She beckoned him out of the woods with clawed fingers...

Fur bristled on Noah’s back as he watched Meri’s calm transformation...

Meri crossed arms in October chill. “I’m right where I need to be.”...

Meri’s slippers stopped on dewy grass. The old woman with long white hair listened at her backyard edge of the woods...

Her hand shook accepting a cup of tea. “Your werewolf stories, are a comfort to me.” ...

On a long October night, I found a wolf in a trap...

“Hey, Brak!” Ginda yelled to her fellow dwarf. “What’s worse than that band of goblins we fought?”...

I bought the Apple IIe in a storage unit auction, and “Goblin” was in its box of floppies...

“I vill suck your blood!”...

Prince Hambert kept his now loose pantaloons from falling. “You knew this would happen to me!”...

The two kids huddled around the Ghosts ‘n Goblins cabinet while Aaron slapped buttons...

He followed the goblin woman. “Aren’t these woods, cursed?”...

Marigold tidied her dress and laughed...

I laughed at the floating zero on the Japanese dark web...

“Are you impersonating an actual girl from Japan?”...

He drove up in a 1984 Toyota Starlet. “It’s a rare generation one Japanese export.”...

Yuna glanced at the glass of water in her paws...

“You’re a crazy American!” Naohiro shouts as waves buffet the small boat...

Jeremy gave Yuna a glass of water. “Are you okay?”...