A hooded figure seated alone in quiet surroundings

Lawrence C. Cobb

Fiction Writer

Myth, history, mortality — and the impossible arriving in the middle of an ordinary afternoon.

The Origin

The first idea came to me in high school. For seven years I did nothing with it.

I assumed it would fade the way most ideas do — quietly, without requiring a decision. Instead it kept its place. Whatever I was doing instead of writing, the story went on arranging itself.

I thought, eventually, the idea would leave.

It didn’t.

It grew.

Seven Years, Three Artifacts

The earliest hand-drawn concept — a black feather with handwritten The Lumen Caligo / Fallen — The Idea

A white feather from which birds emerge — The Symbol

Cover of The Lumen Caligo — Fallen by Lawrence C. Cobb — The Book

One story did not remain alone.

Once the writing began, characters wanted histories, and those histories held stories of their own. What was meant to be a single book became a saga — and beside it, two others arrived: a courteous bargain struck with the living, and a monster who was only ever a woman.

Seven years was long enough to leave one story unwritten. I do not intend to do the same with the rest.

A hooded figure on a wide shore beneath an enormous sky, a distant pier behind

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