"His Elbow, Unkissed," the third episode in Matthew Hughes' serialized novel, The Kaslo Chronicles, is now available for a free read online at Lightspeed Magazine. Hardboiled confidential operative Erm Kaslo is trying to come to terms with the idea that the underlying rulebook of the universe is about to be rewritten, with rational cause-and-effect giving way to sympathetic association -- i.e., magic.

The two previous episodes in the novel, "And Then Some" and "Sleeper," are available in Lightspeed's archives.  http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/his-elbow-unkissed/