When they reached her house, Grant asked if she was sure she wanted to go in and offered to just grab some things for her while she waited in the car. She wasn’t keen on having some guy rummaging...
2024-08-21 17:04:11 +0000 UTC
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After the moment passed, Morrigan couldn’t help but feel the awkwardness creeping back in. She’d been at odds with her mom her whole life, so she supposed she couldn’t expect things to change...
2024-08-19 19:02:16 +0000 UTC
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“Come over here, kid, let me look at you,” her mom said.
Morrigan forced a smile and approached slowly. She flinched when her mom took her hand and looked up at her. Morrigan focused on m...
2024-08-17 19:40:14 +0000 UTC
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Morrigan ended up catching up on some of her lost sleep from the night before until a sudden tapping on the door jerked her awake. “Morrigan, are you in there?”
Morrigan sat up, feeling e...
2024-08-15 17:34:05 +0000 UTC
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Morrigan stared at Pepper, her brow furrowing. “Your… sister? You’ve seen her spirit?”
Pepper nodded silently, her expression somber.
Morrigan hesitated before asking, “How lo...
2024-08-12 17:31:41 +0000 UTC
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Morrigan carefully navigated downstairs, favoring her injured ankle with each step. When she and Pepper arrived in the dining room, they found Jenna and Tyler setting the table with plates and silv...
2024-08-09 18:12:59 +0000 UTC
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“Okay! Wake up, girls!” Sarah called from down the hall. Morrigan could hear her knocking on each door as she went from one room to the next. “Rise and shine! Breakfast in an hour!”
M...
2024-08-07 16:15:41 +0000 UTC
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Freeing her foot was much easier once there were two people with proper leverage to lift the shelf from. There was a deep gash in her ankle, and the woman, whom Morrigan had yet to catch the name o...
2024-08-05 18:34:13 +0000 UTC
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Morrigan cracked the door open lightly and strained her hearing to pick up any movement. Down the hall, she could hear the distinct sound of a T.V., which may have explained why the lady seemed so ...
2024-08-02 20:12:09 +0000 UTC
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Morrigan thought she was back at the hospital, except the hallways stretched impossibly long. Or rather, hallway—singular—as there were no turns, just an endless corridor with doors on either s...
2024-07-31 10:36:56 +0000 UTC
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Morrigan stared out the window of the police car. The sky was turning dark blue outside, and street lamps were already turning on. She felt like she had been stuck in that police station for far lo...
2024-07-29 14:32:56 +0000 UTC
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Morrigan sat alone in the stark, dimly lit room at the police station. The only furniture was a metal table and two uncomfortable chairs. The cuffs had been removed, but her wrists and shoulders st...
2024-07-26 20:16:24 +0000 UTC
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“Okay, okay, I won’t run again. Let me go,” Morrigan complained as he led her around the outside of the hospital and towards the front.
“Sorry, can’t do that.”
“But I didn...
2024-07-24 19:02:46 +0000 UTC
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(Quick announcement- I'm changing to a Monday / Wednesday / Friday posting schedule.
That's all!
As always, thank you for your support. It means more than you know!
Enjoy the new c...
2024-07-22 14:07:41 +0000 UTC
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“Okay, cup your hands,” Hilda said as she pinched a few strands of the brown hair and started rolling it between her fingers until it balled up. Morrigan watched, almost hypnotized by the proce...
2024-07-19 11:11:19 +0000 UTC
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Morrigan felt sick as she paced back and forth, going from the kitchen to the book-cluttered living room.
Why is this happening?!
She pulled out her phone and, for probab...
2024-07-18 20:19:03 +0000 UTC
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The scars around her eyes and mouth made it obvious who this other reaper was. If that wasn’t enough, ‘Master’ could only be referring to Death himself. This was the girl from the diary—Ali...
2024-07-17 13:32:23 +0000 UTC
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Russel sprinted as fast as he could, his heavy boots silent as they slammed against the ground. The strangeness of it all bewildered him. He didn’t feel his breath catching or his muscles straini...
2024-07-12 11:18:37 +0000 UTC
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Morrigan scanned the blotchy black lettering as she sat on the bus.
John McCarthy, age 32, 2475 Airport Road, bullet wound, 10:35am.
Russel De’Grasse, age 24, 2360 Ai...
2024-07-11 15:29:09 +0000 UTC
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“You expect me to just lie down and take this!” the tattooed spirit yelled at Morrigan. “I have rights, you know! You can’t just come over here with your ‘Oooo, I’m here to guide yo...
2024-07-10 20:28:01 +0000 UTC
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It was important to have friends. Though, Trish knew better than anyone that friends could only be as trustworthy as they were mutually valuable to each other. As for her new friend, clearly, she w...
2024-07-04 19:19:09 +0000 UTC
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By the time they retired for the night, Morrigan had so little energy she wasn’t even able to freak out about sleeping next to Emma. Though, she kept her back facing away from her since her hoodi...
2024-07-03 18:35:12 +0000 UTC
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Morrigan awoke with a start, her eyes snapping open to the sight of a crackling fire. For a moment, she lay still, disoriented. She wasn’t sure where she was, so she stared at the fire, mesmerize...
2024-06-29 16:04:59 +0000 UTC
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Emma’s eyes widened in horror as she saw the monstrous arm forming from Morrigan’s back. She hesitated, but the sight of her friend in distress pushed her forward. “Morrigan! Hang on, I'm com...
2024-06-27 19:27:29 +0000 UTC
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“Oh my god, thank you!” Morrigan gasped, realizing that if Hilda hadn’t intervened, she would have been swallowed whole by the monster.
“Don’t… thank me yet,” Hilda huffe...
2024-06-26 12:00:50 +0000 UTC
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A flurry of tendrils erupted from Noir’s body, slicing the air like whips as they lashed at the demon. Tufts of fur and blood were ripped away, but it did nothing to halt the demon's charge....
2024-06-22 16:24:07 +0000 UTC
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Hilda summoned her staff as she sprinted downhill through the forest, weaving between trees and leaping over obstacles. Morrigan, with her scythe at the ready, kept pace as best she could, while Em...
2024-06-20 19:42:54 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 64
Somewhere within the 24 hours between Hilda’s announcement of showing them how to make moonwater and the next full moon, the little demonstration turned into a full-blown camping...
2024-06-19 13:54:29 +0000 UTC
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Emma made iced tea for everyone, then they migrated to the living room. Morrigan hadn’t thought she’d need permission from Death before asking for Hilda’s assistance, but Noir seemed to think...
2024-06-14 18:56:47 +0000 UTC
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Morrigan paced back and forth in her room as she vented everything. Emma sat cross-legged on the bed, resting her chin in her hand, attempting to process Morrigan’s frantic tirade.
“So, n...
2024-06-13 16:36:20 +0000 UTC
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