BY KILLARNEY TRAYNOR Directors, producers, actors, and screenwriters are all storytellers who put their own complexion on stories. Read more

By Stuart S. Laing Word Count: 5237 Rating: PG Summary: Scottish Soldiers tell stories around the Barracks Edinburgh, Scotland 1st November 1746 “Och, we may as well make ourselves comfortable. That rain isn’t going to let up any time soon.” Sergeant Angus MacIan of Edinburgh’s Town Guard gave a slow shake of his grey head as Read more

By: Sean Romer Word Count: 188 Rating: G Summary: A description of battle between the inhabitants of Oz and Wonderland. I wonder what an Oz vs. Wonderland grudge match would have been like? When the Hatter’s clock struck eleventeen, the Wicked Witch’s Flying Monkey battalions launched a salvo against the halberdier card troops, smudging their Read more

By Jessica Beaubien (alias Niaf) Word Count: 27542 Rating: PG for moments of peril Summary: The alternate account of the Chamber of Secrets seen through Snape’s eyes. Severus could still remember the surprise at the quiet week he’d had with the child. He could still remember that first Friday night when he’d sat at his desk Read more

BY TIMOTHY MATHER All the selfishness, all the hate, all the spite are of those things that make us aware of our facing the shadows rather than the light. Read more

BY LAWRENCE S. HOWE & M.C. PEHRSON Cecil B. DeMille never heard of us or even cared, and in exchange we never gave him cause to worry about competition. Read more

BY M.C. PEHRSON “Living Water is ordinary water that has been consecrated by a priest and so contains the very essence of God.” Read more

By Rachel Atterholt Word Count: 2158 Rating: PG Summary: Will and Elizabeth Turner are only allowed to meet every ten years. Can their love survive? What is it like to love someone? To give something away that you’ve hidden deep inside you so it wouldn’t be broken again? Is loving someone like taking a leap Read more

BY ISABELLA SUMMITT Everything about this movie is halved—in my opinion, most of the good juicy horror moments and the acting. Read more

By Emily Kopf Word Count: 1738 Rating: PG Summary: A fan-fiction based on A Noble Masquerade by Kristi Ann Hunter. Author’s Note: This is a fanfiction based on the novel A Noble Masquerade by Kristi Ann Hunter. It is a historical, Christian romance set in the early 1800s. In a complicated and humorous plot, the two Read more

BY CATHERINE STEWART My heart dropped as my fears were confirmed I was pregnant; for this I had not yearned. Where do I go? To whom can I turn? Read more

BY AVELLINA BALESTRI I am a dentist. My craft is the cleansing of teeth, the bones that rim our mouths from which are words are given life. Read more

By Cheryl Anne, Originally published Oct 25 2016 Word Count: 148 Rating: G Summary: A poem for All Saints Day At this time of the Thinning Veil, may we remember All Saints and All Souls who have ventured before us into the Otherworld, which at all times lies just a breath beyond us. At this Read more

“Oh, Harry, you’re… wow. Wow. Have you been practicing your human transfiguration? How did you get the wrinkles? Oh, and the eyes, they’re the exact shade of blue, I swear. And those robes! Where on earth did you get something that… uh… unique?” Read more

BY AVELLINA BALESTRI “The worthy are the unworthy, and the unworthy made worthy by a word. Drink the wine, and the blood, and the word.” Read more

BY CHRISTOPHER WOODS According to the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar, the following day, November 1st, is the Feast of All Saints. Read more

“I think it’s time you heard the story of Penny, how your mother saved him from the cruel clutches of one Jigy Nye, how her grandfather found that horse years later and gave her back to your mother. That is one very special horse.” Read more

By Jessica Beaubien (alias Niaf) Word Count: 27542 Rating: PG for moments of peril Summary: The alternate account of the Chamber of Secrets seen through Snape’s eyes. Severus sighed heavily. Change. That was not something he wanted to think about. Change meant complication. Complications that would impact too many aspects of his life and this bloody Read more

BY LARAMIE HIRSCH For the longest time, people thought that you could only see five planets in the sky.   Read more

“I am the gentle touch upon your hair, I am the comfort and companionship when no one else is there.” Read more