Every summer, I spend the season at my grandmother’s house. She makes me ham sandwiches and coconut cake. There’s a TV, though she hardly...

Spiders get an utterly bad rap, wouldn't you agree? They're very necessary, frightening though they may seem. Like all creatures great...

I don’t belong here. I didn’t do anything wrong. There’s been some sort of mistake, and I’m pretty sure they know it. You see, the first...

I need to justify this "Updates" category of the blog, so here's an update: I've finally added a new story to the "Featured Stories"...

They summoned me to Derrywine Girls Academy in the quiet country lands due north of the Great City. It was a school for children of the...

In March 2020, my wife and I bought our first house. Immediately afterward, the world shut down completely and hundreds of thousands of...

They sold them on Amazon, so it's not like this is some black market hoodoo, you know? It's legitimate, even if most people have never...

I started out with three grandparents. This was already below the standard average. I can't say that I much noticed, though. For one, my...

It all started with Markella. Markella didn't belong. Her parents didn't like to talk about it, but Markella wasn't from Innsdale. And...

In 2010, I had three things going for me: an almost comically abusive relationship, a burgeoning case of housing insecurity, and a...

Parallel thinking is what happens when two different creators, working with no knowledge of the other, create something similar. You see...

So this isn't a story I've told anyone else yet. Frankly, I never planned on telling anyone, but I haven't been able to stop thinking...

Karl leaned over the chain link fence and whistled. “Fuckin’ sheep. Think for yourselves!” On the other side of the street, the young...

Katie, if you're reading this, the first thing you should know is that I do not forgive you. Of course, you haven't asked for forgiveness...

Cambridge suggested we give it a face. I did not agree. To gift it any human qualities beyond the barest essentials was an invitation to...

Find a breathing mask immediately. There are things in the air — small, microscopic things, that float like pollen and enter through your...

When Ben was a baby, his mother and I would bathe him in a shallow pool of water, sitting cross-legged in our ancient freestanding...

"Do you think we'll like it there?" "Of course we will," said David, his eyes half closed against the white-yellow sunlight that...

The man in the Home Depot scratched his head. "What um...what type you looking for?" Mal flinched. "Type?" The man shrugged. "You...

When you agree to enter cryogenic freeze, they give you a slip of paper warning you of three things: One, that you may die (and likely...