Yanamama

“This one?” The demon delicately plucked a porcelain head from the wire box using only the very tips of its claws. Still they scratched thin...

“Wolves!” The call resonated through the village, echoing from gritty stone walls. Fires flared as sleepy shepherds stirred embers awake, s...

Lily’s eyes drooped, then sprang open. The teacher raised an eyebrow at her, but said nothing.  It made no sense. She got enough sleep las...

His knees grew damp from the cold dirt under the house, even through the double-thickness of canvas. Good. He must be getting close to the b...

The reaper's blade threw chaff like butterflies glinting in the sunlight and covered me with dust before the blade fell ...

The shard fell fell fast as gravity the gravity of the situation fell on me as the shard fell fell like glass rain the rain of b...

“Mom I'm not very hungry. Can I just eat this much broccoli and still get dessert?” I lost it. I was tired of negotiating every mea...

“Ooh. That was a good one!” She spoke without turning. The collectors on her head were balanced just so, and they were perfectly tuned to th...

The guards hated the game. It had seemed like a silly summer pastime the first time, but the purpose had shifted from lighthearted goofing t...

The cannula slipped, allowing a slow trickle of blood to meander from his nose down his left cheek toward his ear, its path impeded by a wis...

The ants were the first to reach the bones, burrowing for precious calcium through quivering flesh whose owner was made blessedly insensate ...

She took off the mask because the world was safe She took off the mask because the nightmares had fled Back to the corners where the...

After the accident the island was cut off. Not just quarantined, but permanently isolated from the rest of the world. They still had radios ...

"Please, please, no!" He slammed his hand against the ATM, fingers scrabbling at the money slot, digging hopelessly for the colorf...

The boy hated that store. It was magic, but not in a good way. His mother called it different names - Macy's, Nordstrom's, Nieman Ma...

She dressed in black and wore ice blue eyes. Her yearbook picture featured her dripping blood and clinging to a cemetery cross. She was bras...