Category: fiction
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A summer release for a chilling fantasy…
Twin sisters. A remote island kingdom. A treacherous destiny.
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Which murder ballad are you?
I love a good murder ballad, especially the old classics. And by old classics, I mean any murder ballad where a woman does the murder. I just think those are more fun, especially if they have a sense of fantasy to them. When I first heard Old Blind Dogs’ version of The Cruel Sister, where…
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Demon Lover: Part Four
Elise existed in the most delectable state of shame, and had only grown more succulent by the day. She would taste so pretty, writhing in pain within my grasp. And now she was out of my reach, at a hospital somewhere, from what I could gather from the man’s murky thoughts as he shuffled through…
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Demon Lover: Part Three
She wasn’t the type to coddle living things. Most people like to have something living nearby — a plant, a fish, a cat, another human. I’d never seen another living being in her space. It was just her and me.
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Demon Lover: Part Two
Some people beg for demons. They fall easily, writhing with regret. Even in those who summon demons, attempting to bind us with foul symbols of the false god, there is a frisson of fear. Unbelievers are as easily haunted as the devout. Shame is the only requirement. We always have options, if we’re willing to…
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Demon Lover: Part One
It takes a certain type of carelessness to talk to a demon. Elise had that in spades.
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Last week’s excerpt
This is better, she thought. I’d rather die fighting anyway. The demon stepped toward her, and she plunged the shard of wood into his heart.
K. D. Hume 