The Organization for the Cleansing and Resurrection of Earth (OCRE) has arrived. Its soldiers have Awakened. Flawless beings who wield the extraordinary power of their minds, unfettered by fear, doubt, or weakness.They’re on a mission to cast out frail and defective human beings, and elevate the rest of humanity towards its utmost divine potential.There’s only one problem: Rolam, the OCRE’s newly Awakened soldier. Something is wrong with him. He’s not perfect.He err...

*Finalist for 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in Speculative Fiction Category for Canadian authors*When I was seven, my mother died. I struck a bargain with the Gods to bring her back to life.For thirteen years now, I have served as a Harbinger of Death, coaxing dying wishes out of mortals so that the God of Death may grant them moksha, liberation from the cycles of birth and death.The man about to die this evening claims he has not...

You don’t need eyes, let alone a mirror, to peer into the depths of your own soul.Sight is a privilege denied to everyone by law in the land of Parinara. Every child is blindfolded at birth. Even the dead are buried blindfolded. To see is an unpardonable crime, punishable by death.Yet, fifteen-year-old Viola indulges in a momentary curiosity and violates the law, only to find that the gift of sight comes at an exorbitant price.To look outward, she m...

Countless gods you pray to. Only one answers. It will cost her dearly.In a land where gods have long mastered the art of ignoring the prayers of human beings, a new goddess arrives. She desires nothing more than to help those who call out in faith.But every choice, no matter how noble, comes with its own consequences. Even the benevolent goddess will have to pay a steep price if she chooses to follow her heart’s desire.

When you lose someone you love, how far would you go in search of them?And what if the only way you can find them is by first losing yourself along the way?Devastated by grief at the loss of her beloved dog, Leo, Heidi ventures into the woods behind her home, hoping to find him there.She meets strange and eccentric characters along the way, but no one seems inclined to give her a straight answer about Leo’s...

A lavender farm in summer. A fifteen-year-old girl who loves the colours of sunset. A handsome stranger who begs her to run away with him.It could have been a love story. Except, it is not that kind of a story.When a strange man approaches Rebecca Classion outside her farmhouse in the dead of the night and begs her to not go back inside, she does what any sensible fifteen-year-old would do. She runs straight back into the safety of ho...

All it takes to seal your fate is a single thought. The Mind Meddler will sneak it into your mind when you aren’t looking.True to his name, the Mind Meddler messes with people’s minds. He plants a single innocuous thought in his victim’s mind, then steps back and watches as it slowly ensnares and destroys them.The ghost-girl has the gift of pure sight. She sees nothing but the truth. The objective, unadulterated truth. Without judgement or deliberation. Tho...

Welcome to The Dream Pedlar's emporium of delightful dreams and wondrous whimsies, of impossible illusions and fleeting fantasies!Behold a captivating collection of 100 flash fiction tales where the mundane morphs into the magical, the everyday shape-shifts into the exceptional, and the inconceivable becomes the inevitable.Where witches promise to reveal the secret of happiness and wise old men whisper wisdom and warnings in your ears.Where you summ...

Every child’s favourite game. One mother’s worst nightmare.In a seemingly endless game of hide-and-seek, a mother looks for her child in all his favourite hiding spots. But he has hidden himself so well she’s unable to find him.Then she comes up with the perfect bait to coax him out. His favourite toys!Will they entice him to reveal himself? Or has she been playing the wrong game all along?Hide-and-Seek secured an Honourable Ment...

On the morning after his seventh birthday, Skyla gives her son a gift without his knowledge. Also, without his consent.She has all his painful memories excised from his brain.She considers it the best gift of all. The memory of a perfect childhood.But no one can possibly gift something that simply does not exist. At least, not without unfortunate consequences.Memory Games secured an Honorable Mention in...

The worst is not what happens.The worst is what every mother fears could happen.Imagination collides with maternal fear in this bold collection of troubling, twisted tales from a fiction writer who isn’t afraid to plumb the often terrifying emotional depths of the motherhood experience.A party across the street lures a trusting three-year-old into an adventure, but thrusts his mother into a nightmare.A mirror offers...

Storytime is my realm. I am the expert at spinning bedtime stories for my four-year-old child. It’s a ritual both of us look forward to every evening, much to my husband’s consternation.Tonight, I intend to tell my little one a ghost story. Not to spook him, but as an exercise in imagination. A blurring of lines between fact and fiction.Little do I know that he has a ghost story of his own to share with me. A tale that is truer than all the lies... erm, stories... I’v...