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Laurie Tom

Unfilial Child

Published Jul 8, 2019 · 3,986 words (15 minutes) · 8 likes · 206 views

Fantasy dark fantasy folklore urban fantasy

June tries to be a dutiful granddaughter, always bringing gifts on her weekend visits (if not a husband or great-grandchildren). But when her grandmother takes in a mysterious infant, June learns her own childhood⁠—and her parents’ disappearance⁠—may not have been what it seemed.

Author Laurie Tom lives in Los Angeles, and her work has appeared in Galaxy’s Edge, IGMS, Crossed Genres, and many more.

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S. N. Arly

Something Familiar

Updated Jul 6, 2019 · 5,048 words (19 minutes) · 264 views

Fantasy Witchcraft contemporary Shape-shifter magic young adult teen urban fantasy Paris

Follow a runaway shape-shifter’s quest for a safe home and a teen witch’s search for a familiar. This is the first chapter of a new novella.

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Hayley Stone

Faith Bacon Dances Again

Published Jul 1, 2019 · 781 words (3 minutes) · 84 views

Fantasy Humor ghosts urban fantasy ghost stories female protagonist

A theater manager recalls the time she met Faith Bacon's ghost.

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Laura Anne Gilman

The River Always Wins

Published Jun 28, 2019 · 3,991 words (15 minutes) · 2 views

Fantasy friendship urban fantasy New York City club scene

I was never a club kid, but I had friends who were, and the stories they told made me both thankful it wasn't my scene, and sorry I'd missed out. And with the passing of so many legendary NYC music clubs, when I was asked to write something for THE UNDERWATER BALLROOM SOCIETY, I knew exactly where my story would be set...

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Jessica Reisman

Our Lady of the Mantilla

Published Apr 25, 2019 · 4,628 words (17 minutes) · 244 views

Fantasy Humor Magical Realism urban fantasy

When the things haunting the books in the archive get loose, this team is on the case.

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Vanessa Fogg

Taiya

Published Apr 19, 2019 · 4,059 words (15 minutes) · 6 likes · 584 views

Fantasy ghosts urban fantasy dark fiction quiet and eerie

Karen and Patrick move across the world and into a new home, only to be haunted by the faint cries of a taiya, a spirit eaten by grief so old it no longer knows the cause of its own sorrow. They might be able to starve it into disappearing—if Karen can break the pull she feels toward it. Author Vanessa Fogg has published many pieces of beautiful, haunting short fiction as well as a novella, available now from Annorlunda Books.

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Laura Anne Gilman

Dusted

Published Apr 13, 2019 · 6,949 words (26 minutes) · 262 views

Fantasy Mystery urban fantasy cosa nostradamus implied sexual elements (not explicit)

A teenaged girl. An underground fairyland. And a not-quite-human PI who specializes in missing children....

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Loren Rhoads

Mr. Moonlight

Published Apr 4, 2019 · 493 words (2 minutes) · 97 views

Fantasy fairy tale urban fantasy female protagonist fairies Alondra DeCourval

Ten-year-old Alondra DeCourval faces one of the creatures that roams the woods outside her mother's farm.

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Carrie Vaughn

Just Another Word

Published Mar 25, 2019 · 1,687 words (7 minutes) · 2 likes · 344 views

Fantasy music urban fantasy Janis Joplin Faerie Queen

This is a story about Janis Joplin and a chance meeting in a Texas bar.

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Charlotte Platt

Pickpocket

Published Mar 20, 2019 · 3,923 words (15 minutes) · 117 views

Fantasy urban fantasy mermaids Paris

A young man selling trinkets in the Paris summer makes an unusual discovery.