Reading Time: 5 minutesOn a farm one winter night in the late 1930s, the children are left at home alone by their parents when a snowstorm descends…

Reading Time: 15 minutesThe stares the cats gave them felt uncomfortably sentient; they were not only watching, they were knowing; contemplating; judging.

Reading Time: 24 minutesA man becomes obsessed with crystal egg and the mystical town captured inside it.

Reading Time: 3 minutesOur heroine has fangs, fur, and an agenda.

Reading Time: 4 minutesA road trip through Southern Quebec becomes chaotic when multiple navigation systems start bickering. With his wife asleep, the driver is caught between OnStar’s Southern drawl, Google’s British precision, and an unexpected voice from FordPass, turning a simple drive into a comedic tech showdown.

Reading Time: 14 minutesRenna’s quest for knowledge takes her to a hidden library, and the path to its doors reveals a town’s strange undercurrents.

Reading Time: 5 minutesA timeworn witch, the last of her coven, fights her young replacement to cling to the post she’s held for centuries as the steward of the Mother Tree.

Reading Time: 5 minutesA woman goes home to visit her parents, even though every visit causes their house to shrink.

Reading Time: 3 minutesA weary mother’s wish comes true when her toddler’s toys mysteriously start tidying themselves. As she embraces the magic, she soon learns that all enchantments—like the holiday season—must come to an end.

Reading Time: 25 minutes“Magic may be held by any hand and bred by any soul. That was one of your grandmother’s most insistent lessons. It is all just a matter of discipline, and passion.”

Reading Time: 9 minutesA cable network host of the paranormal, Dr. Knute Quinn, ignores his old professor’s warnings about investigating shadow creatures, monstrosities much more aggressive and dangerous compared to the more passive shadow figures, dedicating his premiere second season telecast to the subject . . . with horrific consequences.

Reading Time: 2 minutesAboard a spaceship of giants is a school in which a teacher uses the creatures of Earth to show his pupils that the value of life is not determined by its size.

Reading Time: 4 minutesHumans consume micro-plastics and nano-plastics in huge quantities starting in the womb. These plastics never leave the body. Yet the public rejoices in the advent of micro-organisms that consume plastic wherever it might be. Should we really thank nature for taking out the trash this way?

Reading Time: 5 minutesIn the quiet depths of an Ottawa laboratory, Malcolm Reiner dared to rewrite the very fabric of biology, pursuing the dream of mirror-image life forms—an uncharted path on the edge of human understanding.

Reading Time: 17 minutesKyle ducked his head as a spinning flapjack narrowly missed him. He brandished a batter-covered spatula at Derek. “Cease fire at once! You know that’s against the Breakfast Geneva Code!”