King’s Suit
You need fine clothes to make the man.
With Love, Aunt Mercedes
Why would Jocelyn’s favorite aunt and uncle send her a doll from Italy?
Mona Luna
If you never met her, you’d think she was a real nice lady, yeah. Good with kids, never kicked no dog. Never sang a hymn out of tune. On Tuesdays and Thursdays she works down at the shelter, handing out socks and toothbrushes.
I go barefoot in my boots rather than take a single thing from Mona Luna.
Mama’s Hand of Glory
A woman has a planchette tattooed onto her hand before she dies, believing that it will permit her to talk to her daughter from the beyond. When the daughter discovers the hand defiled, something having taken a bite out of it, she must deal with the consequences.
Faerie Lanterns
Joey’s parents just built a new house in a pristine forest. On his first night in his new bedroom, Joey wakes up from a nightmare and is lured into the dark woods by a nature spirit posing as his mother.
Satan’s Ridge
In this true story, Cody and his best friend Kyle spend their final summer before adulthood finding the secret shame of their tiny town in rural Maine—Satan’s Ridge, a haunted site purposely removed from the map. Sometimes forbidden places are forbidden for a reason.
GASHADOKURO
An apocalyptic poem.
Feast Your Eyes
Two sacrificial lambs.
Bondye Bon
Heloise’s mother has a secret locked away.
MANGOES
The poem depicts the plight of Medieval villagers who have fallen prey to witches. They visited the hamlet guised as damsels and allured them into consuming the mangoes they had brought as an offering. The rural settlers were unaware of the fact that while they were enjoying this new delicacy, their beating hearts were growing as crops in the witches’ lair.