Welcome to Inklets, a series of short (and sometimes short-short) stories ranging from sci-fi to fantasy to lingering just on the edge of normal. One thing's for sure: you won't look at the world the same way again. The only surviving daughter of the Queen, she has always been the least beautiful. Until now. Now, she walks upon the edge of a knife. One day, she's going to fall. Today, the queen has sent for her. A chilling, short retelling of the Snow White fairy tale.

Originally published in the e-zine M-BRANE (#5) this is a reprint. After alien ships have invaded the human territories, destroying planets and sending the survivors fleeing to Earth, the Terran government orders the refugees to settle a new planet. One that has just been terraformed. Jeff Koenig, one of the few survivors from the Delious system, leads a team of scientists to the planet Dauphin to rebuild his life. They have 70 days until the ship returns with the first wave of colonists, but from Day 1 everything goes wrong. As the days count down, the colonists watch the skies and pray that the Hurluk won't find them, or Earth, before they are rescued.

The light of the city proper never reaches the under-city, past the jackal-headed guardians who keep the riffraff out. No one goes to the under-city willingly. No one except Rion, scion of the Tahtali house. If found, it might cost him his life. But if he stays away, it may cost him a whole lot more. A sweet romantic tale about the truest power in the world—love. 1200 words / Romantic Fantasy Welcome to Inklets, a series of short (and sometimes short-short) stories ranging from sci-fi to fantasy to lingering just on the edge of normal. One thing's for sure: you won't look at the world the same way again.

Welcome to a land where ignorance kills. The only way to survive is to walk the difficult road and stand against the dark. In The Wasporcist, Lily grows tired of everyone thinking she's mad. She knows the buzzing in her ears is more than her imagination, and calls in a Wasporcist. In Certified, Anna is a Raiser, able to raise from the dead anyone she doesn’t know. So what can she do when her best friend murders her boyfriend? The maliche are devouring Imber’s world, and in To Dust, the only tool she has to stop them is a magic box. Shame the only ones who can work the magic are the terrifying fae in their forest home. And speaking of terrifying magic, Natalia needs all the help she can get to fight the shadows of depression in The Day The Dog First Called . A Final Request For Mercy includes another canine, this time with a hard choice to make, while in The Chaos Shark, Ellie rescues a stray shark and saves her family. In Not Fantasy, Beth knows that the fairy world exists; her best friends are a pink tortoise and a talking pen, after all. Her creative writing professor strongly disagrees – perhaps too strongly, Beth thinks, when strange rifts appear in his office. Meanwhile, in Shoe, Jenna learns the hard way not to take home stray shoes from the side of the road. Finally, terminally-ill Adelaide finds an unexpected cure in the Pegasus myth come to life in Sea Foam and Blood . A collection of YA fantasy stories with just a touch of darkness.

The small town of a cosy, happy little place—at least until recently. Now, violence explodes in the streets, rumours whisper in the dark, and people hang in the square. And no one knows why. No one—except Tikva. But what can a seven-year-old do against a tidal wave of hatred? Or against the strange flame-haired woman who rode into town on her jet-black horse? A richly imagined tale that demonstrates the power of love—no matter what the age. 2300 words / historical fantasy

Zac, young, smart and adventures, roams the eucalypt bush and pine forest around his house to his heart's content. But not over the old train tracks. Never that far. Until one day, he feels something magical calling... He knows he should ignore it. But even he can't imagine the consequences for listening this time. A tragic story about the mistakes we can make while grieving, and how clinging to our grief can cheat us of everything we ever loved, or hoped or dreamed for. Contemporary Fantasy / 2000 words Welcome to Inklets, collectible stand-alone short stories ranging from sci-fi to fantasy to lingering just on the edge of normal. One thing's for you won't look at the world the same way again.

Changeling Orkney wakes in the arms of a beautiful woman with distant memories of rivers and burrows. He shrugs it all aside with the glorious discovery that he has proposed the woman, Lia - only he doesn't remember proposing at all, and the strange key in her study matches the ring on his finger. Will Orkney remember who he is before it's too late?

The markets crowd her senses, busy with sound and bustle and smells. Tundra needs to escape the sensory overload-she needs to run. That means sneaking away from her mother, of course. Tricky, but not impossible. And what she finds? Something that promises all her dreams come true-if she doesn't kill them out of misguided love first. A tale of freedom and a love of wild things that proves that if we love something, we must let it go. Fantasy / 2900 words Welcome to Inklets, collectible stand-alone short stories ranging from sci-fi to fantasy to lingering just on the edge of normal. One thing's for you won't look at the world the same way again.

Adela never imagined her life would end here: alone in a filthy spare room with a bucket for a toilet after days on days of torture. But she can wait a few days for her captors to tire of her—or she can save them the trouble. Not that they left anything for her to use for those purposes. Of course, a third alternative might exist. She knows the nephew of this house’s owner, after all… A dark, heart-twisting story that proves that even the darkest tales can have happy endings, for everyone who believes in hope—and unexpected allies.