Awakenings

Halfway to Halloween

The calendar does not care about your comfort. Halfway to Halloween fell this week — quietly. If you felt it, a small chill that had nothing to do with the...

St. Patrick's Day Warning!

We should have seen it coming. Every year, March 17th rolls around and the leprechauns get bold. They tip over pints, hide your keys, turn your milk green. Harmless stuff,...

Crossing the Threshold: An End-of-Year Account

There is a moment each year that does not belong to either side of time. It happens after the last obligation is fulfilled and before the first resolution is broken....

One Times One

After-Hours Sighting Report Subject: PrudenceLocation: Elementary School, Rotterdam, New YorkTime: 6:42 p.m., December (year withheld) A substitute teacher staying late to prepare lesson plans reported hearing a woman’s voice coming...

When darkness takes the land, the dolls stir. I...

There is a hush that falls when winter approaches—an ancient, heavy stillness that settles over the land like a velvet shroud. As daylight shortens and the cold creeps in through...

🕯️ A Warning as the Veil Grows Thin…

As the final leaves fall and the nights stretch longer, the veil between worlds weakens. The restless stir. The dolls—those cursed vessels of stories unfinished—feel it first. They shift in...