From midnight to dawn the morning of Valentine's Day, Angeline’s Flowers opens its doors for a special overnight shift, admitting anyone who casts no shadow, casts two shadows, or whose shadow doesn’t match...

“This here’s Belladona.” The guide led over a large red griffin, and I eyed the creature. Why couldn’t my parents just leave me back at the cabin, happily immersed in a book? Belladona tipped her head and...

Dead leaves crunched under Charlie’s weathered boots as he shuffled through the woods. His fourteen-inch hobgoblin frame, yellowish and twiggy, blended in with the October colors of the forest around him. Half...

The sound of a Harmony Patrol was distinctive. You could hear them blocks before they arrived in sight, the crisp stamp-tramp of their shiny white boots synchronized to the point of being robotic. Lise...

A stranger in a wool overcoat retreats from the panicked crowd and stops next to me. I was surveying the starry horizon when he drew near. He seems calm. I stick out my hand. “It seems we’re in the same...