This is 'non-contest' Halloween story. Nancy Parker is trapped in an an endless cycle of harassment and intimidation in an orphanage but a ghoulish visitor offers her salvation and retribution against those who have trespassed against her... of course there is a price to pay.
Lotus Valley, once the site of an experimental matriarchal commune, hides secrets of forbidden desires and power. When four college friends arrive for a birthday getaway, they awaken spectral echoes of wild, gender-reversed parties—where women rule and men submit. The group gradually succumbs to the hidden energies of female empowerment, and find unspoken urges inside them awakening. A romantic and sultry tale of femdom and male obedience.
The masquerade was only a game—until Sienna followed a masked stranger into the crumbling halls above. There, she steps into a hidden world where every secret is touched by desire.
A number of dream filled nights leading up to Halloween lead a young woman to discover her true destiny. I had originally hoped to enter this story in the Halloween contest but about 20% of it was AI generated (I needed a kickstart after a bad bout of writers block and also some descriptions of historical events), and I wasn’t going to deceive anyone about AI use.
In "The Bloody Chamber of the Lily-Footed Bride," grieving widower Elias receives a supernatural call from his late wife Maria. Drawn by forbidden desire and ritualistic foot worship, he steps into an alternate reality where passion turns into a gothic, transformative erotic horror. What begins as sensual reunion with her lily-pale feet and velvet heat escalates into a devouring ecstasy of tiger-striped flesh, mirrors, and surrender—where pleasure rewrites the body and soul forever.
When college roommates Zack (a gym bro) and Aryan (a Game of Thrones nerd) get struck by lightning, their souls are pulled into Westeros by the Three-Eyed Raven to fix a glitched timeline. To do it, they must inhabit the characters and force them to commit the exact scandalous deeds required to set history straight.
In a world of magic and mysticism, elves have reigned in the north lands for uncounted aeons - immortal and changeless. But now, tales from the south, carried by refugee humans fleeing the devastation of their lands, speak of a teeming swarm of orcs rampaging across their lands. Now, elven steel and draconic might must be rallied...but is all as it seems?
A precocious girl of sixteen, Dana Summer also has the gift of precognition. The family holiday includes helping her paleo archeologist father with his research. At first sight of a visiting California step-cousin, events start to unfold in mystical ways. Almost immediately drawn to the college boy, Dana is with him when they experience a shattering convulsion of earth and time that throws them into a very distant, quite different past.