Eight Legs Under Moonlight
Reading Time: 12 minutesIn a Victorian town plagued by werespiders, a curious spinster takes in a mysterious woman.
Short Stories
One Winter Night
Reading Time: 5 minutesA young girl, determined to catch Santa in the act, waits impatiently with a list of her own.
What We Hold On To
Reading Time: 13 minutesA mother and her young daughter fight to survive in a world ravaged by an ongoing world war between megacorporations.
The Nocturnality of Dorian Salva
Reading Time: 17 minutesDorian Salva is an artist with a consuming passion for birds. One night, his work-in-progress takes on an eerie life of its own, and the relationship between artist and subject, painter and painted, undergoes an uncanny reversal.
Goulash for a Ghoul
Reading Time: 5 minutesA fractured fable and a meal served up in a haunted castle.
Table 19
Reading Time: 17 minutesA woman tries to intervene with the fate of a young barista, but fate will not be cheated.
Clowns In The Woods
Reading Time: 31 minutesAn anxious young man gets more than he bargained for when he accompanies his fiance’s family on a hunting trip.
333 Years
Reading Time: 4 minutesHere we have an unexpected intersection of past and present when Fate takes a hand to things up.
The Wellington Methodology
Reading Time: 10 minutesScience fiction meets gothic in this story of a groundbreaking discovery gone wrong, and the horrifying fall of the titular scientist.
Betty And The Demon
Reading Time: 17 minutesWhen Irish-born Father Donahey retires to Winterset, he finds the community is awash with supernatural creatures, some friendly, many decidedly not.
Come the Waters High
Reading Time: 4 minutesA flash fantasy story about a High Priestess who must deal with rising tides that threaten to drown her people.
Control Alt Delete
Reading Time: 21 minutesBen is reveling in his tragically achieved freedom. He thinks he has it made, except for an elusive partner. Then an unknown woman first DMs then stands him up. His troubles have only begun when he realizes how thoroughly someone has infiltrated his technological fortress.
From Below
Reading Time: 15 minutesIn the aftermath of a climate apocalypse, Jeremy and Alex survive by supplying food to the wealthy people living above the water, in the penthouses of Old Manhattan. But the wealthy aren’t the only ones that are hungry.
My Brain Through Your Brain
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen Katie’s brain seems to jump out of sync she discovers another, almost identical, mind living inside her own. This duplicate mind gradually is not what she seems but instead something far more dangerous.
A Possession of Magpies
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen old Ms. Linton rescues a wounded magpie, memories of her past come winging back.
Compost
Reading Time: 4 minutesA mother, desperate to feed her young son, takes a risk that doesn’t pay off.
Silent at the Mouth
Reading Time: 4 minutesAfter an elective medical procedure, a “Blank” remains a living being, completely anonymized and freed from any visible identity. If one showed up in your life refusing to leave, would you remember who they once were and what they’d meant to you?
SEALAB IV
Reading Time: 11 minutes2,000 feet below the surface, are they the observers? Or the observed?
And Water’d Heaven With Their Tears
Reading Time: 19 minutesWhen a bioengineered “weapon” goes feral, a kill team is dispatched to retire it.
The Scrivener
Reading Time: 16 minutesBrother Silas is unhappy with his lot at the abbey. He sees no alternative until a unique manuscript comes his way.
Skins
Reading Time: 11 minutesA remote cabin in the southwest desert is the scene of an alien invasion, but it’s not what you think. Maybe the ghost hunters have it wrong.
I’ll Be Home For Christmas
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe holidays take on an ominous tone when a woman receives a phone call from the son she murdered.
Nuked
Reading Time: 8 minutesWhen a dead scientist calls a city paper to report a nuclear accident, the night reporter goes out to investigate. What he finds is completely alien.
Phantom
Reading Time: 9 minutesA little boy sees the ghost of an old man in the mirror. Or is it the old man who sees the ghost of a small boy?
Fractures Like Windows and Time
Reading Time: 8 minutesParenting is hard enough without help from the multiverse.
Out of the Darkness
Reading Time: 4 minutesA young girl, desperate to find her beloved pet, ventures out into the darkness.
Neighbors
Reading Time: 4 minutesBeing neighborly isn’t always easy. Morgred has to hold her tongue while her daughter makes other plans.
DC
Reading Time: 11 minutesA higher power watches a small group of primitive humans in the far future try to understand the alarms triggered by their presence in a long-abandoned city.
A Medieval Tale
Reading Time: 14 minutesA monk in a medieval priory faces the sudden appearance of aliens that seem strangely familiar, only to learn he was once one of them.
Past Due
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn a world where holograms allow us to hang on even past death, a young man needs to make a hard choice.
Whispers Of Death
Reading Time: 8 minutesA teenager pushes another teenager into an abandoned well and leaves him there to die. But the victim has other ideas.
Deadbolt
Reading Time: 13 minutesJess thought she’d left Derek behind, casting away his ring in the floods of a Seattle storm. But Derek was promised forever, and with another storm brewing, he’s going to remind her just how long forever is.
10207
Reading Time: 6 minutesProbably nothing bad happens after you donate your body to science, right?
Flowers for Humanity
Reading Time: 4 minutesA haunting tale of the Fundamental Equation of life in this Universe, and its accidental misapplication by the hidden god of the ancients.
The Last Thing Taken
Reading Time: 9 minutesWhen Sophia meets Oloku, she thinks it’s the perfect, strings-free affair. But when she learns his secret, she finds there’s a price to pay for loving him.
The Road to Vitebsk
Reading Time: 4 minutesA dedicated officer refuses to leave until others are safe. Death sometimes does not defer duty.
Magic Makes Fools of Us All
Reading Time: 4 minutesAn unusual family plots a summer camping trip that will satiate their blood-lust. It doesn’t go entirely as planned.
The Ways We Played the Game
Reading Time: 6 minutesA LitRPG jam in Singapore, with a code that really works for those that want to try it.
Fingal’s Cave
Reading Time: 17 minutesA rogue scientist’s intrepid search for life becomes a metaphoric and existential journey of the heart that explores how we connect and communicate—with one another and the universe—a journey intimately connected with water.
Behind the Standing Stones
Reading Time: 4 minutesCraig and Hailey had very different ideas about how to celebrate their anniversary. One wanted sunshine and drinks on an island beach. The other was more interested in the enchantments that might be found beyond the standing stones.
Follow Me
Reading Time: 21 minutesWhen Influencer Jan Pham downloads an app from the dark web that promises fame, fortune, and – most importantly – more followers, she gets more than she bargained for.
Ashes
Reading Time: 17 minutesThirty years after the Burn, Jackson, an aging ex-soldier, is just trying to survive. A moral person in a world where morality isn’t a particularly good survival trait, Jackson has to choose between his self-interest and doing what’s right.
The Update
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen an almost heavenly woman, Sister Mary, dies she expects she’ll go straight to heaven. But the stranger who shows up for her soul has a trick up his cell phone.
It’s Not in Your Head
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen The Soul© chip is implanted in the cerebral cortex at birth, it’s imagined it will create an immortal soul. But there are problems.