horror A Trade Traded And Untraded Nobody’s called me “DanDan” since I was, what, nine? But that wasn’t even the weirdest thing about the stranger who’d walked up to me on my way home from the shops…
horror An Unwitting Accessory To Interstellar Smuggling Hotels are expensive in a major spaceport like this, so friends ask to crash at my place all the time. I didn’t think anything of it…
3rd person PoV Looking Through Another Kidnapped Pair Of Eyes In Arnold’s defence, it was perfectly reasonable to assume this person was affiliated with the university and the ‘research project’ had been properly vetted…
horror Seeing What Lingers Via Afterimages It was a vital step in finding ghosts, but Alfred had never gotten used to staring directly at a bright light.
horror A Bout Of Unprecedented Sleepwalking And Nothing More “My life is a lie. And I’m winning.” That’s what the note said. And it certainly looks like my handwriting. I don’t understand…
horror The Owner Of The Simmons Toyshop Stanley was pleased to be left Mr Simmons’s old toy shop. He had so many plans for the place…
urban fantasy A Haunting Cohabitation It’s a truly peaceful night; a light rain patters on my roof and everything, for once, is completely under control. Then the door to the basement rattles.
fantasy Earning Dreamwielder Marks Tanya strode into the cave without hesitation, for mundane darkness was no barrier to a Dreamwielder. And, given the sulphurous tang, she suspected she was in the right place…
horror Payment For Greed “Excuse me, did you drop this?” I nearly jump out of my skin. Spinning to look behind me, where I’m CERTAIN there was nobody a moment ago.
scifi Anomalical Managerial Concern As I unseal the double doors I’m hit with a dissonant wash of cheap bleach and expensive cologne. Great. There goes any hope of getting off work early today…
scifi A Transformative Love For Nature Alright. This was it. Point of no return. Once wire cutters touched warning-plastered government owned fence, she was officially in BIG trouble if anyone caught her.
fantasy A Safe Harbour, Siren Free Captain Scarlett pushed her cap back to appraise the lass loitering awkwardly by the gangplank. “Can I help ya?”
urban fantasy A Gap In The Joists “Hello, this is ‘Haunting & Hexes Helpline’, what’s your magical malady?” “Is there a way to tell if you’re being haunted? There’s this dream I’ve always had…”
fantasy Steered By The Heart-Compass Everyone knew the tale - stick a compass needle into someone’s heart, lash them to the wheel, and you’d be steered safely home no matter the weather. Nobody had ever wanted to test it, but…
urban fantasy Vivvy And Friends Redux Why was someone trying so hard to recover all the copies of a small indy stop-motion film based on an obscure old children’s cartoon?
scifi A Flight Curtailed Last checks before launch. Careful now, if this goes wrong we’re all in for it…
urban fantasy Painstaking Authentication “I assumed that stuff about ‘bodysnatchers’ was a joke to distract from whatever’s actually researched here. But, seeing all this…”
urban fantasy Direct To The End Of The Line Why don’t I remember getting on this train? I, I don’t think I normally take the train home… and why haven’t we reached a station?
urban fantasy A Dream Of A Memory Of A Door Howard was sure he’d had a dream. After all, if you remembered something that definitely never happened, having dreamt it was the only logical explanation...
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.
horror Out Fishing For Urban Sharks I slither from my burrow and taste the air. Ah, perfect hunting weather. But first, I should put my Guise on. What kind of predators do I want to eat today?
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.
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…
