Sometimes she thought it must be loneliness that made her see things. She could see the dark lord’s face peering down from…
The first time she noticed, it was purely accidental. A quick glance while reaching for a towel on the nearby rack. The…
The winds bouncing off the gulf swaddle Fleur’s bare head as she stands at its fringes, and almost with the same delicacy…
The fireflies hovered in front of me, their green bodies emitting a radio buzz with their wings. Crickets hummed and perched themselves…
When Sunduq was four she got stuck in the hope chest in her grandmother’s bedroom. Her family looked for her for hours,…
It was called “Tika Zika”. They gave us instructions to lock ourselves away from each other. No neighbors, friends, nothing–no matter what.…
Melam partially unzipped the full body control unit and took a deep breath. It was crafted from lightweight fabric, yet designed to…
I’m not good at being a witch. To say that I’m incompetent wouldn’t even cover it. My witchcraft is an amateur cocktail…
SOUP: It is barely dawn, and the village of Layou is swallowed up in sleep and sea breeze. Tessa lays on her…
“Mannn, the things I could say about my boy, Romeo.” Chuckles rippled through the great hall; some tinged with nerves, others with…
Tisha Kroemer had never felt real fear until that moment. The moment she watched her husband fall off the roof. It was…
On the first night the stars fell, the whole suburb rushed out of their beds and looked out their windows to see…
Luz had faked a pregnancy in order to get the attention of her ex-boyfriend Johnny Rivera and kept it going for six…
I stood at that door knowing the second I knocked on it I’d be a murderer. I had just limped two miles…
When Lenaya is twenty-seven she begins to see pieces of her mama everywhere. In the red lip color worn by a stranger…