It was a town of a hundred and eleven souls out in the middle of nowhere, Wyoming.  After Jeremy Quick disappeared, a hundred and ten. Private investigator Linda Crow has been called in by Jeremy Quick's...

You need to write, I told the newbie writers at the writer's conference. Unused gifts turn to poison. What I didn't tell them was that I was currently drinking that poison myself. Liz Hicks is a mystery...

A haunting tale of a monster who lived inside mirrors, and the ghost he left behind when he died… What would you do to get rid of an abusive ghost? When Michael's father died, he left behind a grown-up...

An Urban Fantasy / Women's Fantasy Fiction Short StoryAn urban explorer breaks into what was once the United States' "most haunted asylum" in order to test a theory that people will only sense ghosts...

What makes the fae so terrifying is how subtle they are… One foggy night, Lee Warnick waits for her dad to come home from the factory. Lately, more and more people have been disappearing from her small...

Dames, detectives, and deception…magic meets the decadence of the Roaring Twenties in ten tales of glitter and jazz. The year is 1929. It's two months after the financial collapse on Wall Street, and...

REVENGE IS BEST SERVED FOR DESSERT. With her first cooking class (as a teacher!!!) coming up, her catering business starting to take off, and her heart starting to recover from her divorce, Sam Genoise...

YOU DON'T HAVE TO FACE THE WITCH HOUSE ALONE Jayla Jackson is a witch. Or is she? She dresses in black, has zero friends, is super-smart, and doesn't fit in. But that doesn't make her a witch… …right? When...

One thing was certain, that the zombies had everything to do with it...Almost nine years have passed since that golden afternoon when gentleman zombie Charles Dodgson told Alice Liddell and her two sisters...

Bill Trout didn’t set out to get involved with aliens. He just wanted to run his damned brewery and heal up from being abandoned by his ex-wife. But that ain’t the way things worked out, and now he has...

SPOOKY SHORT FICTION - PERFECT FOR A HALLOWEEN NIGHT!Thirty-one short horror tales of ghosts, haunted houses, vampires black cats, mad science, weird plants, demons, zombies, and Halloween. From the surreal...

Fiction Writers: Lost? Stuck? Stressed? What writer hasn't asked themselves how they will know when their story is ready to publish? Or how to handle feedback about their stories? Or what to do if they...

Bernice had a good life with Bobby. She mighta been the second wife but to him she was number one. Then he died of cancer--something that not even the modern docs who could treat a ninety-year-old man...

It's thirty years to the day that Jim lost the love of his life, Laina Jarvy, back in 1929. Now a colleague's wife has a gift for him: a watch that will take him back in time to save Laina, and instructions...

A desperate mother summons the spirits as her infant son's last hope...but what if she's wrong?A group of women hold a seance on a dark and snowy winter's night to summon forth wisdom from beyond the...

When things look darkest, it's time to dance… Connor McDevitt has a talent: reading fortunes. It's not exactly going to waste; on Saturdays he tells fortunes as Doctor Rudolfo at the local toys and games...

Fiction writer?  Feeling like you should be getting some writing done but somehow not getting anywhere? Want to write something but don't have the brain to decide what? Want to try something new? First,...

What's the matter, Jake? Chicken? It's Halloween. Just over a month ago, Jake's brother Dave died in Afghanistan, killed by an IED bomb. Now Jake is going trick or treating, dressed like a solder. Dressed...

A mirror that changes you into the person you should have been...but only temporarily. A suicidal cancer victim who makes the ultimate sacrifice: searching for the fountain of youth in order to live just...

Pink-haired goth Tiff Cordero isn't a witch.  She's a clairaliant, someone who smells spirits. And she's been hired to sniff out a ghost who has recently started to give migraines to the patrons of a...

Vlad keeps so many secrets that they surround him like a cloak of mist:  one secret hides another, protects another.  He’s a gay man in Volgograd, Russia…and a drug dealer…and a vedmak, a witch, who can...

Her daughter went through an alien portal......but only her body came back. Three alien portals open on Earth, leading to unknown worlds.The first portal leads to a world of ice and snow.The second portal...

London, England. 1840.Gangs of four- and five-year-old orphans are being used as "apprentice" chimney sweeps--they're the only ones who can fit down the narrow chimneys, taking brushes and baskets down...

Witches weave curses out of words; the less you use ‘em, the more powerful they are. Blessings are weaker—but you can use them more often, wear them in like shoes.Judith’s red-headed granddaughter Molly,...

What would it mean, to truly believe in yourself…if your future self could travel through time? Angie has left her past behind, keeping only the slightest of ties with her sister, a brilliant mathematician...

The house was creepy. No getting around that. Windows covered on the inside with tinfoil so nobody could look in. And barred on the outside so nobody could get out. KEEP OUT and BEWARE OF DOGS signs everywhere....

A novelette of swindlers, dames, and a millionaire with a pig.Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1925.  Right before New Year's Day.Genevra Valentine is a roper, someone who brings in marks for a team of con artists...

Something's going on in the new apartment building.  Something small…something blue…something that likes to steal things out of your kitchen trash can. Not a rat, not a mole, not a vole, not a gopher…what?The...

London, England. 1840.The Chimney Sweep Act has just been passed by Parliament, forbidding the use of underaged orphans as chimney sweeps’ assistants—four- and five-year-olds are being sent down into...

God’s work weighs on Sebastian, a new priest, harder than most.  But dealing with demons is his penance, and God never makes a burden harder than you can carry.  Or so he believes when the rivalry between...