In “Blue Bride,” Alicia Cay pulls us into a chilling Christmas Eve in Berwick-upon-Tweed, where a man searches for his missing brother—and finds instead a house steeped in vengeance, memory, and ghosts that refuse to stay buried. On the storm-lashed northern coast of England, Nathaniel Throne returns to the Wright Mansion—the last place his brother…
In “That Lake House Summer,” Deb Logan sends a restless teenager to her family’s old vacation house—where no electricity, no Wi-Fi, and one ghost girl turn a reluctant getaway into something unforgettable. Amanda expected boredom when her parents dragged her to a remote lake house with no signal. But a ghost girl hiding in a…
In “River of Renewal,” Kari Kilgore strands a woman overnight in the Oregon wilderness after she loses her keys in a freezing river. What begins as an inconvenience turns into a ghostly, healing encounter—with memories, spirits, and a horse that may not be of this world. Elizabeth’s solo hike in the Cascades was supposed to…
In “Scents Drifting on a Breeze,” Meyari McFarland introduces a museum worker with a crush, a mysterious funerary urn, and a ghost who’s been waiting for someone to listen. While sorting through artifacts in a small museum, a queer woman begins to suspect one of the displays—a forgotten funerary urn—might be haunted. As she deciphers…
In “Dance Hall Days,” Jamie Ferguson invites us into a retro-themed swing weekend that brushes against another time—and the ghosts that haven’t stopped dancing. Set in a quirky Oregon hotel filled with seashell lamps, tiki heads, and decades of charm, the story blends nostalgia, quiet romance, and a haunting that’s both playful and poignant. Part…
In “Whispers of the Whistle Stop,” Charles Eugene Anderson puts us aboard a ghost-haunted train on a presidential campaign trail—where lost souls and forgotten voters ride alongside ambition, grief, and reckoning. As a presidential hopeful rides the Liberty Express across the country, he begins to realize the train—and the campaign—aren’t what they seem. Haunted by…
In “They Stole My Love Last Night,” Alexandra J. Brandt brings us to the wind-lashed coast of the Isle of Skye, where a granddaughter joins her Granmarie on a bittersweet return to the White Skye Inn—a place where grief, music, and fae magic still linger. When a young woman returns to her family’s inn on…
In “Zero Proof,” a ghostly presence lingers in a sober queer bar in the Pacific Northwest—where chosen family and emotional reckoning collide in a space built for safety, but haunted by the past. When a queer couple rushes to protect their friend and her bar, they find themselves face-to-face with a haunting that’s both collective…
In “To Everything There is a Season,” P. D. Cacek opens the door to a once-familiar writing room—where memory, fiction, and a writer’s legacy blend into one final, ghostly conversation. When retired writer Rhea Wentworth sneaks back into her old office—now part of a museum—she discovers the past isn’t done with her. Her fictional characters…
“Honeysuckle and Blue,” by Karen L. Abrahamson, appears in Stolen by the Fae, the 6th volume in the anthology series A Procession of Faeries. Excerpt I should have paid more attention to what Posey said, but at the time I was just so relieved to find her. “There you are! I’ve been looking all over!…
