The train shudders and warm chardonnay bounces from the can onto my A-line skirt. Inches from my head a canopy of swinging branch arms...

“Bring out your dead!” Raking slender fingers through raven hair in frustration, Laurel scowled at the scene beyond her window. She knew...

Full title: Being a True and Accurate Account of the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Witches/Warlocks Council December 2022 A free...

I call my friend to warn her that the Doomsday Clock is predicting imminent annihilation. “But it’s been at ninety seconds for decades,”...

I have no idea how long he was sitting there. “The mail hasn’t come yet.” I jumped. My skin itched, a million invisible spiders suddenly...

I was grateful you’d warned me they were coming. The cottage felt the thud of hooves on the mossy forest floor before anything else. It...

I didn't talk to the girl in the mirror, at least not at first. Even though we looked alike, we were not the same. I didn't know where...

Welcome, my sweet child, come in, close the door, look over here. I have everything you ever wanted, and some other things you didn’t...

A megadrought parched the lake, uncovering the ancient village of Silvado where, according to popular legend, hundreds drowned after a...

Cauldrons and black cats, brooms and spells, warts on noses and horrible cackles. From Mildred Hubble in The Worst Witch to the Wicked...

TRIGGER WARNING: contains mentions of self-harm and overall self-destructive madness, the loss of a child, death, and body horror...

I always look at a tree with wonder...

The most common question I’ve been asked as founder and editor-in-chief of Toil & Trouble Literary Magazine is: “Why and how did you do it?”

I stand in the middle of the small room that smells of mildew and listen to the dog barking next door in long exaggerated howls. I wonder...

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