At Reichenbach Academy, a centuries-old institution, the burgundy and gold uniforms are pressed and dry-cleaned. Aiming for perfection and status. The academy, nestled in the depths of the Swiss Alps, is built on secrets and harbors an ancient force that has begun to stir. When a werewolf student collapses mid-class, his skin etched with glowing, mysterious sigils, whispers of a new sickness ripple through the school. The administration calls it contained. Some of the students know better. Thorn Rosales, a half-vampire psychic with a reputation for trouble, feels the song in her bones long before anyone else does. Xavier Thorpe, the tortured artist from Nevermore, still haunted by the Hyde and his own mistakes, starts sketching the same symbols that now burn across his classmate's skin. Drawn together by coincidence, or something far more deliberate, they uncover the truth: a haunting secret bleeding through the academy's walls. But Reichenbach has always thrived on silence. And the walls are starting to sing.

Short Story. When Astrid gets yanked into a mega-popular video game and assigned the role of a seductive succubus, she refuses to play along. But the more she rebels against the script, the more the world begins to crack. literally! Armed with nothing but stubbornness, and a talent for making broken things anew, Astrid might be the only one who can rewrite the code before it rewrites her. A SHORT STORY by RYN RILEY