****Taken down for publication with Parliament House Press in 2019*** ****Bonus Story Available: The House of Seven Smiles***** ***Wattys 2015 Winner!!!*** Magic runs bone deep... In a world overrun by monsters, humans struggle for survival underground. Magic is feared and reviled, but rooted deep in the bloodlines of...
Snowblood Blood will tell... In the dead of winter, three damaged people learn that 'the dead of winter' is not just an expression. Dr. Yukie Kuwano, her lover Matthew Darrow and his teenage daughter Kari are going on vacation in Japan, and tentatively feeling their way toward becoming a family. However, even as they...
Anna has been able to interact with ghosts for as long as she can remember, and her best friend Peter is one of them. When he and the other ghosts in the city start acting strangely, Anna realizes that something in the spiritual world must have gone horribly awry. With the help of two oddball priests, she embarks on a...
Revenge is a bittersweet thing. It gives you immense satisfaction, but at the same time, it destroys you from the inside. Joan Hale became a victim of a great tragedy, one that drove her mad with rage and grief. With a thirst quenched only by the blood she would soon spill, she calls upon the forces of He...
Devil had been living a relatively peaceful life in her small fishing village Khoel. No friends, no foes except her often tough Mama who's sweet on occasion; usually when she has a customer over. But her quiet life is ruined the day her classmates drowned her. ______ My mama told me when I was young, "so hide your e...
Finding out I was a witch was hardly a shocker. I mean, my Nana owned an occult shop and my mum had dabbled here and there. So it kind of went without saying that I was prepared for that bombshell. What I was not prepared for was to be supernaturally tethered to the most arrogant asshole I had ever met. He had hijack...
Paranormal attacks are on the rise and the slayers are peeved. It's double the workload, their anonymous funding will be cut if they can't do their job and it's not like anyone thanks them anyway. Jackie's more worried about her own position as apprentice, especially when she makes the mistake of leaving a witness. To...
Dark things swarm around the city. Newspaper-boys are lured into houses, strange mansions whisper into musicians' ears, old men tell tales of vampires, drums boom in the Savannah, children worship false gods and priests begin to question the very foundations of the universe. And all this has something to do with a...