The dragon lowered a rainbow-hued head to sniff the small, furry morsel. To her surprise, it hissed and puffed up, and swiped at her with surprising aggression. Perhaps it was…
Red light gleamed from the dark hollows of her eyes. Her skin grew aged and leathery as parchment. She bared cruelly pointed teeth. ‘This is what I am,’ she said….
‘Can I get you anything?’ he asked. ‘A cup of tea?’ ‘No, thank you.’ ‘I insist.’ Reid found himself sipping gingerly at a cup of tea a few minutes later….
Some loves transcend death, and so it was Lola. Every day, she waited in the window for her human, her tail clacking against the windowsill. When she heard a car…
The cat turned its back to him and started grooming. After a pause, he pinched the end of its tail. It hissed and spun, swiping at the empty air where…
When her mother cut down the green jelly beast, she’d watched its remains ooze into the earth. ‘Keep back,’ her mother warned. But later, when a small chunk of green…
‘We await your response by sparrow?’ I murmured, reading the letter again. Something about destiny, the fate of many, and ‘answering the call’ … I turned it over and looked…
The fox’s fur shimmered in the streetlights — not copper, but gold. Its disconcertingly blue eyes were fixed on his face. Its tail swept aside, revealing a bracelet of golden…
The ritual began with paint. Smeared across the eyes, across the lips, exaggerating the features, exaggerating the magic. Then a nose to draw the eye: look here. Look at me….
It’s dark. Rain rolls and bounces through the forest canopy and chimes against the windows of their little hut. They don their coat and hood, fill their pockets with pebbles,…