This issue's selection of original fiction features a darker tone. Whether fantastical or realistic, poignant or terrifying, these pieces will give you the shivers.
Alex Rose's Flowers in the Window illustrates a daughter's relationship with her mother in a tragic story of love and loss.
Beca's two-part series, Cloak, features two short stories that are intertwined as creatively as the threads in the cloak that is their subject. The first tells of the cloak's creation, while the second follows it on a journey that reveals its magical powers.
Optional Honesty, by Andromz, is an dramatic, intense sketch of a relationship and its related emotions.
Finally, in Dreamkeepers, by Therese, a girl travels into the Nightlands, a dream world that parallels reality, where she must face terrible nightmares to complete the Tithe that prevents them from harming the real world.