Seventeen-year-old Sidonie Ardash is leaving her home in Uptown Rivalie, headed for the Bromian Ghetto, a forbidden place she has only read about in the pages of a book written by her mother. She finds a new home, a new family, and a new life in the haunted world of the Broms, a people displaced and cursed by unknowable . . .
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If you walk the streets of Phoenix during the day, you see a city, built by strong hands and strong minds. Her spires of glass and steel pierce the blue skies and scintillate in the blazing Arizona sun. Cars rush through the streets, billowing dust and desert scents. And once and a while you’ll notice a black and silver cab . . .
30 Pieces of Silver is an urban fantasy webserial set in Baltimore, a.k.a. Charm City. Each installment is self-contained, though all take place in the same city and characters and plots sometimes interrelate. A new installment is posted every Sunday morning, and they usually are between 300 and 1500 words long. . . .
Two years ago, David discovered the existence of vampires when his favorite sister fell victim to one. He has been hunting them in his home town of Haventon ever since. Now, as tragedy strikes his family yet again and a botched hunt reveals him to one of his targets, the last thing he needs is responsibility for a novice hunter . . .
Near Dark is a community existing on the edge of a truth that can never be revealed. It is a place where hunters seek their prey, satisfying a hunger and a need that no human could ever imagine. Now an unknown evil stalks them, threatening to tear their world apart. . . .
Crandall Jacobson doesn’t believe in vampires. His life is singing for Inertia Stand, a band he loves even if he hates the name. His best friend and drummer appears to have the same lust for music but Mike also has a secret: He’s a vampire hunter. When a routine staking goes awry, and a vampire sinks her teeth into . . .
From the author of the award winning novel “River” and internet cult hit “Catharsis” comes a serialized novel about the end of the world and the lives of those destined to stop it. Three girls are thrust together by their shared abilities and the roles they are to play in the nearing apocalypse. They are guided only by the mysterious . . .
Max lives in Boston and is ordinary except for one fact: she has heard a voice predicting the end of the world since she was four. Now, at fifteen, she decides to listen to what it has to say—and her adventure begins. What is The Lighthouse? Who is the Dreamseer? And what does any of this have to do with . . .
‘The Great Game’ is a work of interactive fiction, a particpatory story where you’re in charge of what happens next. I write a bit. You tell me what happens next, then I go off and write that, and give you your next choice. I’ll let the narrator sum up the story : “I woke up in a deserted . . .
Every year since he was five Andrew has been forced to spend the summer at his Aunt Jenna’s farm. This year he’s about to discover his family is anything but normal, and that he has an important duty. Is he ready for such a weighty responsibility? Does he even believe any of this is happening to him? . . .
Everything you know is wrong- there are plenty of gods but no afterlife, wizards plot rebellion against eldritch horrors with marketing departments, the Chinese Mafia runs the phone company, every tarot card is a prophesy waiting to happen and most vampires live in trailer parks. Read on to visit a world where every cliche is a parable, every fairy . . .
Welcome to Curio Killed the Cat—an occult shop in Kensington Market, Toronto. Meet the employees (a lazy hoodoo spellcaster, a feminist succubus, and a snobbish Wiccan priest), their perpetually drunk (and confused) boss, and their strange customers, as they try to keep the shop from closing. . . .
A young man named Liam Wheelwright investigates the gruesome deaths of his estranged parents and discovers The Pneuma Chocolatiers, a shop that specializes in the creation of emotional chocolate. He is soon pulled into a world where spells have a smell and it is possible to fall into the hidden spaces of the heart. It is a journey of self-discovery. . . .
With only three chapters to date it’s not easy to form an opinion about this story. The seeds are there for a great adventure and I am interested enough to see how they grow.
The main character is likeable and there’s a sense of fun which hints that this could turn [more . . .]
I started off with the three part, short story called ‘Memento Vivere’ and chuckled my way through to the end. There is an irreverent humour here that is very engaging and comes entirely from the main character, Father Dylan Shute himself. The author isn’t kidding that he’s mildly heretical and very unorthodox. Every chapter had memorable, quotable parts but I’ll [more . . .]