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…
A coastal mansion, a missing brother, and a legacy of violence—some doors are locked for a reason. In “Blue Bride,” Alicia Cay reimagines the classic Bluebeard fairy tale through a gothic, gender-flipped lens. When Nathaniel Throne arrives at a secluded coastal mansion searching for his newly married and now missing brother, he steps into a…
In Alicia Cay’s “Campbell County Cook-Off,” the oldest of three elderly witch sisters always wins the County Fair’s chili cook-off…but this year, things are going to be different! Rebecca and Leah steal their sister’s prize-winning recipe, whip up their own batch of chili, and head off to the competition ready to surprise their sister—and win…
