By Felicity Devoria (TW: Violence and gore, death, surgery, supernatural creature) The entire ordeal was not how Thaddeus had imagined his first time seeing a woman he fancied undressed. Not that he had imagined it. That would be unseemly. But if he’d had to hazard a guess, he might’ve thought Read more
By Daniel Melin (TW: Death/Grief and Depression) I woke up to the sound of gunslingers and horses. For a moment, I thought I had somehow been transported to another time and place entirely—that my life had inexplicably been a dream all along. But as it turned out, it was just Read more
By Abby Meacham “I fold.” The words echoed in the gentlemen’s hall. Although it was nearly midnight, the chandeliers were still glowing, the windows shut against the rainstorm outside. It was empty save for the four men seated at a table near the back, all clad in costly suits. One Read more
By Shay Manning The keeper can’t remember the last time the old house had a guest. Perhaps the woman who’d become lost in the rose garden? Or was she before the man who’d been stung to death by the bees? He shivers; that death had been particularly gruesome. But the Read more
