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Chicken Houses and Scattershot Plots Author: Genna Rose Nethercott Baba Yaga is a witch who lives in a house that walks on chicken legs. Her powers are both weird and wonderful, her abilities uncanny, her morality an ephemeral thing. One day she will cure you, the next she’ll strip the skin from your body to make her daughters’ slippers. Her legacy is one of magic, but it’s also one of generational trauma, of haunted memories, of death and destruction. Today, Baba Yaga has two flighty descendants. Isaac Yaga, aka Chameleon Man, was born with the power to emulate anyone, to shed [...]

2024-10-21T10:36:46-07:00October 21st, 2024|Tags: , , , , , |

Shark Heart

Would you still love me if I were a shark? Author: Emily Habeck Newlyweds Lewis and Wren dream of many things. Lewis, a failed actor and beloved teacher, still dreams that one day he will write the play to end all plays. And Wren, she dreams of never being abandoned again, of embracing someone who will stay. Both will have their hearts broken. Lewis notices the changes at first and thinks nothing of them, but eventually he puts aside his avoidance and goes to the doctor. The diagnosis is stark. His body is, indeed, changing, and there is nothing they can [...]

2024-10-15T10:24:39-07:00October 15th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , , |

Bucket of Ashes

When the Past Comes Calling Author: P.B. Ryan Nell Sweeny is forced to confront her troubled past. A young governess in post-Civil War Boston, she is ostensibly respectable. Childless, devoted, apparently unmarried. But, of course, Nell is none of those things. She is secretly pregnant thanks to the house’s infamous black sheep – Will Hewitt – a man torn apart by his own demons of addiction. She’s also married, her husband a violent criminal, in jail. Now the dead murderer found nearby is proven to be her estranged brother. Things are coalescing for Nell – the difference between the outwardly respectable [...]

2024-10-14T10:41:32-07:00October 14th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , |
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