Have I ever told you about my mother’s familiar and his secret? For reasons I don’t understand, my mother has always had cat magic. I’ve since met other people with…
It was meltingly hot, which was a problem for someone made of ice. She stared at her hands, normally a perfect cloudy glass, now slick and shrinking. ‘That’s it,’ said…
Thunder rumbled. He gazed out the window in frightened fixation. His was the only house around. Lightning struck the tree outside. When the storm passed, he ran out to mourn…
They say that if you walk the lake at noon on the summer solstice, it fills with light and colour. A local superstition found in no books but on everyone’s…
I held perfectly still. A breeze shook the tree; I shook with it. ‘Hehehe,’ I said. ‘They’ll never even know I was here …’ The goblins below frowned up at…
As she made her way to the greenhouse, poppies and peonies turned their heads to follow her. Inside, succulent plantlings unpotted themselves and tottered over on mobile roots to crowd…
‘Is that … a human?’ We crowded around the snivelling thing, bald and pink as a baby rat. I flicked my ears at my sister; she quirked her whiskers and…