Sometimes They Remember
Reading Time: 5 minutesIt’s a lie that mermaids are nurturing mothers. They are not mammals, don’t nurse their young, or even stay around to see if their eggs hatch. They are aquatic beings, muscle, tooth, and desire.
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Renna’s Crossing Chapter 14: Why Can’t it All Fall Apart Nicely
Reading Time: 13 minutesMorning got up and brought them over to the nearest wall and held the light close. Renna and Sera’s eyes widened at what was revealed.
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Duct Cleaning Chaos
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen a routine duct cleaning turns into a supernatural nightmare, one couple learns the hard way that sometimes, it’s not just dust hiding in the vents. Earl, the no-nonsense duct cleaner, wasn’t prepared for what lurked beneath—and neither were they.
Jesse’s Friend
Reading Time: 4 minutesA young boy has an imaginary friend in need of vital information.
The Honesty Boutique
Reading Time: 5 minutesFor those who care to see the world without its glamours, the Truth Wars rage, and a small magic shop will sell you whatever you choose to arm yourself with – for a tender price.
The Hall of Dreams
Reading Time: 3 minutesA post-holocaust society that has established rituals for the purpose of survival. A young person must pass the test of The Hall of Dreams.
Renna’s Crossing Chapter 13: Why Can’t You Let Us Be Fools
Reading Time: 8 minutesIt was time; Leila took the bound catalyst from the nearby table they had arranged for their work, and after whispering some words that sounded like humming poetry, she dropped it into the center of the fire.
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Secret Menu Keep-Away
Reading Time: 5 minutesAn obsessed fan of a futuristic burger joint will stop at nothing to access the most incredible secret menu of all time, even if it means undergoing a slew of transformations, each more bizarre than the last.
Renna’s Crossing Chapter 12: Why Can’t You Make a Spam Filter for Sin
Reading Time: 17 minutes“Maybe you could spare some feelings for Leila, who’s going to be run out of town by the Christians because they think she gave you those tools in order to corrupt their kids. I’d be interested to hear how your ‘good’ was so much ‘greater’ than letting that innocent woman lose her job and her home.”
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No Words
Reading Time: 2 minutesA harried bar owner just wants to find out why the battered woman in the corner won’t talk to him…
Due to Unforeseen Circumstances, The Apocalypse May Be Postponed
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen the Four Riders of the Apocalypse wake up in Las Vegas after one last blowout before the end of the world, they pause for reflection…
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The Horizon Vision Project
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn a world where vision becomes weaponry, The Horizon Vision Project explores the thin line between perception and reality—and the spectral war awaiting just beyond human sight.
Renna’s Crossing Chapter 11: Why Can’t You Understand What I Yell At You
Reading Time: 18 minutes“There are too many people. We might get noticed. Everyone knows each other here. No one knows us.” Renna now understood Sera’s precaution and realized she might have been acting too recklessly.
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The Postcard
Reading Time: 4 minutesMaybe it is not just cats that are curious. A curious man investigates a strange postcard.
The Revenant of the Gaol
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.
One Kiss Will Set You Free
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.
Oceans Away
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.
Renna’s Crossing Chapter 10: Some Overdue Emotions
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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A Scratching at the Door
Reading Time: 6 minutesDuring a visit to confront her estranged boyfriend, Nikki discovers his family’s dark secret.
Hacker Chess
Reading Time: 11 minutesJerry is used to brushing off teen hackers, but this one is in a whole different league.
The Reckoning
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.
The In-between
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.
Renna’s Crossing Chapter 9: The Katzarov’s First Gambit
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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In the Dark
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.
Law Enforcement
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…”
A Solitary Poison
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.
Renna’s Crossing Chapter 8: Words of the Sage
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.
Perfect Mother
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.
Time’s Up
Reading Time: 2 minutesA fabled figure tries to keep humanity off the path to self-destruction.
Dandelion Wishes
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.
A Garden in the Winter
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…
Renna’s Crossing Chapter 7: The Library Cat-alogues
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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The Crystal Egg
Reading Time: 24 minutesA man becomes obsessed with crystal egg and the mystical town captured inside it.
Dueling Map Apps
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.
Renna’s Crossing Chapter 6: Rainy Day Bird Cafe
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.
Where Old Wood Decays
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.
Shrinking
Reading Time: 5 minutesA woman goes home to visit her parents, even though every visit causes their house to shrink.
Toddler’s Tidy Tale: Every Mother’s Dream
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.
Renna’s Crossing Chapter 5: Gift From the Magi
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.”
Shadowed
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.
Playing with Lions
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.
Not-Your-Earth Day
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?
Through a Glass Darkly
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.
Renna’s Crossing Chapter 4: Renna’s Going on a Trip + We Who Bloom in Early Spring
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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A Taste of Evil
Reading Time: 4 minutesAn old vending machine serves up more than just a stale Devil Dog.
The Dark Side of Sweet Corn
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.
Renna’s Crossing Chapter 3: The Visitor, Twelve Years Prior
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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