Grim Reapers are meant to escort the dead to the Reincarnation Well, where every soul is stripped of one life and sent into the next reincarnation. Akuji Nhyiren-Osei, Keeper of Death, has spent lifetimes ensuring one woman never reaches the unlucky fate waiting for her there. When the Gods condemn his friend Sairus to an eternity of cursed reincarnations, Akuji begins secretly interfering with the futures the Sisters of Fate have chosen for her. Each interference pushes Sairus farther from the destiny heaven once promised. Sairus was supposed to be the greatest heroine, marry the Crown Prince Yhnobi, and save creation from the Devil God. But Sairus had already chosen someone else. Ravyn, a raven-masked immortal with no past the Gods can find. Then, a deceased woman named Abasa clings to life, refusing to be taken by the Grim Reaper. Before the Grim Reaper claims her, she utters Sairus's name, unveiling a secret Akuji has buried for a lifetime about Ravyn and Sairus. Forgotten lives claw their way back to the surface, and Sairus regains enough memory to comprehend what the Gods have done to her. Akuji sought to grant his friend the liberty to forge her own path. Instead, he may have unwittingly birthed the Villainess destined to obliterate theirs. As Sairus allies with Yhnobi, the Devil God she was once fated to vanquish, their insurrection ignites a movement among the Forgotten People. Now, the Gods demand Akuji rectify his decision and stop Sairus and Yhnobi, who threaten their control over mortals. To save the world, Akuji may have to become Sairus's enemy. To save his friends, he may have to stand beside a Villainess, a Devil God, and Ravyn as they race to the end of the world together. Akuji has spent his existence delivering souls into the hands of the Gods. Now he must decide whether his sacred duty is to protect their world...or help his friends end it so each person can have the free will to choose who they love.

"You can't run, you can't fight, you can't hide, the darkness is everywhere... and it will always be... there is no way out of the death's claws." Between angels and demons... That's what we are, aren't we? But what do you do when the goodness in you dies and the demon wants to get out and kill you because of the fallen angel? **This is supposed to be a notebook written by a girl, too lonely, isolated from all the life she believes real. You need imagination to see the red and clean calligraphy with the highlighted words. This is what the story is about.

Naaz Rashid should have died. She doesn't know why she survived. She doesn't know what happened to her. And, at first, she has no reason to believe that her inexplicable brush with death has anything to do with the strange events that begin unfolding afterward. But strange things have a habit of becoming stranger. A curse is released. Old secrets begin resurfacing. People separated by distance and time find themselves connected by circumstances they cannot explain. The past begins bleeding into the present, while discoveries at the edges of science suggest that some things dismissed as superstition may be far more tangible than anyone would like to believe. There are haunted places, buried histories, impossible phenomena and people whose greatest threat may not be what lurks outside them, but what lies within. And somewhere amid the horror, the absurdity and the occasional moments of dreadful normality, one question remains: What, exactly, did Naaz survive? Because whatever happened that day was not the end of something. It was the beginning.

When Catalina Delgado discovers that her family's livestock has been viciously attacked during the night, she enlists the help of a notorious outlaw to track down the animal that did it. But as they soon find out, this animal is the thing of legends and something out of their worst nightmares.

In the mist-shrouded town of Bramblewood, an ancient chapel stands abandoned, its crooked spire a silent witness to generations of secrets. When a stranger arrives, claiming to hold the key to the town's salvation, whispers of miracles spread through the weary community. But each miracle leaves a shadow-a sickness of the soul, a fracture in reality. Schoolteacher Sarah Coombs is no stranger to Bramblewood's darkness. Haunted by her father's descent into madness and the town's suffocating stillness, she is thrust into a battle against an ancient, unspeakable force when the chapel awakens. As the hum of the old god rises, and the town falls under its spell, Sarah and a handful of resistors must confront the unthinkable truth: salvation always comes at a cost. In this gothic tale of sacrifice, inevitability, and cosmic horror, Bramblewood becomes the battleground for a war between humanity's fragile defiance and the unrelenting hunger of an ancient god. And when the stranger makes his final stand, Sarah will discover the true cost of resisting the inevitable.

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐲𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐧 A pair of teen werewolves are traveling with their packmates. On the last night of their trip they come to rest at a beach with a picturesque view of a forested isle. The local witches warn of an ancient curse. The perfect location to rile up the pups with good old fashioned scary stories. One Elder has a unique story to tell, a grisly legend that would enthrall them to a fault. Every legend was once rooted in reality, and some come back to bite... Entered in the 2026 Shorty's Awards!

After her husband is killed by a mysterious attacker in the woods, Camille struggles to cope with the grief of his loss and the darkness it brought with it.