“Am I eventually going to be taken away like Mom?”Hair as black as ebony, the fairest skin, thrifted clothes covering self-inflicted scars, always in her well-worn boots, Elia was healing on the outside; but the cuts on the inside were the ones that hurt the most. At 17, Elia was tired of tiptoeing around her mother, a—someday my prince will come, waiting to be rescued, I want to be the star—mother. Her family’s female line or as she called them, The Horrifying Women, had a tight g...

“I wouldn’t become one of The Horrifying Women in my line. I know I had the genes for it. No princess life for me, no queen would emerge. No trying to be the star. I had to learn to let people in. I had to…”With the events of the summer behind her, Elia was off to a good start, a new beginning for her last year of high school. Senior year was a time for dances, final projects, and full-moon gatherings. She was 18 now, had the house to herself, and the ghosts of her past were behavi...

No rest ye frightened gentlemenFull of horror and dismay…When the St. Wenceslas Episcopal Church choir bus gets trapped in a snowdrift on the way to a Christmas Eve competition, the eleven members find their way to an inn run by the mysterious Innkeeper. Though disappointed that they won't get to the competition, they decide to make the best of it by opening their Secret Santa gifts.But the gifts they open are not the original presents they bought for each other. Ev...

No rest ye frightened gentlemenFull of horror and dismay…When the St. Wenceslas Episcopal Church choir bus gets trapped in a snowdrift on the way to a Christmas Eve competition, the eleven members find their way to an inn run by the mysterious Innkeeper. Though disappointed that they won't get to the competition, they decide to make the best of it by opening their Secret Santa gifts.But the gifts they open are not the original presents they bought for each other. Ev...