The Three Sisters

"He promised to pull out, but he didn’t, and so they fell."

The orange sun was dipping behind the distant hills, its remaining light shimmering across the still pond. Yesh and Shalay knelt in the soft grass at the edge of the woods, facing the water. Yesh pushed her round, muscular haunches...

Brad, The Underwhelmingly Inept Ghost

"Her place is haunted... by a self-conscious spirit."

“Fuck, I should have known better,” Ella muttered under her breath, reaching for the bag of breakfast cereals, “than to—Argh!—let a ghost have his way with me.” She slammed the door of the cupboard with determined frustration. “And a desperate...

One Tool to Bind Them…

"Having the greatest sex of your life sounds amazing, but it depends on the price…"

Melissa sighed as she sipped her cocktail. “I so envy my kids. It was absolutely the best sex of my life – and it will never happen again.”Terry lifted her eyebrows. “You’re sending both of the twins? Is Henry OK...

Feeding The Myth

"Xander finds that some stories passed through the ages are not what they seem."

The flicker of the campfire illuminates our circle of rapt faces, the wood popping and crackling in the dark as Dexter brings his tale to a climax."Terror!" he yells with the gravitas of a Shakespearean understudy. "That's how it reigns."...

Teenage Banshee

"letting yourself go and screaming your head off can have disastrous effects sometimes"

Sinead slammed the front door and ran upstairs to her bedroom. Her mother raised her eyes as the bedroom door slammed too.In her room, Sinead sat on the bed, rocking herself slowly backwards and forwards. Her long dark hair hung...

The Amulet

"The power of the amulet transforms the supplicant"

People who experience a mysterious event sometimes feel the need for a rational explanation.  They seek to explain the unexplainable, and put it safely within a box of reality.  Perhaps, they’ll suggest, what you experienced was just a delusion, nothing...