microfiction Blink And You'll Hear It I thought this was going to be a nice, easy job. After all the supernatural threats I’ve hunted and wrangled, this one sounded well-behaved…
microfiction A Resilient Heart-Vine Karen had never understood the appeal of gardening. She was happy with her plastic plants and synthetic lawn. So where did that vine come from?
microfiction A Shelter For Winter While the rest of the region suffers a heat wave, Charles is enjoying time next to the eternally frozen lake.
microfiction One Last Promise All that remained of that long-forgotten god was at the beginning of the year promises still froze and dropped from your lips like a perfect ice teardrop.
microfiction I'll Call Them Serendipity Any minute now the clock would strike midnight, and the geasa would be set for the year. Needed to find Beth a suitable resolution FAST.
microfiction The Door To Possibility The Door was a constant. No matter where you were, or what state you were in, at the moment where the old year turned into the new, everyone encountered the Door.
microfiction A Time To Address What Lingers Unfinished Ah, the last hour of the year. And Cathie was due a break anyway; might as well let all the lingering resolutions in and address them.
microfiction Suspended On Promises And Paved With Resolutions It’s a dream, I remind myself, and like every other year this doesn’t quite comfort me. After all, it affects the real world…
microfiction The Winds Of Transformation Nobody said you SHOULDN’T be outside at midnight on the last day of the year. But they did take pains to warn you about the consequences…
microfiction Spring Travelling For Seasonal Business We’ve done this for thousands of years, you’d think by now I could get a VIP pass or something…
microfiction Slipping Between Threads As a child Harold’s ‘split existence’ didn’t bother him. Most of the year his bedtime was before darkness fell anyway…
microfiction Buying A Reason I’d known about the Midnight Market since I was a child but never been before. It’s as eerie as everyone claims. I hope they’re also right about what you can buy here…
microfiction An Impartial Third Liminal Opinion While newborn care had caused Kyle to slip into hallucinations before, this was a dozy of a lack-of-sleep vision.
short story A Foxy Christmas This Christmas, Amanda’s buried past returns. Will she go to earth, or face it?
microfiction Traded For Tender Amber Song It’s that time again - the spirits have visited. What did they take, and what did they leave in its place?
microfiction Wistless Barry hadn’t gotten anything (other than cereal) out of his cereal box since he was a child, and certainly never an explosion of sparkles bearing an invitation…
microfiction The Wandering Door To Somewhere How long had that door been there? While there was nothing odd about the design, it was starkly out of place...
microfiction A Dear Sister's Frosty Advice I was surprised to get a knock at my door, and shocked it was a postie. All the way out here? But it only got stranger…
microfiction Blessed Bread Bane Managing fey-human relations involves all sorts of jobs, but this is a uniquely CRUMBy situation to unpick…
microfiction Honeyed Memory Wrapped In Waxen Forgetting “The bees know their way home, grandma. It’s not like they’d forget.”
microfiction The Ghosts Of Holidays Long Past Perhaps it was the spiced wine, or the memories of holidays past, but August found himself reflecting on the puzzle of mortality.
microfiction A Party To Deceit That familiar masked figure blocking the alley meant my hopes were dashed - unless I can convince what I could not escape…
microfiction Pushing The Boundaries It was a comfortably dull day in the grants administration department - until Professor Williams stormed in.