She met me at my cabin door. She knocked. I opened.And then she was in my arms, smothering me with kisses.I recognized that scent, that hair, those lips."Mary, I..."She put a finger on my lips. "Shhhh..."The...

The new shoes were paid for with time itself.Two women came this day, in search of an artisan to make them a pair of shoes from scratch.Not just repair some cheaply-made shoes, but to get a proper pair...

Sunset found me trying to understand why the small herd I was caring for was nervous and bawling.It wasn't long before I saw what they were looking up at. Or rather, who.Three human-sized females, each...

"Whoa, what's that smell?!?"I just gestured toward the mercenary "agents" who had kidnapped me. "They have some problems with their digestion."Bound and gagged, the agents in question had very miserable...

The last she remembered of her childhood was being trapped in a stone chapel.At the single door were a mob of villagers with torches she formerly thought were her friends.Once those doors were broken...

Gods and goddesses roamed the earth for millenia.Some hold that they still do.Two babes were born in the King's Forest, hunted by the King's soldiers and two Duke's armies. Life there was protected -...

To rescue a 12,000 year old ghost, you have to learn to breathe water.Our next mystery to solve was the toughest yet. We thought ourselves prepared to deal with being submerged several hundred feet below...

Her club. Her rules. Except where magic came in. Then it was her way or the highway.And all of her regulars knew not to cross that line. Vamps, psychics, shifters, they were all welcome. But any serious...

An old enemy found me, and left me powerless - when I was only trying to help her.We'd met year ago, and she became trapped in the mystic world she'd created, on of evil and retribution for imagined offenses.I...

It started with a dream.In it, John Earl Stark solved the problem of a ghost he met. Or did he? It was a dream, after all.The next day he meets two women who visit his cabin, arriving out of the blue,...

She'd been waiting to kill me for a very long time. And run out of patience at last. So she pulled me to her across time and space. Just so she could end my life. Painfully. Violently.But first, she had...

Fighting off a rampaging troll in the woods just to rescue her milk cow wasn't the first thing on her list today.Neither was finding a male wood nymph who needed her help. What didn't help was his attitude...

Time haunted her. It didn't do what it was "supposed to" when she was around.It ran forward, backwards, sideways. Sometimes time helped her solve her problems, sometimes it made them worse.For a lovely...

Born between worlds, Silvie fell in love with Earth when she first visited it.She just didn't like the culture, the politice, the noise.So she decided to remake it the way she wanted it. Improve it. Civilize...

In the days when people were owned by the land, two young girls found their power by becoming ghosts, then spirit guides.This is their origin-story... Their Dad had to raise them by himself, as Mother...

The story continues, as two young girls find their power by becoming ghosts, then spirit guides. This is their origin-story...Barely escaping discovery by soldiers from a nearby dukedom, Sal and Jude's...

I'd been left out here, alone. By an oil-burning lamp. In the cold, uncaring desert.It was my only comfort until dawn.Just as the first of dawn started bringing the earliest glimmer of what I could see...

Walking down a dark, wet, gritty highway - barefoot, feverish, and wearing only a nightgown.At least the storm had quit.Now if I could get my chattering teeth to stop, it would help - maybe.A string of...

I was walking in my pasture one sunny afternoon when a pair of hands pulled me into the underworld.Once I arrived, I relaxed - a bit. Because it was an old friend. Carol. A time-bender and now a Lazurai as...

It wasn't often a song stopped me dead in my tracks. All I could do was listen.And I was filled with feelings of peace and hope. So much I didn't want to move, just listen.Now there wasn't a tune, a melody,...

The Continuing Saga of the Ghost HuntersA mystery-detective writer is recruited by two enticing young spirit guides, who are capable of transporting him through space and time to solve the problems of...

Why she was now in human form was a mystery to her - why now, of all things?Born a truly free spirit in the intersteller gases between galaxies, she never knew parents or anything you'd call a childhood.So...

The nightmares galloped roughshod through my dreamscapes. Every night, every nap.During my sleep-interrupted nights, they were waking my husband and even the children sometimes.Not that I could do a lot...

Rose doesn't know why she survived the accident and everyone else was dead.  It was horrible. And she hasn't been able to cry since. Even at the graveyard where she was now.And then she looked over a...

Four witches have something in common - and must find each other before an ancient enemy harvests their magic for her own use.A powerful mass of magic was long ago shattered and dispursed to the four...

"It was a dark and stormy night, and everyone was sitting around the glowing fireplace, safe and warm against the raging weather outside. Someone said, 'John, tell us a story.' So John began..."The story...

Where I had come from, how I had got here, I didn't know.All I knew were my powers, the one's I knew from my childhood. The one's I'd spent my youth learning and perfecting. Witchcraft that could kill...

(also titled: Smart Home Revenge)The more circuits in any machine, the more it's likely to get "haunted."When you connect it to the Internet then you can get more than you asked for.Installing a home...

Harpy and I were born from the union between a goddess of nature and a god of humans.While she was the black sheep of the family, I was the shining star who could do no wrong.Opposite twins, our whole...

One too many. And I couldn't remember last night, either. Both unlikely for a witch.But my powers were still here. Well, sort of.And that's all I remembered.Not my name, not how I got dressed (or un-dressed)...