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...

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...

Three women.  One serial killer who has access to the supernatural. He can scare them...but he can't stop them from taking revenge.A small Midwestern college town.  A series of murders that ape the Jack...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Can't drink the water, can't drive around the potholes, can't sleep for gunshots at night, can't trust the locks on your doors. But you can trust the creepy white van that's been parking around your neighborhood...

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...

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...

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...

At sunrise and sunset, the sky burns like it's on fire and the old broken bridge over the railroad tracks on the far side of town stretches across the universes.  At the end of the bridge are the fairies…Della...

The year is 1816, in Northamptonshire. A red, spiderwebbed haze covers the sun. Temperatures drop, fields flood and freeze, grain rots on the stem. The people are starving, and even the wealthy and titled...

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...

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...

It took her husband's death in order to get the money to buy their first, brand-new house......and now it's haunted by someone Julie's never met.Julie moves into her brand-new house in her brand-new housing...

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...

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...

What does normal even mean...and why does it seem so fake?Let me tell you...31 tales of normal things gone wrong. Everything from coffee to gift cards to having friends over. 31 innocuous, even delightful...

Driving halfway across the country, somewhere north of New Orleans, bored, radio dead, and your passenger asleep. The phone buzzes with a new text message. Escaping a bad marriage is difficult. If you...

It's the end of the world and my daughter is worried that we'll be late for the circus … The worst has happened and the zombie apocalypse has destroyed civilization as we know it, trapping people in the...

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...

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...

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...

Once upon a time...Napoléon Buonoparte did not ally himself with the armies of France during the French Revolution, but sought power instead in Britain, where his subtlety and planning was met with reticience...

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....

Secrets:  Everybody's got one or two...Even before the stock market crash of 1929, Eliza lives in a world of secrets as a legal secretary to a wizened old lawyer in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.  If...

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,...