Stories

Originally a throwaway parody in The Straightest Lies We Tell Ourselves, this story lassos the cowboy trope of a city boy in search of himself and drags it straight, or not so straight, into a cowboy crisis.

A lonely gay teen joins a ghost-hunting club to get closer to his crush, only to fall in love with the ghost of a boy murdered at his school—and must uncover the truth behind the death before the past kills again.

Skee is trying to catch a song sparrow that eludes him. However, he is not the only predator in the woods. Will Skee ever catch his prey?

Imprisoned in a featureless space, Dave must face what his last chilling memory suggests. Can he escape, or will he remain perpetually trapped?

A decade after drifting apart, four millennial friends who once bonded online reunite at a secluded cabin, answering an invitation from the friend who always promised they would one day meet. As old memories resurface and new ones take shape, one question lingers:

Where is Chris?

A haunted laptop. A sunshine biologist. A grumpy comp sci major who doesn’t believe in ghosts—until his computer starts talking back.
To fix the glitch, Elliot and Noah will have to merge science, superstition, and one very judgmental black cat named Nyx.

Bo, a neurotic otter with a deadline and a questionable relationship with his houseplants, sets out to write the perfect Creature Feature.

A short story about a short, one night, encounter. Seventies London, two boys make a rendezvous.

A short story set in Tangiers, circa 1978, a young European encounters a Moroccan of a similar age.

As an unexpected arrival at the Academy and destined to become the most powerful psychic in history, how did Richter, the Gray Wolf, survive amidst countless scheming eyes and seize control of his fate?

All heroes must grow...