horror Don’t Trust Every Ritual You Read On The Internet Emily hugged her knees to her chin and stared at her laptop. She could recite the ritual by now, but she still couldn’t figure out what went wrong. “I didn’t mean to…”
urban fantasy All Perfectly In Hand Part 1 Featureless space hastily produced serviceable ground as a pointedly nondescript door appeared. Let the party preparations begin…
urban fantasy A Witchy One-Night Stand This was always the make-or-break point. While plenty of men SAID they were down with banging a witch, once they saw your living space…
urban fantasy Exposure Therapy With A Trained Professional Dr Sonya looked up and wagged her tail. “Hello. Mr Jones, here for treatment of cynophobia, correct?”
urban fantasy A Mundane Kind Of Magic At first the bookshelf considered its unexpected ‘retirement’ a fall from grace. Going from a wizard tower to a mundane library was quite a shock…
urban fantasy Lurk Laugh Love In Style The group’s torches panned around the dank space, the lonely beams glinting off the murky water pooling on the uneven stone floor and dripping down the walls. “My word…”
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.
urban fantasy Fortuitously Synchronised Treat Placement Caroline vainly tried to ignore the fey spider dangling overhead - now the comparative size of a pony. She just had to get to the cookie jar. That was the deal.
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…
urban fantasy Bold As That Midnight Muse I just put the alumnus stream on for something to listen to while dusting, I never expected to have THAT MOMENT flung in my face, much less like this…
urban fantasy A Load-Bearing Poison Divinely Banished Of all the old gods to bring about the end times, nobody would’ve bet on Hermes. Nor did they expect the curse he laid: “That’s it, no more lying.”
scifi Eliminating Jammy Tells CHUNK. The twice-carboniser disgorges the recarbonised slabs. My test begins.
urban fantasy Librarian, Schoolteacher, And Oldest Fragile Friend On the grandchildren’s previous visits Laura had completely ignored her grandma’s cherished doll collection. But this time…
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 The Doughthumper Goes Under New Ownership It was fortunate vampires were hard to intimidate, for Gulthrug was taking the prospect of turning his orcish bakery into a tearoom as well as expected…
urban fantasy Fresh And Juicy Country Fair Gossip “Bessie!” Doris tilted her head back so she could beam from under her beribboned straw hat. “I thought you weren’t coming, this year.”
horror Don't Feed The Well “Money makes the world go wrong.” That’s what granddad always used to say. I didn’t understand until after he died…
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.
urban fantasy Redivivus Writing Meets Because you shouldn’t let a small fact like being dead stop you from chasing authorial dreams.
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.
urban fantasy The Travails Of Draconic Subletting “Now, I’m SURE you read the listing very carefully, but to be sure we’re all on the same page, yes the castle has a genuine dragon living in it, who is the LEGAL OWNER…”
urban fantasy A Simple Masquerade Turns Interesting Hanna is tired of being nagged about getting a boyfriend, so decided to use her skills to concoct a front. What could go wrong…
urban fantasy Facing The Cold With A Friend And A Bucket When Laura had answered the volunteer call, she’d told them she could host a SMALL dragon. Turns out their definition of “small” differed from hers… but she was glad of the company.
urban fantasy An Unexpected Piscine Flood Victim “DAAAAD!!” Molly’s squeal cut the unusual silence, sounding both excited and horrified. “THERE’S A CRYING FISH!”
