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• Holiday Spirits Absinthe Read the story →
• Elements Aether Rachel sifted through her closet and sighed dramatically. True, she was 16, so the dramatic sigh itself... Read the story →
• Elements Air Barbara woke up singing. That’s not an exaggeration; she literally woke up mid-song. This was not an... Read the story →
• Solar Witches Air Witch Read the story →
• Alchemist Alchemist She had always been a bit of a loner. She’d always been different from everyone else in... Read the story →
• Holiday Spirits Amaretto Read the story →
• Antiquarian Antiquarian Julia looked over the edge of her whiskey glass and sighed. Bored. Incredibly, damningly bored. She had... Read the story →
• Creature Feature Antique Doll For Sale, Totally Not Haunted Read the story →
• Alchemist Aqua Vitae Laura looked up from behind the counter, where she had been re-reading one of Paracelsus’ works on... Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Arcadia The land of milk and honey. The pastoral ideal. Utopia. These were the things he was searching... Read the story →
• Alchemist Arcaneum Before she became a full-fledged alchemist, little Laura had to learn the tricks and tools of alchemy.... Read the story →
• Ancient Teas Atlantis Imagine a civilization completely run by women; perhaps it’s an island in the middle of the Atlantic... Read the story →
• Fallpocalypse Autumn Ashes The whole camp was in mourning. The sudden, tragic death of Kevin permeated the air of the... Read the story →
• Antiquarian Avant Garde Julia woke with her head pounding, the smell of garbage stinging her nostrils The sun was so... Read the story →
• Halloween Monsters Azrael He sighs, looking up at the house. It’s been a long night of work, and he’s pretty... Read the story →
• Ancient Teas Babylonia In the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the queen was waiting impatiently. She strode the floor, pacing back... Read the story →
• Tesseract Bailiwick “Sir, I have some bad news. The, uh … the girls have gotten away again,” the lackey... Read the story →
• Halloween Monsters Banshee You walk through the Irish countryside, strolling aimlessly. My, what a fresh, brisk October afternoon it is!... Read the story →
• Broken Hearts Beating Heart (Chapter 4) Crystal checked her watch. Late, again, she thought to herself, rolling her eyes so hard her mom... Read the story →
• Broken Hearts Black Heart (Chapter 2) Jade looked through the window to the dreary, rainy outside world. Her long, artificially blonde hair with... Read the story →
• Steel Roses Black Rose (Chapter Five) She had always been a fan of good food, even when she had to cook it all... Read the story →
• Broken Hearts Bleeding Heart (Chapter 3) Kaylee stared at her reflection in the mirror across the bar, and took a sip of her... Read the story →
• Blood Drunk Blood Drop The moon had risen. The day was just beginning for Sylvia, Giorgio, Louisa, and Claudius, who were... Read the story →
• Blood Drunk Blood Drunk Sylvia, Giorgio, and Louisa were sitting in front of the fireplace, playing a rousing game of Life.... Read the story →
• Blood Drunk Blood Lust “I can’t believe we’re having a party!” Claudius squealed. “I feel like we haven’t seen any other... Read the story →
• Fallpocalypse Blood Orange The rest of the camp was already up and awake when she started waking up. She rolled... Read the story →
• Steel Roses Blood Rose (Chapter Four) Once upon a time, there lived two queens who were married to each other. They had been... Read the story →
• Shadow Witches Bog Witch Read the story →
• Antiquarian Bohemian Suddenly, a stroke of brilliance flashed into Julia’s head. Of course! If Carmen had been able to... Read the story →
• Solar Witches Book Witch Read the story →
• Steel Roses Briar Rose (Chapter One) Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young woman named Aurora who lived with her overly-protective... Read the story →
• Broken Hearts Broken Heart (Chapter 1) This little tavern had always been Emma’s favorite in her little hometown. Not that there were any... Read the story →
• Ancient Teas Byzantine It was a busy day in Constantinople. The Emperor was set to make a speech on the... Read the story →
• Fallpocalypse Candied Apple “I’m just so glad you’re no longer a zombie!” she said, kissing Mallory passionately in front of... Read the story →
• Halloween Candle Cat and Cauldron Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Cat Lady Era Read the story →
• Halloween Monsters Cerberus: Part One Read the story →
• Ancient Teas Chamomelia It was a beautiful June day: the sun was shining, a light breeze ruffled the leaves of... Read the story →
• Shadow Witches Chaos Witch Read the story →
• Halloween Cheeky Gremlin Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Cherry Almond Cookie For the first time in years, Brenda was excited about Christmas. Not for the usual reasons, however,... Read the story →
• Holiday Spirits Chocolate Stout Read the story →
• Broken Hearts Cold Heart (Chapter Six) It had been an incredibly cold January so far, even for a climate that regularly had cold,... Read the story →
• Compass Rose Compass Rose She’d been born and raised as Marie Rose Jackson, living most of her life in dirt and... Read the story →
• Halloween Coven The front porch and pathway were lined with pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns of all sizes and colors. The... Read the story →
• Shadow Witches Crafty Witch Read the story →
• Alchemist Crucible In the weeks after Carly’s initial visit to Laura’s shop, Carly began coming in more and more... Read the story →
• Sweet Shoppe Crystal Mint Ms. Candy Carlyle smiled down at little Johnny, handing him his two bags of penny candy. “Now,... Read the story →
• Halloween Dead Ringer John was thrilled to be getting married to Elizabeth. True, they had only known each other for... Read the story →
• Halloween Monsters Death Mask Lloyd had been a dollmaker for ages. He was great at crafting the most lifelike dolls, and... Read the story →
• Tesseract Demesne Mandy was stunned. Mr. Jones kept laughing maniacally, long after it was appropriate to stop. His face... Read the story →
• Steel Roses Desert Rose (Chapter 10) Read the story →
• Alchemist Distillate Distillation is the sixth major operation in the alchemy of transformation. In a chemical sense, it is... Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Don't Be a Part of the Problem. Be the Whole Problem. Read the story →
• Shadow Witches Doom Witch Read the story →
• Compass Rose Due South It had been a few weeks since Rose and Misty had successfully thwarted Deadbeat’s attempt to rob... Read the story →
• Elements Earth Dawn had been up since her namesake time, working hard in one of her gardens. Though she... Read the story →
• Holiday Spirits Eggnog Read the story →
• Halloween Monsters Elder God Your plane touches down on a remote island in the South Pacific. Dammit, you’ve needed this vacation.... Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Elder Nerd Read the story →
• Shadow Witches Ember Witch Read the story →
• Halloween Eternal Darnation Philip was a mild troublemaker his whole life. He’d always been well-liked, but any minor inconvenience to... Read the story →
• Compass Rose Far East Compass Rose and Misty Morning were currently enjoying a lazy morning in bed aboard Rose’s ship, the... Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Fathom's Wrath Read the story →
• Villainess Final Boss Read the story →
• Elements Fire Sharon was at a crossroads in her life. At 30 years old, she was tired of corporate... Read the story →
• Solar Witches Fire Witch Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Firelight Your body wasn’t meant for the cold. When you were little, you’d lived in a tropical climate... Read the story →
• Steel Roses Flame Rose (Chapter Three) Madeline grew up with loving, doting parents and a witchy grandmother. Basically, she was living the dream.... Read the story →
• Solar Witches Forest Witch Read the story →
• Shadow Witches Fractal Witch Read the story →
• Holiday Spirits Frangelico Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Freak in the Spreadsheets Read the story →
• Blood Drunk Fresh Blood It had been several months since Amanda had moved in with Claudius, and therefore with Sylvia, Giorgio,... Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Fresh Out of Fucks Read the story →
• Solar Witches Garden Witch Read the story →
• Halloween Glam Reaper Everything about Shannon’s life was a mess: her apartment, her job, her love life. Her boyfriend of... Read the story →
• Steel Roses Glass Rose (Chapter Two) “No John, I know exactly what I want. The cabbage. From next door. I see it every... Read the story →
• Shadow Witches Glitch Witch Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Glitter Panic Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Go Big or Go Home Jane sighed with satisfaction, surveying the site. It was hard work being the only woman general contractor... Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Goblin Goblin Goblin Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Goblin Mode Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Goblin Queen Erabella sighed as her husband paced his bedchamber, searching everywhere and mumbling, “I just can’t find it!”... Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Golden Hour Now, she was a proper star. Her life was dissected in columns big and small multiple times... Read the story →
• Halloween Harbinger Far in the distance, the manor was burning. Smoke billowed out of the windows beginning in the... Read the story →
• Halloween Heart's Blood “Totally Normal Human Party!” said the sign hanging over the front door of the house. Claudius had... Read the story →
• Broken Hearts Heavy Heart (Chapter 5) The past two years had been hard on the Broken Heart. In a time of global sickness... Read the story →
• Halloween Heck Puppy Charlotte had been begging her mom, Marilyn, for months for a puppy. “It’s nearly my tenth birthday;... Read the story →
• Halloween Monsters Hobgoblin “Now Timmy, you have to start cleaning up your room! If you don’t, the Hobgoblin will come... Read the story →
• Halloween Monsters Homunculus Theresa sighed, swiping left for approximately the fiftieth time in a row. “I will never, ever find... Read the story →
• Holiday Spirits Hot Buttered Rum Read the story →
• Holiday Spirits Hot Cocoa Read the story →
• Holiday Spirits Hot Toddy Read the story →
• Miscellaneous I Regret Nothing Read the story →
• Miscellaneous I Said Good Day Read the story →
• Miscellaneous I'm a Delicate Fucking Flower It’s finally here: it’s ladies’ night. Well, really, it’s “OMG we’re finally all going to get together... Read the story →
• Miscellaneous I'm Too Old For This Shit Your alarm didn’t go off, again. Or maybe you slept through it. The point is, you’re now... Read the story →
• Shadow Witches Ice Witch Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Impending Bloom Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Impending Doom Read the story →
• Tesseract Infinitesimal Mandy sighed. For one infinitesimal second, everything was right in the world. She smiled, her heart full... Read the story →
• Holiday Spirits Irish Cream Read the story →
• Miscellaneous It's All Science If You Write Down What Happened “We have to hurry up! It’s almost dinner time, and she’ll ground me if I’m late again!”... Read the story →
• Solar Witches Kitchen Witch Read the story →
• Halloween Monsters Kraken Deep in the ocean, many leagues below the surface, your submarine silently glides under full power. The... Read the story →
• Ancient Teas Labyrinthine Melissa was exhausted. She wanted nothing more than a day to her damn self to do whatever... Read the story →
• Sweet Shoppe Lemon Fizz It was a bright, hot morning on the coast. The waves were crashing in, sending sprays of... Read the story →
• Antiquarian Libertine Julia stands in the alley behind the back of the club, fuming. The letter from Carmen, once... Read the story →
• Solar Witches Lunar Witch Read the story →
• Halloween Mortsafe Brodie Brown sighed. He was trying to learn anatomy and become a doctor, but the lack of... Read the story →
• Holiday Spirits Mulled Wine Read the story →
• Miscellaneous My Chaotic Little Self Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Neurospicy Amanda looked out the window of the car again. She was extremely antsy. She’d scrolled through all... Read the story →
• Creature Feature Never Sleep Again Read the story →
• Tesseract Neverwas “Neverwas.” What did that mean, exactly? Mandy’s brain had gone completely blank, her body felt numb. The... Read the story →
• Halloween Night Witch It was Halloween, Nina’s favorite holiday. She stepped out of the shower carefully, and wrapped her hair... Read the story →
• Villainess No Capes Read the story →
• Compass Rose Out West Rose sighed, and shielded her eyes to the bright morning sun by making a visor out of... Read the story →
• Steel Roses Paper Rose (Chapter Nine) Once upon a time, there was a woman named Cindy, who was currently in the midst of... Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Pfeffernusse Read the story →
• Tesseract Portmanteau Mandy awoke in a small, cramped room on a small, hard cot. She had a terrible headache,... Read the story →
• Fallpocalypse Pumpkin Spice Pandemic It all started with the goddamn pumpkin spice. She sighed, remembering when it was simply a seasonal... Read the story →
• Alchemist Quicksilver One boring Wednesday, Laura the alchemist was hanging around in her small shop. She’d had two customers... Read the story →
• Sweet Shoppe Rainbow Sherbet At 7AM on the dot, Candy heard the knock on her shop door. Patty waved to her... Read the story →
• Halloween Rictus Working a minimum wage job after graduating with a master’s degree is demoralizing on its own. But... Read the story →
• Sweet Shoppe Rootbeer Pastille Candy took Patty’s advice, and after a day full of candy making, took a day off for... Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Scotcheroos Read the story →
• Antiquarian Scoundrel “I’m a five-star man!” Jackson yelled, whooping and hollering with glee. He found a bottle of rum... Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Sea Hag Read the story →
• Shadow Witches Shadow Witch Read the story →
• Ancient Teas Shangri-La In the lush gardens of Shangri-la, Adam and Eve are living in paradise. Everything is green and... Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Showstopper Kyra could hardly believe it: the big moment had finally arrived. She’d been practicing for months, determined... Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Sleep Paralysis Read the story →
• Fallpocalypse Smoke And Decay Walking back to the campground, she spots Mallory. Mallory waves her over and beckons her to sit.... Read the story →
• Solar Witches Solar Witch Read the story →
• Halloween Something Wicked This Way Comes Read the story →
• Creature Feature Sound of Static Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Spark “I think I’m giving up on dating,” Mary said with an overdramatic sigh, throwing another dress on... Read the story →
• Sweet Shoppe Sparkling Cherry Candy’s Sweet Shoppe had always been a hit with children, of course, but as word of Candy’s... Read the story →
• It's Too Darn Hot Sparkling Cucumber Mint Paula was in a rut, and she knew it. Since her divorce, it just kind of seemed... Read the story →
• It's Too Darn Hot Sparkling Green Mandarin Paula awoke the morning after her first swing class extremely sore, but extremely excited. She’d slept better... Read the story →
• It's Too Darn Hot Sparkling Peach Paula awoke the morning after her second night of swing dancing much like she awoke after the... Read the story →
• Halloween Monsters Spectre Kyle and Miranda were the proud owners of the small farm and farmhouse out on Old Mill... Read the story →
• Fallpocalypse Spiked Cider Last week, we met our unnamed heroine, and her former coworker and fellow apocalypse survivor, dudebro Danny.... Read the story →
• Halloween Spoopy Martina awoke outside on the cold, damp grass as the sun was setting. “Why am I here?”... Read the story →
• Steel Roses Steel Rose (Chapter Six) Sarah woke up with a start from a series of strange dreams. She’d been several different princesses,... Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Stink Pretty Read the story →
• Steel Roses Stone Rose (Chapter Eight) Once upon a time, the queen was throwing a tantrum, again. She was pacing the halls of... Read the story →
• Fallpocalypse Sunset Bonfire The helicopter was flying towards their encampment on autopilot. She breathed a sigh of relief. Kevin started... Read the story →
• Villainess Superheroes Don't Wear Their Own Merch Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Swan Dive Read the story →
• Antiquarian Swashbuckler Compass Rose sighed, dumping out her pipe for fresh tobacco for what felt like the third time... Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Sweatpants Goblin Read the story →
• Miscellaneous T-Rex Arms Read the story →
• Tesseract Tesseract “You’ll never catch me!” Mandy yelled, sprinting through the field. The long blades of grass brushed up... Read the story →
• Miscellaneous The Audacity The Marchioness of Sparkinghamshire was aware that her way of living was no longer in fashion, but... Read the story →
• Miscellaneous The Next Chapter Marilyn felt like nothing was going right lately. She’d done the stupid thing and moved across the... Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Tranquility It wasn’t popular to visit her local botanical gardens in the winter, and that’s precisely why Lindsey... Read the story →
• Halloween Troll Food You know what they say: don’t feed the trolls. So what are you to do when you’re... Read the story →
• Compass Rose True North Rose and her merry band of brigands sailed northward for several weeks, heading into increasingly colder temperatures.... Read the story →
• Shadow Witches Twilight Witch Read the story →
• Villainess Underpants on the Outside Read the story →
• Ancient Teas Victoriana Bridget sighed, staring up at the ceiling. “I’m. SO. BOOOOORED!” she cried out to her sister, who... Read the story →
• Elements Water “I love my children, I love my children, I love my children,” Marian mumbled under her breath... Read the story →
• Solar Witches Water Witch Read the story →
• Villainess We're Really Not So Different, You and I Read the story →
• Miscellaneous What Fresh Hell is This? Read the story →
• Sweet Shoppe Wintergreen Freeze Patty and Candy had had a long, exhausting day. The Rootbeer Pastilles had turned out to be... Read the story →
• Steel Roses Wood Rose (Chapter Seven) Ellie sighed dramatically, rolling her eyes at her mother, Alice, who was relating for the thousandth time... Read the story →
• Ancient Teas Xanadu Deep in the jungle on the outskirts of civilization, a man is lost, confused, and scared. He’s... Read the story →
• Villainess You Caught Me Monologuing Read the story →
• Miscellaneous Your Skeleton is Always Wet Read the story →