the side of the road. I cut the engine and tried to remember what my mother smelled like… like sweat and apples, or maybe mildew and copper. I looked out the passenger side window and watched the green, full trees claw at the gray sky, creeping as farContinue reading “FICTION: The Tinker’s Son”

FICTION: Thanatos in Troy

1. Troy burned in the night sky. The greatest wall in all the mortal kingdoms fell sometime in the night, and the Myrmidons were the first through the rubble in their black armor. I had watched this place with much interest, coming and going as the years dripped along, collecting old men from their bedContinue reading “FICTION: Thanatos in Troy”

Beginning

Welcome! This website features fiction by Z.K. Leverton, a Toronto-based writer of fantasy, horror and experimental fiction. I hope you’ll visit often and share freely. Our first act as human beings, all the way back in primordial genesis, was to recognize the other and try to connect with them. The first way in which ourContinue reading “Beginning”