Nia's been trapped in a curse for half of her life, when she finally wakes up she finds a darkness has woken with her. "Curses are living things too." "I'll leave you to kiss your shadows." "I can only stare back, vessel tainted, mind blooming." *Featured Nov. 2017* Cover By: @geekalert13

Featured Story//November 2017 *** Evil can be found in the most unexpected places. One being our neighbors. Our friends. Our family. Another being ourselves. Even worse: nine times out of ten, when we finally find it, A secret cult is running it's operations, tests, and sacrifices in a run down gas station in a rural town that most people haven't even heard of. Finn Johnson has, though. And he's also heard the rumors. Rumors that the cops and locals have confirmed aren't true. But that doesn't stop him and his group of rebellious friends from checking out the place for themselves. Soon they're wrapped up in a living nightmare, one that he'll have to fight with all he's got to make it out of alive. A supernatural battle. But what side is he even on? #36 in horror, 1 / 5/ 17

EPILOGUE WILL BE FREE STARTING JUNE 29TH, 2023! Diana wakes up in pain, tied to a bed and unable to escape. She's been trapped by a group of surgeons with a twisted passion and she's their next victim. ***** Diana Slater, a typical University student, wakes up in pain, tied to a bed and unable to see. After a mysterious figure, known only as Dr. Sweeney, nurses her back to health she finds out the truth. The Doctor has kidnapped her and given her a cat's eyes as part of a larger ploy to turn humans into collectibles. Now she's being trained by Ben, another patient, with the skin of a snake, on how to behave. Diana and Ben are forced to work together to try to escape the murderous doctors - until she discovers Ben might not be the victim he makes himself out to be. The only person Diana can trust is herself, and if she fails, her eyes won't give her another nine lives. [[Winner of the 2018 Fiction Awards for Best Horror Story]] [[word count: 80,000-90,000 words]] Cover designed by Holly Thurston