Reading Time: 4 minutesJournalist Ellen Carter investigates ghostly rumours at the old Frontenac County Gaol and uncovers the buried story of Samuel Larkin, a man wrongfully executed. As she digs deeper, revealing the truth may free his spirit—or awaken something far more sinister.
Reading Time: 4 minutesAngie and Dan kiss in a graveyard, inadvertantly unlocking an ancient curse. They free trapped souls, who then inhabit the lovers’ bodies and condemn them to the grave, in limbo between life and death. Now only ‘one kiss’ will set them free.
Reading Time: 16 minutesA young woman invents a telescope that allows her to see Mars as it appeared in the distant past, revealing an ancient secret with staggering implications for present day Earth.
Reading Time: 18 minutes“That sounds like something your teacher would say. We know what we’re doing, thanks to that book you’re holding there, and thanks to an excellent teacher of our own. You’re still new to this side of the world, Renna. And right now you’re just listening to what one person tells you.”
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Reading Time: 6 minutesDuring a visit to confront her estranged boyfriend, Nikki discovers his family’s dark secret.
Reading Time: 11 minutesJerry is used to brushing off teen hackers, but this one is in a whole different league.
Reading Time: 4 minutesSent by her husband to kill the draelings that threaten their village, a woman drives them from their burrow. She does not expect the draelings to speak to her. When they reveal an uncomfortable truth, she is forced to reconsider her actions.
Reading Time: 7 minutesAfter dying in a brutal past life, a soul awakens with vivid memories of betrayal, agony, and unfinished business. Bound, tortured, and abandoned, they curse the fate that left them forgotten. Now, caught between worlds, they must confront their past, seeking closure and revenge, to break free from the abyss.
Reading Time: 27 minutesThere would be no winner, however this battle ended. Renna squeezed her eyes shut, not from fear, but from desperation in trying to find a way to end this chaos.
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Reading Time: 6 minutesZoey is about to wake up to face a darkness she can’t escape in this tale of desperation and hope when she realizes she’s been buried alive.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“He told me to go f**k myself, which is a function I am not programmed to perform. However, thanks to a certain maverick engineer…”
Reading Time: 3 minutesA lonely lighthouse keeper dreams of falling, a familiar face, and a sinister flower as he is forced to confront his past.
Reading Time: 18 minutesThere was so much there—it was in prose, poetry, puzzle and picture. The sage’s wisdom couldn’t be confined to a single medium. All of it was laid out before her, insisting that it be known. Demanding to be understood.
Reading Time: 14 minutesAfter suffering a miscarriage at a professional conference, a young mortician becomes a surrogate mother to a deathless and extremely hungry entity.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA fabled figure tries to keep humanity off the path to self-destruction.
Reading Time: 3 minutesPeople and flowers need nourishment and light to grown. Sometimes, sometimes people can be just as resilient as the tenacious, beautiful weeds.
Reading Time: 5 minutesOn a farm one winter night in the late 1930s, the children are left at home alone by their parents when a snowstorm descends…
Reading Time: 15 minutesThe stares the cats gave them felt uncomfortably sentient; they were not only watching, they were knowing; contemplating; judging.
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Reading Time: 24 minutesA man becomes obsessed with crystal egg and the mystical town captured inside it.
Reading Time: 4 minutesA road trip through Southern Quebec becomes chaotic when multiple navigation systems start bickering. With his wife asleep, the driver is caught between OnStar’s Southern drawl, Google’s British precision, and an unexpected voice from FordPass, turning a simple drive into a comedic tech showdown.
Reading Time: 14 minutesRenna’s quest for knowledge takes her to a hidden library, and the path to its doors reveals a town’s strange undercurrents.
Reading Time: 5 minutesA timeworn witch, the last of her coven, fights her young replacement to cling to the post she’s held for centuries as the steward of the Mother Tree.
Reading Time: 5 minutesA woman goes home to visit her parents, even though every visit causes their house to shrink.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA weary mother’s wish comes true when her toddler’s toys mysteriously start tidying themselves. As she embraces the magic, she soon learns that all enchantments—like the holiday season—must come to an end.
Reading Time: 25 minutes“Magic may be held by any hand and bred by any soul. That was one of your grandmother’s most insistent lessons. It is all just a matter of discipline, and passion.”
Reading Time: 9 minutesA cable network host of the paranormal, Dr. Knute Quinn, ignores his old professor’s warnings about investigating shadow creatures, monstrosities much more aggressive and dangerous compared to the more passive shadow figures, dedicating his premiere second season telecast to the subject . . . with horrific consequences.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAboard a spaceship of giants is a school in which a teacher uses the creatures of Earth to show his pupils that the value of life is not determined by its size.
Reading Time: 4 minutesHumans consume micro-plastics and nano-plastics in huge quantities starting in the womb. These plastics never leave the body. Yet the public rejoices in the advent of micro-organisms that consume plastic wherever it might be. Should we really thank nature for taking out the trash this way?
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn the quiet depths of an Ottawa laboratory, Malcolm Reiner dared to rewrite the very fabric of biology, pursuing the dream of mirror-image life forms—an uncharted path on the edge of human understanding.
Reading Time: 17 minutesKyle ducked his head as a spinning flapjack narrowly missed him. He brandished a batter-covered spatula at Derek. “Cease fire at once! You know that’s against the Breakfast Geneva Code!”
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Reading Time: 4 minutesAn old vending machine serves up more than just a stale Devil Dog.
Reading Time: 8 minutesThe corn field across the road had always been a part of the landscape, a quiet presence that whispered in the wind and marked the seasons with its growth. This year, though, something was different.
Reading Time: 11 minutesSomething from the direction of the forest made them turn about sharply, muscles tensed, a reflex with no apparent trigger. Mab put her thick, gnarled hand upon Job’s shoulder. “A bad visitor. Reeking of sulfur and forgotten hate.”
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Reading Time: 4 minutesA blind man makes a deal with the devil that doesn’t work out as he had hoped.
Reading Time: 14 minutesThe salesman of a device that predicts the immediate future finds himself in the pitch meeting of his life when he’s taken hostage by a trio of armed criminals.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA mermaid’s lament over her murdered lover, and her call to wage war against those who killed him.
Reading Time: 7 minutesA man learns of his destiny when he discovers the body of the mother he never knew. A letter left at he scene is hard to believe.
Reading Time: 12 minutesSurely Job had a Reason for coming to see her, with lots of Relevant Information and perhaps even some Responsibilities. She didn’t know, so she was nervous. She wanted them to speak first and get on with it.
Reading Time: 6 minutesEarth is facing a coming ice age. Humanity has marshaled its technology and resources in an attempt to delay the great cold; a diversion necessary to maintain hope for the people. But some few know the truth. There is little hope left on Earth. But there may still be hope in the stars.
Reading Time: 12 minutesA woman seeks healing at an isolated ranch in the southwest. It goes as expected until it doesn’t.
Reading Time: 4 minutesNaima has everything she needs, and everything she wants, and more besides. Providence does just what it says: whatever you need, it provides. Coming here was the right thing to do, the best thing. Coming here was the only thing that made sense. Coming here was Naima’s idea, after all.
Reading Time: 19 minutesA detective investigating a string of gristly murders comes face to face with an unimaginable horror.
Reading Time: 13 minutesJob, a youthful but accomplished witch, has come to the foster home of Inglenook to meet with 16-year old Renna Porter. Their purpose is a mystery even to the three dads of the foster home, but Job’s quiet tension indicates sudden change incoming.
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Reading Time: 8 minutesIn the future, the government conducts regular audits of people’s thoughts in order to root out criminals and to prevent corporate fraud. A young man discovers a hack on the black market that allows him to have his objectionable thoughts overwritten with benevolent thoughts. Naturally, however, there is a catch.
Reading Time: 4 minutesDr Peters’ new patient suffers from a particularly unpleasant recurring nightmare but, after a session with the doctor, it seems that the ‘fetus-man’ has gone away for good.
Reading Time: 4 minutesA celebrated sci fi author gets annoyed by fans constantly tracking him down at his favorite writing haunts and pitching him with ideas.
Reading Time: 4 minutesJoin Anya Lasagna on a tour of the Historic Ballyhoo Place World Heritage Site! Marvel together at the ingenuity, whimsy and stoicism with which old-style humans once faced the endless vicissitudes of their own bleak reality.
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