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The Tide Crossing

by Evangeline Vasquez

  • 7 Chapters
  • 77 Pages
  • 21,249 Words
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In the metaphysical border town of Suna, things slip across the veil every day—sometimes memories, sometimes people, sometimes cursed relics. Tani is a thief with a strict code: she only steals to return what was wrongfully taken across the crossing. When a high-stakes commission forces her to assemble a crew and break into the vault of the town's most dangerous syndicate boss, her path collides with Liko, a lethal border-warder whose job is to keep both worlds separate. Neither can afford to lose, but their escalating rivalry uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to tear the border wide open. To save her town, Tani must pull off the heist of a lifetime, trusting the one man paid to hunt her down.

The Ward of Debt

by Noel Morrow

  • 1 Chapter
  • 10 Pages
  • 2,768 Words
  • 1 Views

Nneoma works the night shift at Odimene General Hospital, a sprawling, hidden facility where the day staff files away injuries they cannot explain, and the night staff deals with the monsters who caused them. As a Scavenger, Nneoma can touch any broken object and see exactly what it used to be. She uses this skill to scrape together a living, hiding from a supernatural debt she inherited. But when Kameke—a lethal debt collector for the hidden ward bosses—comes to collect a price that cannot be paid in money, Nneoma is forced onto a deadly transport route through the hospital's deepest, most dangerous stations. Bound together by an undeniable mate-bond that neither wants, they must survive a journey where the medicine is worse than the sickness, and the debt demands a piece of a soul.

The Osorio Endowment

by Noel Morrow

  • 1 Chapter
  • 14 Pages
  • 3,903 Words
  • 3 Views

Beatriz Soriano is a university bookkeeper with a dangerous quirk: she is terrible at lying, but she can read people's souls and secrets like balanced ledgers. In the college town of Osorio, funded by a massive haunted endowment, ghosts and magic are currency. When Beatriz is unknowingly drafted into a supernatural proxy war, she finds herself physically and fundamentally mirrored against Valentin Montoya—a dangerously capable enforcer fighting for the opposition. As they exchange blows and uncover secrets in alternating turns, both realize they are fighting a war where neither side knows who actually pays their wages. To survive the unseen masters of the endowment, the human ledger and the rival proxy must calculate the true cost of their survival, risking the very souls they guard.

The Oath-Marked of Skarstad

by Evangeline Vasquez

  • 1 Chapter
  • 13 Pages
  • 3,802 Words
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Vigdis once swore an oath she could never keep, and the border town of Skarstad paid the price in blood. To the locals, Skarstad is just a quiet logging community where the fog rolls in thick from the North Sea. But Vigdis, a healer marked by a broken vow, knows the town sits on a metaphysical fault line, a crossing point between the mundane and something far older. When a wounded outsider washes up with impossible injuries—and carrying knowledge of a threat the town has blindly ignored for a generation—Vigdis must decide whether to bandage him and look away, or break the uneasy truce keeping her safe. Forced into an alliance with a protector whose kind she once betrayed, she must drag an unwilling town back into a war against the supernatural. The only problem is the pull between her and the outsider—a pull that demands a truth she is terrified to face, and a sacrifice she has already refused to make once before.