Poems for Haunted Towns

Malik Quill walks the road between those towns with a journal and a blade. He is a poet, a teacher, and a swordsman - grown, not old - and he will not name a street until he has fed the living and written a line the living can keep. The book is called Poems for Haunted Towns. The sword is called Last Line. Both stay quiet until the verse is true.

Hollowmere. Bellrest. Candlewick. Glassford. A ranch that borrowed a blue lantern. Fogville, named by a pale coat before the living could speak. Ea...