Fairy Tale inspired paranormal short stories by Dorlana Vann and guest writers. . . .
Anton Macquarie is having a bad day. He woke up with a pounding head. He was late for work. He was attacked by a homeless woman with an apple core. His boss’ house was burnt down, his boss is now dead, and his replacement is going to turn the newspaper he works for into a sensationalist tabloid. He can’t . . .
Detroit has a hero, someone to stand against the forces of darkness, and resist the rising tide of horror and bloodshed. This isn’t his story. Alice Frye is an Artificer living in Highland Park, and she’s perfectly happy running her curio shop full of gewgaws and magical artifacts while her zombified late husband handles the cleaning and grocery shopping. . . .
Phantasia Celeste has spent her life living in an ethereal world of flying islands and pretty people with soul-wings – but, unlike Phantasia, other faeries don’t have white hair or diamond eyes and so, driven to understand her place in the world, she travels to the human world. The 31st Century, however, is not a friendly place. A millennia . . .
A fantasy world explored through the eyes of both its normal, and less than normal inhabitants. Kakomareta follows the stories of great people before they were great, and mediocre people who were brilliant for a brief moment. The current arcs follow Yue, a gypsy who’s lived most of her life in a wasteland, and Ha, a young student and noble . . .
Well, if you get tired of stories that take a long time to get going, you won’t have that problem here. It starts as a quiet day and routine sale for a Detroit witch in a curio shop, but next thing you know an unwelcome visitor is demanding help with some Things that used to be dogs, and after that [more . . .]
Cross-posted from my blog:
What do Lovecraftian Demons, power-hungry magicians, heavily-armed religious fanatics, and vampire mobsters all have in common? They’re all trying to ruin Alice’s Day.
That’s the mini-blurb from the masthead of "Black Alice – An Urban Fantasy Serial Novel [more . . .]