Heiress by day, thief by night, Nix Seddiki expects to become a blood mage, like all her ancestors before her. When she discovers her talent lies in necromancy- forbidden to all but royalty- she is equally baffled and delighted. When her secret is discovered, the king offers an ultimatum. Use her skills to steal pric...
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It closed the distance between them with slow, deliberate steps. Mary let out an involuntary whimper. She wished she hadn't fled. Mary squeezed her eyes shut, desperately hoping this was a nightmare. It brushed against her. She felt its breath. This was where she'd meet her end. Just like her people had. She could've...
A university student walking home at midnight runs into Kuntilanak. He tries to sweet-talk himself out of ending up as her meal. "My mother warned me about girls like you." (My entry for the "Nightly Tales" Contest.)
This is the Emperor. I think. Alexandr. Queen Victoria's grandson, the foreign British power. I feel his blood beat, thin, beneath his paper skin, in those blue veins. Something amiss. Something that's too weak in the Russian snow, the turned earth. His hand is cold against my cheek, thumb winding through my coiled h...
"I'm not star-crossed. Not unless you cross me." Ro is a Montague who killed her father to inherit the drug-running business and their considerable stash of bio-tech. Jules is the heir to the Capulet Casino and the single rose of the blood-stained, rotting streets of New Verona who wants to escape their captive world...
The giant beneath the mountain has awakened after three centuries' slumber and devours some of my fathers' best men every morning. He will continue taking lives, one for every giant our ancient ruler killed to steal his land. But I know this ice giant, this jötunn, as Fell Hallvarðr. He came to me as a regular boy in...
"The Blind God walks around me, and I feel my mind prodded again like it was in the cavern, a spider weaving a tangled web. "Would you do anything to be remembered, Ode, even play a villain, the one who rises against the Chosen One?" In answer, I draw my dagger and make a slight incision against my thumb. Blood drips...
➳ A quarry, two cousins and a daredevil act that has far reaching consequences ➳ A never-ending desert, a lost traveller, and a fennec fox with a lisp ➳ A pair of brothers on the run from an enraged dryad These are a but few of the short stories to be found in this collection, one for every October day, varying in len...
It's been ten years since Zee Crenshaw stepped foot in his hometown of Desson. After his abrupt and mysterious exit, no one ever expected to see him back. So when he walks into the office of the town newspaper, workplace of his high school best friends, no one can figure out why he's there. That's when he breaks the n...
After getting caught selling to a minor, Hawke spends fifteen months locked up. In his absence, Eoin gets his shit together--he stays sober, he gets an apartment, a decent paying job. He steers clear of Naome, Hawke's ex, of the people out for Hawke's money--or his life. When Hawke's locked away, it's easy. No one war...
Everything has an origin story. A spooky town settled in a dried up lake bed, off the beaten path, idyllic and just this side of wrong; a town built on urban legends and folklore, on nightmares and unease, on one man's mistakes that trickle through the ages. A small town too caught up in each other's business to notic...
Cooper Price is part of a dying industry. With civilization moving further and further west, honest, hardworking folk get left in the dust. The family farm's going under, and all Cooper can do is tread water until it pulls the whole family down with it. But his father has other plans, ones that involve a gang of outla...