In Peabody, Massachusetts, Luna Aldridge shares a home with her boyfriend, Kyle Tuttle. Sensing that something is off, she feels a stirring within, a yearning for something beyond. Driven by this, she seeks Laura and Victoria advice, the Salem Witches. The witches, with eyes like chips of ice, and the air around them thick with the scent of old herbs and a faint cackling energy, advise her to write in a journal, believing it will sharpen her psychic senses. Following their counsel, she met Geo. Sunlight glinted off his spectacles as she listens to his advice, schooling her in the craft, while his presence gave her a low hum of warning. The air hummed with an unseen energy. With each sunrise, she explores true magic. As she delved into psychic witchcraft, the drama unfolds through her visions; a swirl of dark images. Kyle's odd actions, a nervous energy she can feel in the air, stokes her suspicion. His every move was a shadow, a secret held tight. Guided by the Salem witches, she refines her psychic abilities and learns to sense psychic energy. Receiving the witch relics following a ritual they performed, she feels a magnetic pull from the relics, even as Kyle confesses to the secrets he had been keeping. Next Series: Little Monster; The Luna Aldridge Series (Part 2) *This story is mature. It contains bullying and some sexual content. It is recommended for 18 years and older. * Copyright © 2023 Jamie Sweet

[COMPLETE] ONC SHORTLISTER 2024 Senar Kil is a powerful vampire who harbors a deadly secret: she can no longer drink blood. If her secret gets out, the other vampires will kill her in order to claim her status. Adrian Namgung is an infamous vampire who knows Senar is hiding something and will do anything he can to find out what it is. Problem is, he has a deadly secret of his own. The two vampires are thrust into a game of cat and mouse as they try to figure out who knows what. It should be easy, but, as they spend more and more time with each other, the tension between them becomes all but impossible to ignore. Except keeping secrets from vampires is easier said than done, and soon, both Senar and Adrian have to confront their own demons if they want to make it out alive. ~~~ 🥇HORROR/SUPERNATURAL - LILAC AWARDS 2024 ~~~ First wrote: 02/14/24 - 04/21/24 First published: 02/14/24 - 04/27/24 Total word count: 32.2K

🌲 🦊 🐭 Campbell was ten the first time he turned into a mouse. The only person he could tell was his best friend Shea, but on that same day, she vanished into thin air. And when she returned, she was... different. They both were. They'd seen places - become things - that shouldn't have been possible. They had a hunger for an imaginary elsewhere. They say you're supposed to find yourself in the great outdoors. Cousins Nora and Luís know it's what else you might find that you should be concerned about. But when they are invited on an expedition to explore the mountains of Soledad, Colorado, they find themselves unable to resist the draw of fairy places - no matter how many times they've been warned of the dangers that lurk in the woods beyond their town. And the mysterious two leading the expedition, Campbell and Shea, always seem to be poking around places they shouldn't be, looking for things that don't want to be found. As whispering voices and prying hands lure children from their beds, as stars wink overhead and pillars of stone crash to the earth, as two worlds come unstrung, a group of adventurers must find their way into places impossible - and find their way back again. They say you're supposed to find yourself in the great outdoors. What does it mean if you don't like what you find? &&& Updates every Saturday (with sporadic bonus updates on Wednesdays :) )