Breadcrumb Home Chapters Just...one...more...chapter... Issue 10 November, 2024 The Box & the Bodies I didn’t know how long I sat there watching her sleep. Her frail form, shrouded in a linen blanket, faintly... Read now! November, 2024 21st Century Witches One afternoon when I was 10 years old, my mom took me and my sister Celia aside and told us... Read now! November, 2024 Aldwyn and Crom: Hunters - Chapter 5 Crom and Aldwyn gathered by the eastern entrance of Himmeldorf, the midday sunlight glinting off their new equipment. Choosing everything... Read now! November, 2024 Plastic Rain and Plastic Bodies Jackal leaped across the street, sailing from one rooftop to the other. The white plastic fell from the... Read now! Issue 9 October, 2024 All the Leaves Are Dead, Chapter 1: Doomed to Be a Mormon After weeks on end of Epsom salt baths and scrubbing away dried blood, Michael itched for a way to open... Read now! October, 2024 Introduction, Impressioned Memories The back bedroom. That's the name I had for it. A corner room in the back of the house, hidden... Read now! October, 2024 Andy After examining the evidence and spending much time in denial, Andy eventually accepted the truth: he was an accident. Unwanted... Read now! October, 2024 Corrupted Dynasty Prologue Only the gods chose who heard them. At least, that was the way it was supposed to be. Airships drifted lazily... Read now! Issue 8 April, 2024 The Girl in the Garden Carmella is born in a house built by her father’s indignation. It’s a ramshackle thing, constructed of scraps taken from... Read Now! April, 2024 Post-It The two-story restaurant taking up the space on the corner of 4th and Parker seemed charming – it was family-friendly... Read Now! Issue 7 March, 2024 The Library To find the library, you must not look. You must let it catch you. Lose the chase. Stumble at the... Read Now! March, 2024 Any Last Words - Chapter 1 Arwyn Olentia had always hated running. However, as her bare feet slapped against the cutting gravel and chilled wind struck... Read Now! March, 2024 A Cursed Eternity - Prologue Vittoria awoke one summer night with her skin drenched in sweat. She wrapped her arms around her stomach where a... Read Now! Issue 6 February, 2024 Sister, Please Bible Grove hasn't changed in the absence of the two Stephens sisters Sadie Stephens takes this in the way she takes in the decaying... Read now! February, 2024 Of Footballs and Fangs: The Party Nate just stares at Emmet when he opens the door. Emmet gulps as those all-American blue eyes rove over him... Read now! February, 2024 Dogma-Chapter One The first thing Finn Aurora saw was a corpse. It lay face up next to him on the ground, deathly bluish gray, on the verge... Read now! February, 2024 Ouroboros The Child was killing a snake the second time the carriage came by, Helé and Lios high in the sky. His father's... Read now! February, 2024 The Star Harvester There is a girl who collects stars, but she keeps her feet planted on the ground. She swipes at them... Read now! Issue 5 November, 2023 Soul Collection Services-Chapter Three “Turn me.” The words rang through Ezra’s head. This was all her fault. She just wanted to spend more time with... Read now! November, 2023 New Producer Ariane was dead. She was buried under five layers of alternating sand and gravel, topped off with a final layer... Read now! Issue 4 October, 2023 Soul Collection Services-Chapter Two Over the next few weeks, Wren was pleasantly surprised by Ezra’s work ethic. When training, she had shown an attention... Read now! October, 2023 Peculiar Friend The sun was hanging low in a painted sky over the kingdom of Hawthorn when Safiyah drew her cream puffs... Read now! October, 2023 Bone My graduating class doesn’t talk about Andrew Bone. Not that anyone really disliked him. Honestly, you could argue we all... Read now! Issue 3 September, 2023 Knights of Horntree-Prologue “Do you know the story of the Druid?” The young boy shook his head, looking up at the old and... Read now! September, 2023 The Void It was a strange sort of comfort, death. It seemed to give even the most painful days somekind of... Read now! September, 2023 Ramen Dinner The night before I go, Xander and Li request my presence at Ramen Dinner. It’s an old tradition from college... Read now! September, 2023 Soul Collection Services-Chapter One The flicker of fluorescent lights made Wren look up from their file and sigh. It was too early in the morning... Read now! Issue 2 March, 2023 The Storm-Chapter One The sensible man is well aware that ghosts do not exist. No matter the subtle movements of the shadows in the gloaming, or the distant... Read now! March, 2023 The Ritual-Chapter Two To this day, I often wonder to myself whether any of the past really ever happened... Read now! January, 2023 Phantom Woods-Chapter One Owen stepped from the car. He threw a bag over his shoulder and squinted against the dying sun’s light. A house stood before him, monolithic... Read now! January, 2023 The World Darkens-Prologue A god shouldn’t have to come down to its world to do its own dirty work. Useless fucks, the lot of ‘em. Nothing gets done... Read now! Issue 1 April, 2022 You Will Be Missed-Chapter Two Jesse and I slept in the back of my mother’s van with the seats lowered. I woke up in the middle of the night, hair... Read now! March, 2022 Wrecked in the Dark “Oh fuck,” Kito breathed as she looked across the mangled remains of the ship’s catwalk, the metal grates clinging to the barely intact ceiling like the... Read now! April, 2022 Operation Dauntless Eagle No matter how much my weary eyes begged me to give them the rest they reasonably deserved, I refused to give in to their temptation... Read now! February, 2022 Ouroboros Ava’s house was filled with all sorts of odd, dusty antiques. Broken clocks and old photos sat between yellowed books in... Read now! February, 2022 The Water Sings to the Unawake-Chapter Four The rain was relentless. It pounded downward upon the mud-filled streets of the small, unnamed port town in the region of Vor, clotting the cracks... Read now! February, 2022 The Immolated Girl-Chapter Five “We’re here,” murmur the people around you, a quiet game of telephone from the front, where M has raised a hand to signal everyone to... Read now!
