Stories

Mike has been having a horrible week. He refuses to talk to anyone, even though his mother knows he needs his friends. Maggie refuses to be pushed out of his life and comes to give him hell only to find out what has been happening. As Mike gets knocked from problem to problem is his life actually getting better?

Explorers surveying the galaxy find something humbling and frightening.

Mike isn’t happy with who he is and sees no prospects on the horizon, until Drew approaches him one day. Drew wants Mike to spot for him as he lifts weights, but it leads to so much more.

Every cedar holds a spirit. Every spirit longs for home.

When a young Japanese cedar sapling is transported to a Canadian zoo for a new “Trees of the World” exhibit, no one realizes it carries with it a kodama—an ancient tree spirit torn from its home. As the cedar begins to wither, strange phenomena ripple through the zoo, and a girl named Maureen O’Neil decides to find out why. With her mother's support, Maureen challenges the botanist who brought the tree overseas. A violent storm reveals the truth so, together, child, mother, and scientist undertake a journey to restore nature's balance.

Every night since the first day of December, Max's cat Aristoteles comes home with a blue, velvet pouch around his neck. Who is the person behind this special advent calendar and what will happen on Christmas Eve?

When Liam prepares to leave for the city, a final camping trip with his best friend Neil turns into a surreal encounter with an alien force—with catastrophic consequences. As Liam is remade from Neil‘s thoughts and memories, long buried truths are exposed.

It was insane to think the whole world’s population had died in the span of a few weeks. If I focused on what I didn’t know, on the fear I’d never see another living soul, I’d start screaming and never stop.

So I didn’t.

Michael's not looking forward to Saturday, and helping his mother out on her charity stall. But he's wrong; he's about to get an early Christmas present and the best one ever!

My best friend Maison agreed to kitten sit for his older sister as a peace offering. He wasn’t banking on losing one of them.

Daniel Jamison belongs to Delta Gamma Phi fraternity and they’re planning to hold a party on Halloween night. Unfortunately, things don’t go as planned, and you’ll have to read this short story it you want to discover what went wrong.