urban fantasy When Bike Lane Campaigning Gets Out Of Hand Carlos hadn’t meant to become a local councillor. But one thing led to another, and… here he was. About to finish his first term. Which he felt might be his last.
urban fantasy Years Squandered Chasing Eternity “No, no, no!” Wallace held up his hands in a futile warding gesture and stumbled backwards - seemingly oblivious to the fact he’d stepped THROUGH his desk.
fantasy Gleaned By The Sharp Ears Of Doddery Sue Everyone assumed that Sue Doddley was deaf, or daft, or both. If they only knew…
urban fantasy Parenting The Devourer, Heir Of Evil It was disquietingly disarming, watching The Devourer, Heir of Evil, He Who Is Fated To Destroy All, crawl around after his new toy train with a dopey grin while making “choo choo!” noises.
scifi A Borrowed Cry Echoes Through Space It was certainly a distress signal. The frequency, the words, even the urgent cadence, they were unmistakeable. But… it wasn’t quite right.
urban fantasy Coming To Terms With Eternity “Ok, so… how did your family end up with a vampire parrot, anyway??”
fantasy Lacking Words To Sprout Hollis was not surprised when a hooded crow landed on the branch she was sitting on, nor when it spoke with her grandfather’s voice.
urban fantasy A Ring Of Fire Holds Back The Forest's Vengeance The street-cleansers were hard at work again, their flamethrowers rooting out any hint of living green which intruded into the city. Just to be safe.
fantasy Buoyant Blessings From The Sea At the first light of dawn, as with every dawn, the children of the island rushed down to the ocean, combing their allotted stretch of shore. Praying to be blessed.
fantasy The Vault Of Arcane Neglect The air of the basement was dank and sour, undercut with the fizz of forbidden magics. The unhallowed graveyard of the Arcane Citadel’s guilty secrets.
urban fantasy April Vampires! Immortality is great and all, but being twenty-six forever gets old - for the people around you, if nothing else.
urban fantasy A Friend In Mead “Be careful not to drink too much at once - fey mead will give you a real buzz.” While Davis believed Cassiopeia’s warning, he hadn’t worried about it. Oops.
horror Gwen, Tell Me, Would You Rather... Gwen wasn’t pleased to be given some random new employee to “mentor”, even before whoever has her number started acting strange…
urban fantasy Urban Magical Survey Corps “I don’t understand.” Edna declared, in that managerial tone which seemed to expect reality to politely conform to the project plan.
urban fantasy A Special Meeting Of The Eldritch Botany Club Some people assumed that because the Eldritch Botany Club advertised itself as a “fun and friendly group”, you needn’t arrive precisely at the listed four o’clock. Nobody made that mistake twice.
scifi One-Point-Six To Twelve One-point six faces glared reproachfully from the dark corners of his improvised bunker. Twelve faces wept behind them. “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry…”
fantasy Ghoulishly Good Business Sense The carriage driver clicked to the horses, who took off with what, had the humans been paying more attention, might’ve seemed unusual eagerness to leave the warm and safe inn…
urban fantasy What Remains Of The Old Fortune Teller Once upon a time, when the trains still stopped at Puddleton and the town prospered, the Puddleton Green was indeed green, and the site of many a festival or visiting attraction. But since then…
3rd person PoV Empty Except For Belief In Protocol “Good morning, captain!” SEMA chirped. “Do you have any special instructions for today?” Captain Riley’s corpse did not answer.
3rd person PoV A Strange Domestic Bliss “My love.” Clifford said solemnly. “My muscle-bound pearl. My robust rose. While I would never denigrate your prowess or forceful presence… I have met your mother.”
3rd person PoV Coaching Your Human Is A Valuable Soft Skill Part of being a magical therapy dog is having trained in employee protection laws. As applies to both you AND your client.
3rd person PoV Gob Neighbours Mildred was in the middle of what she expected to be a perfectly normal delivery when… “A goblin!” As one the cooking staff - and the goblin - turned to look.
3rd person PoV Diner Etiquette For Nowhere Nowhere-On-Particular was a strange little riverside town. Quiet. Too worn-down to count as “quaint”. Cassie wasn’t planning on staying long...
3rd person PoV Birthday Supplications “PRESENT YOUR TRIBUTE, FOOLISH MORTALS, AND PRAY THAT I DEEM IT WORTHY!” “Well, um, I brought party hats…” “OOH, GIMMIE!”
3rd person PoV Links Across Years And Lives She perched on the end of the bed and inspected her reflection in the old, worn vanity mirror, and tried to remember when people started saying “you look so much like your mother”.
