1st person PoV Pairing Echoes I know desperation when I see it. Any seller of, ahem, metaphysically enhanced items develops that sense quickly…
1st person PoV Portrait Perfect Memories I rarely accept business call-outs in the middle of the night, but Aldreda was in my, ahem, social circle, and sounded deeply upset…
3rd person PoV Life In Waves “What do you mean, ‘the river doesn’t want to be dammed’?” Robert scoffed, his elegantly waxed moustache bristling at the absurdity.
3rd person PoV Haunting & Hexes Helpline “Hello, this is ‘Haunting & Hexes Helpline’, what’s your magical malady?” “I, uh… think I might have cursed someone?”
3rd person PoV Handling Inter-Realm Travel At Peak Maggy strode into the Cross-Vale checkpoint with the confident swagger of the most senior employee present. Viewed as the backbone of the team, she was a certified Good Dog.
1st person PoV Have You Bitten My Brother? 2 The docs say I’m human. Now I just have to survive my parents being mad…
3rd person PoV A Fabulous Fabella's Birthday To be fair, normally getting children to write letters to their favourite fictional characters was a perfectly harmless activity…
1st person PoV Have You Bitten My Brother? If the legends are wrong, I’m alone for 65 days of arctic winter. If the legends are true, I’m about to face vampires.
3rd person PoV An Unamused Muse Persists Of all the times Addyth had wished muses could turn corporeal just to shake people, this was the worst. If she didn’t figure something out soon the poor idea seed would wither!
1st person PoV Out Of Defined Service A hospital hallway is surely one of the best places to have a stress breakdown and start hallucinating, so hopefully I’ll be alright. I mean, I MUST be hallucinating… right?
3rd person PoV Cutting Away The Kiss Of Death “Do you have another plan? ANY idea other than putting a bullet in my head right now? Then shut up and do it.”
1st person PoV Definitely Some Kind Of Karma I wish I knew what I’d DONE in my previous life to get stuck with this. Am I being punished? Rewarded? Or just put to work?
3rd person PoV A Doubled Life It all started on that long-ago August afternoon, where a decision split her life…
3rd person PoV A Professional Failing Before demons returned, suffering from “burnout” meant needing time off and perhaps a relaxing retreat. Now it meant waking up chained to a hospital bed… if you were lucky.
microfiction Migration Routes Have Shifted In The Last Millennia Now, Oscar was used to trying to shoo people out of protected waters. But before they’d always been, well, VEHICLES where they shouldn’t be. Whereas this…
microfiction Seven Generations Of Excellent Literary Management Ugh. They’re arguing again. What a terrible waste of an otherwise pleasant afternoon. I sigh and stretch one paw towards the flirtatious sunbeam…
microfiction Hide And Seek And Find Normally the group wouldn’t even THINK of dabbling in magic, much less scary stuff like this, but Lorna had been missing for days…
microfiction Almost Close Enough The frozen lake was a breathtaking sight, light reflecting off its surface so the surrounding woods was up-lit - the perfect natural photoshoot. Kathy had never been so lucky…
microfiction A Ward Of Silence Stifled Dawn Kyle didn’t think it strange Granny was agitated; knowing you’re dying must be dreadfully stressful…
microfiction A Trying Reflection Avoiding all reflections for the week was annoying, but NECESSARY. Mira knew what happened to people who didn’t heed the danger…
microfiction Earthbound Passenger Riding Cargo The mess hall fell silent as Jerry walked in. Nobody looked up. Certainly nobody looked AT him. He wished he knew WHY.
microfiction A Vigilant Gaze Unpeels Nina knew the vigil was for the greater good, but of course she was going to worry about her son having been chosen for it.
microfiction Born Of Dreams Why am I afraid? This is a dream. I’m in control. But the fear persists regardless.