‘Don’t go out on the moors,’ said the mistress of the house. She giggled and flounced away. For a long time, she didn’t, instead frowning out of the glitter-framed windows…
She woke each day and smiled at the shadow in the corner of her room. It was a ritual. A thing that made the shadow less looming in the dark…
She was in love with the lake. With the murky waters and spiralling dust lit up like stars in the sickly sunbeams. With dark fish that darted around her, curious…
He stared down at the lake, hands splayed against the rocky ground. His reflection was blurry in spite of the glistening surface and high sun. He blinked, and the image…
‘Hi. Welcome to the Make-A-Monster Workshop, where you can literally Make A Friend.’ The greeter’s smile was so bright, it looked like it had come with his cheerful blue uniform….
The tour group moved on. He glanced around as the display room emptied. When he was certain that it was just him and a lit case of bones, he took…
Every day, the hound watched the sun set over the graveyard, walking between the headstones, nose quivering in search of a particular scent. As the sun vanished behind the mountains…
He hurried home across the park, hands thrust deep into his pockets. The moon was too sickly to light his path, leaving the lake a looming void. ‘Quack.’ The sound…
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….
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…