The last peach-orange rays of sunset punching through the clouds would have been beautiful, Mags thought, if they didn’t herald the...

Check the windows Check the locks Check the basement — what’s in that box? Did you bring it in? ‘Cause I sure didn’t. I think I’d...

I don't even realize we're under attack until the dragons blow the fuel dump. The explosion hits our hangar - situated nearly a quarter...

Sometimes that thing in the corner is just your cat’s scratching post Other times that thing in the corner is already halfway to you...

I winced as Carraway lit another cigarette. "Jee-zus, man," I said. "You fixin' to go through the whole carton tonight?" Carraway didn't...

Scuttling forth each quarter moon from the darkest depths of our once-proud heritage; that coal-choked, aching abyss Them we dare not...

Thomas leapt just as I crested the knoll, lithely snatching the frisbee as it sailed overhead. "Nice catch," I called. Thomas turned, his...

wanna know how your Aunt Margot really died? The words wander over from the other side of Margot’s old room above Gramma’s detached...

The dropship thunders into the troposphere, leaving sickly yellow chemtrails in its wake and rattling the transparisteel ceiling above...

We awoke to a bloody mess in our front yard Julie tells me that Wikipedia says that coyotes can be especially aggressive during mating...

Alma was climbing into her escape pod when another fusion core went supernova. The explosion rocked the Commissar, despite the colony...

She came to our doorstep one blustery, snow-swept afternoon looking for a playmate I didn't think twice plus laptop-addled Mother had...

Her informant was late. Detective Carver had warned her this might happen, but Gaige still found her head snapping up every time the...

My daily bedtime doomscroll done I roll and reach for my charging cord way down there on the floor As my fingers fumble through deep-pile...