Rotten: A Bite-Sized Halloween Treat

Rotten: A Bite-Sized Halloween Treat

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Daughters of Darkness

Women are strong, intuitive, and deeply powerful: mothers, daughters, sisters, friends, the ones who carry others and still manage to carry themselves. But strength like that doesn’t go unnoticed. There are forces that test it, and try to change it into something unrecognizable. ...  Show more

Suburban Hellscape

Somewhere, in a neighborhood that seems perfect, the air is too still, the windows too reflective, and the smiles a little too wide. Step outside, and you might not recognize what waits for you; step outside into the hellscape called suburbia, and you might not make it back into ...  Show more

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