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...

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...

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...

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 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...

I offered her a ticket to Wonderland… …but that ticket came with an unexected price. Let me tell you this right now. I'm not a good person. So when I promise to meet someone at five a.m. in the morning...

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...

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...

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...

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...

One little girl.  Buffalo-demons stampede out of the earth to steal one little half-blood girl, and everything changes.  Aloysius’s little brother Jerome goes missing with her--two inseparable kids whose...

"What everyone want to see," the crow said, "is someone getting eaten. Preferably someone who deserves it." Out in the middle of nowhere in the Great Plains of the United States, it doesn't matter where...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

What is the true story of Castle Frankenstein, the inspiration for Mary Shelley's famous novel? Was there ever a mad scientist? A monster? A pursuit across the Arctic ice? Because there is a Castle Frankenstein,...

Sometimes a book comes out of your soulYou're taking a train ride from Alabama to the Chinatown in San Francisco to be with your mother, who is dying of cancer.  The year is sometime in the 1920s.  A...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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,...