A Halloween 2023 Contest Entry
When Sam and Ashley Bridgeton buy their first house, they believe their dreams have been fulfilled. They were blessed with a beautiful daughter nine years ago, and now their very own house. And what a house! A house they should not be able to afford, but fortune is smiling upon them. Or is it? Their dream house is turning into a nightmare. Terrifying their daughter. Pitting wife against husband. Will their marriage survive? Will they survive?
This single chapter story is part of the chain story/universe about the genie Laresa, who is contained in a ring. This story has to do with her adventures with a German intelligence officer and his old flame in the latter part of the Second World War.
A young peasant woman and her childhood friend enter the cottage of a dead village witch, looking for secrets among ash, herbs, and old rumours. But Mother Alis has left behind more than charms. In the cold room, desire becomes memory, witness, and the last warmth one woman was never allowed to keep.
A The Lawgiver Story Part of the Haven Tails universe
The title is somewhat sarcastic, but this story continues the tale of Mark, the man who lives with his pregnant supervisor, an equally pregnant pharmacist, and a sexually frustrated Mormon girl with a fetish for boots. Read as their family mushrooms from that small household to become necessary to the survival of the human race.
Steve had a very involved dream when he was a young man, but it was lost. Now he has just remembered the whole thing. What happened then and will happen now?