❝Oh, Cordelia, sing to me. Then proceed to kill me at sea.❞ ★★★ inspired by The Little Mermaid. Highest Rank Short Story: #55

-Editor's Choice! Dec 2019 - 17-year-old Lucille Monteith wants nothing else to find her brother, who, despite what everyone says, she refuses to believe is dead. She'll do anything to locate him, to bring him back home safe, though it begins to dawn on her that she's hopeless in her investigation. After a tragic accident, brothers Cian and Vincent Horne were torn from their normal lives. Vinny stuck as an earthbound spirit and Cian becoming an angel of death, the two roam the earth together, unafraid of death and its meaning. When Vinny discovers that Lucie can see him, however, it changes everyone in the trio's lives, and Lucie finds she may not be so hopeless after all. Embark on this journey as an angel, a ghost, and a teenage girl search for a loved one, battle their demons, and fight to keep pulses beating.

Kira was no ordinary girl. She grew up in a research facility known as Phoenix Corp., used for experiments, and most of all, she had psychic powers. One day, she heard that they were going to open up her head and study her brain. Of course, she couldn't let that happen, so she escaped. As she walked through the woods near the building she used to reside in, she found a mansion. This mansion was full of killers that didn't look like normal beings.