The Devil, bored of his regular duties, decides to have a little fun one night and burns down a newlywed's home. To his surprise, the husband survives somehow. At first disappointed, the Devil soon grows a bizarre fondness of the man who is willing to do anything to get his wife back. Maybe even kill in the Devil's name. Short story with a twist of horror and the paranormal.

My name is Ruby. It wasn't always that though. It was once Annabelle Gray. That was before my husband and son were brutally murdered by the mob. The year was 1922. They found him and my son lying in a pool of red on the kitchen floor. That was the day everything changed. I vowed that day to find out who killed them. Then I would kill him and whoever he was working for.

**Wattpad Featured Story** Zahra Kasmut has lived before our time. In an ancient life, she fought against Set, an Egyptian deity, who had amassed a commanding army to overthrow her country. He butchered anyone who opposed him--man or woman, child or elder--and set countless towns and villages ablaze. With her city starving from a seemingly endless siege, Zahra and her companions had only two choices: kill an Egyptian god or die trying. Somehow, Zahra survived Set's onslaught on her city, but not without an unwilling sacrifice that forced her away from her brother, uncle, and nation she had defended. Thousands of years later, she now walks among us. Unaware of her true past, she goes about her mundane days craving more to life; all while trying to understand who the distant yet familiar voices in her head belong to. One man, however, is aware of who she truly is: Akar Usi, a beloved ally of Set. Since the siege, he's been trapped under the ruins of his collapsed city, waiting to emerge and spark the civil war of Ancient Egypt once more. First, though, he'll start with Zahra--he'll start by making her suffer. --- Cover by the brilliant @MayFreighter !