Chapters

The next day we met just outside of Old Town in a rarely used parking lot. The uneven asphalt now had cars parked haphazardly on it, seemingly with utter disregard for the faded lines. The group of people around the cars eyed us distrustfully as we approached. They were prepared for a fight. Some had […]

Graham listened as we filled him in on what we knew about Helen. That she had been Alek’s girlfriend and a Witch with the power to impersonate people and now she had gone missing, according to Alek. “It seems we need to have a chat with Alek,” he said. “His behaviour is getting more and

The gang climbed the stairs to the second floor of Henry’s barber shop. I spotted Graham’s wide frame out on the balcony, talking on the phone. Vanessa was lounging on the couch. The T.V. had something on but Vanessa was ignoring it in favor of her phone. “We’re back,” Terry said as he opened the

There’s a feeling I sometimes get when I forget that I’m choosing the lesser of two evils and I just think, I’ve made a terrible mistake. That thought played on repeat as I watched my silhouette fall in tandem with me in the reflection of the building I’d just leapt from. Silver walls and reflective

“What do you mean the jig is up? We just got in here,” I said, looking nervously out of the window. We were too high up for me to see the front entrance. I pulsed my sense of impending danger to Nell and immediately felt her respond in kind. “It could be nothing,” Terry said,

Nell and I showed up on main street in the middle of the work day. People walked briskly to their next appointment, clad in clothing unsuited for the hot midday sun that refracted off the reflective sides of the skyscrapers around us. I imagined the silvery spires as magnifying glasses looming over sweaty worker ants,

Soft blue lights rippled along the walls of the subway tunnel with curved lines of light and dark passing by. It gave the illusion that we were travelling under water, the light shining down through waves above us. In reality, it was an advertisement for the Sillwood aquarium, using projectors mounted in the tunnels. The

The door clicked shut. For a moment, as I looked down the barrel of a gun, the air felt as stale as that parkade where I’d encountered Squish. I fought the urge to move or Shape antlers. Who knew how itchy his trigger finger was? Vanessa, AJ, and Zola watched with alarm on their faces.

AJ in his red hoodie appeared on the balcony and he deftly climbed over the side and dropped on top of a dumpster and then to the ground. He made sure his hood was on and then stuffed his hands into his pockets and approached Nell and I. “Hey Peep,” I said. “This is Nell,

Alek’s accomplice stood in front of me. He was even wearing the same red sweater as when I caught him. Peep he’d called himself then, but it seemed his actual name was AJ. How much did he know? Had he been watching us struggle to survive in the Old Town? I bottled up the anger,