urban fantasy Horticultural Tensions Everyone knew the village Flower Show was a FRIENDLY competition. Lizzie and Dom would be the first to tell you so. And the last people anyone would believe.
urban fantasy A Diverse Collection Of Chronic Conditions, All Supported Janeen let herself in with confidence - only to pause. Perhaps she should've read more of the “chronic conditions support group” website…
urban fantasy When The Laws Of Hospitality Are Binding Crossing into the Fey Realm was much the same as any other boarder, until Imogen was pulled over about the contents of her snack suitcase…
urban fantasy The Crip's Club Magic Clubhouse At first, everyone thought it a hilarious joke that someone had put a “crip’s club” sign on the unused utility cupboard…
urban fantasy The Invisible Undergrad Hanna, student support counsellor, looked up as her door opened and smiled at the hula hoop levitating at shoulder height. “Oh, hello Greg! How are you today?”
urban fantasy More Like Super-Sensitivity “Er, hello? I was wondering if you have any nose plugs which would work for humans?”
urban fantasy Pushing Through The Veil To Push Back The Known Record Dr Madini stepped into the… well, the esteemed Council of Chronoseers would likely take umbrage at this slick professional space being referred to as a “petitioning chamber”...
urban fantasy Love Is Love, Especially When It's Also Alchemical Science! A mad alchemist learns his masterpiece has achieved an unheard-of development for an artificial lifeform - but not quite how he’d expected…
fantasy Engraved By A Thousand Passing Souls Master Yorick sighed. “If by ‘it’ you mean ‘the concerted collaboration of thousands of souls across a timespan which makes us look like mayflies’… yes, that’s it.”
urban fantasy Extrinsic Dichotomies “Ooh, this is exciting!” The statue said. “I’ve never been interviewed before. I mean, I haven’t been a god for very long, but…”
urban fantasy Love Takes Many Forms “You’d really want to date someone who never wears the same face twice?”
urban fantasy A Timeless And Influential Character Assassination “Hellllo hello hello! This is Queer AF FM, I’m your host River White and I’m thrilled to announce that with me today is THE Carmilla Karnstein!”
scifi Skulkers Rise For Sundown “Well EXCUSE ME for worrying about my buddy in the middle of a MONSTER INFESTED APOCALYPSE!”
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…”
scifi An Unexpected Stopover Between Mars And Atlantis Ok, you got all sorts of lousy japes pulled at a major spaceport like this, but this was something else. “Atlantis, huh?”
autobiographical fiction A Death Of Imagination At some point I might get used to having what is effectively an imaginary friend tangibly present, and in fact lolling at the foot of my bed. But not yet.
urban fantasy Wearing Your Heart On Your Back Cathy wasn’t surprised that her brother Carl ignored her calls for weeks. But she was surprised, and immediately concerned, when HE then called HER.
urban fantasy A Cocoon Of Not Quite Pure Chaos Norm was being held prisoner, he was certain of it. The one thing this mercurial madhouse refused to produce was an exit.
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?
horror Heard Through Itching Bones If Maggie had been asked what she was doing at The Dig, she probably would’ve mumbled something about looking for work. But nobody asked. There was no need. They understood.
horror A Jesterly Welcome I always scoffed at stories which start with people stranded in the middle of nowhere without shelter or phone signal. Guess the joke’s on me…
urban fantasy Regression To Norm Norman Smith had been voted the most boring person at every school he’d attended, which was particularly impressive given none of them had ever put “most boring” on the list of categories to vote for.
urban fantasy Joint Deprogramming For A Better World Just imagine - if he’d been carrying any other book, she would have left him as a squirrel…
urban fantasy Hubris, Ice, And Steel Since time immemorial, humanity had bargained with the forces who controlled the ocean. But Thomas Andrews Jr was done with asking.
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…”
