in the story they tell later, marie stalhbaum is given a toy, and loves him alive. marie's feet are so light that she cannot feel the floor beneath them. the...

The first thing, of course, is to be fearless; and if you cannot manage fearless you must at least be brave. Ghosts will know the difference, but they may fo...

the world is ending, but it has been for some time; shenzi barely thinks about it anymore. sometimes a turn of the light will catch her eye and she will reme...

AC & PK get a roommate, the delta chis get a rooftop tanning bed, and nessa gets angry.

the trojans get kicked off campus, the DnD crew get rejected by an elf barmaid, and you know it's serious when AC gets his heelies out.

“son of a bitch,” keli said, plucking the feather from the tip of her wings. it licked up the sunlight, edges curling inward. she could feel its warmth throu...

i am here at your house, to take away your guns. i am wearing a uniform that could be nebulously FBI-adjacent, maybe an off-shoot of the NSA, maybe i bought ...

What would you do, to get yourself back? What wouldn't you do? On the island of Kallsoy there is a story. The story says that once upon a time, there was a w...

[read the sequel, 'snow white, blood red'] scroll down for part 2 the hut where grimhilde is born has only one window. she has no father. she has the woods. ...

[read the prequel, "white queen, red heart"] (scroll down for part 2) the first baby is born in may, and dies in his sleep. the second does not make it to te...

Elvis gets hundreds of Valentines every year. Elvis was a blond. He died his hair. That was the first hard lesson about love that Leni ever learned. When she...

Use the last sentence of the closest book to you as the first sentence of a story. We finger empty notebooks and then feel dirty about it, their empty pages ...

to be seen and unseen. Leala always celebrates her birthday on the second Friday of September, even though she was born in March on a Tuesday afternoon. Leal...

beauty is not the only weapon women have. "please," mary says, and her father kisses her too-large forehead. runs his hand along her puffy cheeks. there isn'...

monsters aren't meant to be touched. June's parents buy the squid on kind of a whim. Her little brother has always been into marine biology, and the idea of ...

wanktok: people who speak the same language as you do and have some claim on you. The house is built on words. From the rust-colored water that runs from the...

Over and over and over and over and-- first. Megara grew up the oldest of three daughters. Her father was king. He loved her the way that all kings love thei...

it is not a story about spring and winter: it is a story about choice. 1. They say there is a rift in the human soul which was not constructed to belong enti...