Witch’s Revenge

My girlfriend Cassandra is a witch. I should really say ‘My EX-girlfriend Cassandra is a witch’. I liked Cassandra, but her sex drive was and is far more demanding than mine. She wanted sex several times every night and her demands were affecting my health and stamina. I am a competent amateur distance runner with my normal race distance being […]

Soul Mates

While we toasted marshmallows to make s’mores, it was only natural that we told each other ghost stories–some from when we were kids, some we had heard over the years. The random unexpected events in those spooky yarns were not unlike what had led us to that campfire. I had met Julia some twenty years earlier when she was sleeping […]

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

The smiles didn’t alter when it was finally Lenore’s turn. They were still grins stuck in muscles with neither variations nor nuances. Polite. She stood from her chair to speak at 9am, the time workday began the other days. The mid-September staff meetings at Deep Green Alliance were relaxed, happy, friendly; everybody was supposed to be mellow from the summer […]

The Ghost of Akron, Ohio

I am an old man. My profession of many years brought me into contact with some of the most interesting and troubled people of our of city. For years I had an office in an old Presbyterian church on Archwood Avenue. It had been abandoned when the congregation moved to a new building on the edge of town. The church […]

Reaper

To twenty-one-year-old Layla’s great embarrassment, her grandmother was a self-proclaimed witch. She disappeared every Halloween to celebrate with her friends in a seaside resort and while she was away, she asked Layla to take care of her dog who suffered from a weak nervous system and was deeply upset by the incessant traffic of children ringing on their doors. Her […]

Ascendancy and Death

The path through the forbidden jungle was clearly defined, Ardos laughed to himself, some forbidden jungle indeed. The 3rd prince to the Pharoah, Ardos knew he would never be Pharoah and to avoid being killed in some ritualistic culling of younger male siblings , he had chosen to follow the path into priesthood. The initial tasks and tests had been […]

Monsters – The Succubus

Halloween. For most, the night is filled with fun and mischief. For most college students, the night is spent trying to get lucky at a party. For Connor, the night was just another reminder of his lame and lonely existence. He was a nerd in every sense of the word. He got straight A’s in every class, spent all of […]

Toll Booth

The service drive was barely wider than her car, and in the darkness, Makayla missed it the first time she drove by. When she realized that she must have gone too far, she turned and backtracked until she saw it in her headlights, just a single lane of gravel leading back through the trees. The only indications of its purpose […]

The Sex He Deserves

Tonight was the night; Halloween, when the veil between the planes of existence were thinnest, when Erik would finally get a woman who knew her place, or learn fast. Well, close enough to a woman, but she would be his, and do his bidding. He just got off his computer. The men’s rights forums, and incel, involuntarily celibate, support groups […]

The Succubus of Evintool

The ship rocked and the baron swayed to its hypnotic movement. Years of experiments had led to this foul night. He could feel it in the air, coiled tight from thunderstorm and thick with tallow. Here laid real power. His assistant, however, was not so convinced. “The lilac is in place,” Bernard said limply. “What is the next step?” “The […]