Complete List of Stories
Entries marked (*) are illustrated.
Flash Fiction:
- #119 Suicide: Ruben Mancusco has a lot to answer for after a school fight. If nothing else, his actions led to art.
- Boris: A rather well-to-do dog has literary pretensions. Somewhat P. G. Wodehouse, perhaps?
- Celebee: When good werewolves turn bad…
- Cephony’s Bear: The bear waves at Cephony. She waves back. It’s the beginning of an unusual friendship…
- Cheer up: Tanika has ‘one of those faces’ that just doesn’t look happy. But there’s nothing she can do about that. Or is there?
- Chickens of the Dead(*): The quick, the fast and the food — a vegan exorcist fights the chicken undead.
- Clara’s Question: After the death of their father, two sisters return to the scene of the accident.
- Daughter of Cronus: Hera finally decides to ambush Darren Snider and ask him out. But does he really like her?
- Dòmhnull Dubh: Duncan McFallen McDonald is a rally driving sensation, but will Black Donald end his career?
- Dreams on the Estate: At night, Shelly wanders around her housing estate with a palomino. Of course it’s a dream. Right?
- Electrica Amor Vincit Omnia: Electric love conquers all — all this man needs is an electric heart.
- Evening News: Homeless Lachlan has learned to talk to the birds.
- Feyada: As sharp as they are, Feyada can’t believe her own eyes. She gets off the bus to investigate.
- Fitcher’s Curve: Karly McBride goes in search of her lost father, starting with his last work of road construction.
- Gyoza and Pushchairs: Shopping for gyoza, Sandy has a run-in with a pushchair. Her shadow tries to commiserate…
- Hell’s Roses: Lippy Lee wants to take China by storm, but will Rascal beat her to the graffiti hall of fame?
- How to Catch a ‘Noo-noo’(*): Jessica gets organized in her attempts to capture a Christmas fairy.
- Ilia’s Frozen Fingers: Ilia makes haste skating to the old Krasotka iron mill.
- Last Word, Final Sentence: Johans Montefiore has been cursed. Will he survive the fate that has been written upon him?
- Lion on the Court: Kelly finds a lion basking in the sunshine. Maybe it can help him to become the next big thing in volley ball.
- Lisa@*******madwolf.com: Lisa’s BFF just found out about the arrest, but Lisa can’t be a werewolf. Can she?
- Lucy is a Werewolf: Being friends with a werewolf is kinda’ like keeping a pet…
- Miss Briana: Miss Briana comes each day to the Flodden wall to meet the guardsman Calla. But what of the stories the wall protects against?
- My Dream Horse: Tracy has always wanted a horse, so when one turns up in the middle of the night, she decides to keep it.
- My Mother Believes in Giants: Alios’ mother creates giant artefacts from the landscape, but is she sculpting something imagined or uncovering something real?
- Nothing But a Cold Digger: When Tammy sees a ghost, one of her friends realises their long-term haunting is over.
- Oberbaumbrucke, 1988: An old postcard brings back memories of lost love in Berlin.
- Samuel Watches the Cat: An allotment owner rather dislikes the neighbourhood cat.
- Snowbathing: Claire decides to protest over climate change by taking up Snowbathing.
- Spring Tidings – a Christmas Story: A young girl mourns her grandmother while observing a pagan Christmas tradition.
- Tattooed to the Bone(*): Jimmy Ju Long’s tattoo parlor makes some rather painful body art.
- The International Circuit: Eachann is proud of his unbeaten reputation. But when he’s approached by a Greek promoter, has he taken on a fight too far?
- The Last Kazarine: Father Markus closes the door on the desert and the great wall, but why the severed, stone heads on the table?
- The Old Jensen Place: The Old Jensen Place is the most reliable haunting in the Southern Central United States. You want a ticket?
- The Old Woman Who Eats Kids(*): A boy creates a runaway myth about an old woman who eats children.
- The Star: Tauri and her momma go to confront her famous father, but will he speak to them?
- The Wallpaper Forest: During an unscheduled stay-over at his grandparents’ house, Sam encounters the Green Man and some older legends.
- Tiger Tempera: Matty, a paint roller and a Sumatran tiger… what could go wrong?
- Wet Nurse: A man’s wife gives birth, but where have she and his son gone?
- What Burns Inside: Can the revengeful flame of a lover’s heart be kept alive a little longer?
- “Wow. Ow. Bow. How. Ow. Ow.â€: A story for dogs that won’t shut up.
- You Killed Whiteclaw: An exterminator strikes up a friendship with a kitten, but maybe it wants more than just his lunch…
- Your Kung Fu’s Pretty Good, Old Man. You’re Not Too Bad Either, Old Woman: Grandma and Grandpa pull no punches in this Kung Fu adventure, subtitled: ‘The Night of a Hundred Arthritic Blows’.
Short Stories:
- Azazel’s With Me(*): A teenage witch uses a rather dubious boyfriend to fit in.
- Bambayag Day: Mrs Bambayag is an old lady who likes to kill parties.
- Glaistig: Danielle helps out on the city farm. Now she’s mucked out the byre, will she see the Glaistig?
- I Made £65.70 for Sick Cats Last Week: Laura Campbell swears to reclaim her grandfather’s allotment.
- Ma James: Ma James is out as dawn is breaking. But who’s the boy on the bridge and why is she going to meet him?
- Mama has gone to kill Nicolae: Mama and the knife are gone. ‘Wait in the van,’ she said, in the boundary between our world and the Twilight.
- Mei-Yin: Tiffany is amazed when Mei-Yin comes back. Can that be possible? And where is the cat taking her now?
- No, That Seat’s for Vincent P: Leigh discovers her mother’s taste in Gothic furniture may have attracted a visitor.
- The Mushroom Culture(*): fairies meet some damn good clubbing in Costa Del Toadstool-os.
- Ya Milango: Doto lives an enchanted existence, but Maso has come to hate her as she grows older. A short story with its roots in Madagascan legend.
Serial Fiction:
- Black Door Pt. I: Softly Does It: Mr Softly is on a Mission — a not very nice Mission.
- Black Door Pt. II: Rowan: On the hunt, Rowan finds herself caught up in the Edinburgh Festival.
- Black Door Pt. III: Adam: Adam finds life getting complicated at the World’s End Hostel.
- Black Door Pt. IV: Softly, Bearing Gifts: Mr Softly ventures on his way to meet with the Clutcher.
- Black Door Pt. V: The Garden of Dismal Deaths: Softly finds what he’s looking for in the Garden of Dismal Deaths.
Poetry:
- Jack ‘o’ the Lantern: Guisers (trick or treaters) go out-and-about on Halloween.
- The Hangmen(*): The clubbing scene — being at and dancing in clubs.
- The Siege: Nature lays siege to a ruined tower.