The tornado sirens began just as Amanda started up her pickup truck in the dark of the night and sped off the property, spraying gravel back at her fiancé’s house. She saw Brent through the rearview mirror as he charged out to the porch and put his hands on his hips, an anguished look on […]
Author’s Notes: The World of Plague of Dead
What if the Black Death was not just a bubonic plague? What if it was a zombie plague? What if whenever someone died of the Black Death, they arose again as a zombie within a few minutes of death?
A Genie for the Foolish
The genie said, “I will grant you three wishes.”
The man thought for a moment and said, “For my first wish, I wish I had a thousand wishes.”
The Frog Next Door
A gender-flipped modern retelling of The Frog-King, or Iron Henry from Grimm’s Fairy Tales Jan Caldwell was a divorced single mom with three handsome sons. But the youngest of her sons, Ash, was especially striking. Whenever his grandfather came to visit the grandsons, he would often tell the youngest that the sun was astonished whenever […]
The Headstrong Child
A gender-flipped modern retelling of The Wilful Child from Grimm’s Fairy Tales Once upon a time there was a child who was headstrong, and would not listen to his dad. For this reason, he had bad karma and got very sick. No doctor could help him, and he soon died. When they put him in […]
The Boy of Hinkel
A gender-flipped modern retelling of The Maid of Brakel from Grimm’s Fairy Tales A boy from Hinkel went to St. Finnegan’s Chapel at the foot of the Brannenberg. He wanted to have a wife and thought there was no one else in the chapel. The boy knelt beneath the statue of Saint Finnegan and his […]