"The Rectory stands as neutral ground for the worlds supernatural creatures."
The rectory stood empty for decades, a for sale sign stuck into the soft ground outside the wrought iron gates. The attached church hadn't been used for worship since the end of the war. When the mill went out of...
Gary White was an introverted man. He had social problems and didn’t really connect with women. He went out alone at a club and struck out once again. Nobody talked with him or even looked in his direction.It wasn’t that...
"This short story takes on the question of why all Leprechauns are male... sort of."
It all started very late last summer, or perhaps I should say very early this fall. I was trying to get a very difficult article written on the Celtic myths in which humans become immortal, and my girlfriend, Annie, was...
"Vanessa discovers a strange mirror in an old house."
My name is Vanessa. I am a thirty-year-old woman who recently lost her beloved husband to a war overseas. I recently moved to Washington state to this old house in the country, which was previously owned by an elderly woman...
"Can someone avoid prophecy given by a girl kissed by the Fey?"
I think the wee folk are playing with me, but this is the story the Pixies gave me for this year’s Halloween specials. It rolls some Celtic traditions in with some other traditions from the old times to present a...
Bad SushiI was stopped at a red light on my way home from a dinner party. When the traffic lights turned green, I took my foot off the brake pedal and pressed down on the accelerator. My vehicle moved forward....
"Caitlin gains her strength and confronts her kidnapper."
Two days later she was strong enough to sit up on her own. Four days, and she could walk to the picture window, allowing her to gaze out on the massive landscape. There was nothing like the mountains and valleys...
"Caitlin is kidnapped by a traveling stranger."
She sat beneath the oak tree, staring out at the town. It was quaint, filled with all the small-town folk that were more superstitious than they had a right to be.No one had seen a ghost, but they believed. Maybe...
Kevin Mulligan was finally moved into his new house. He bought his new home for a song. There was a lot of talk that his new home was haunted. The sellers had been trying to sell the home for several...
"John finds life again among the dead"
Well, it has been a year since my divorce. I was married for twenty-three years and my divorce wasn't that devastating because we had just been living as roommates the last ten years or so. The sex stopped when our...
