Jared visits a brusque supernatural functionary who will arrange any act of revenge for a fee — and impulsively commits to something far worse than he intended before he can take it back.
Yasmin tends a beloved garden with one unsettling corner she has never been able to cultivate — a permanently shadowed patch of shifting shapes she has quietly learned to leave alone.
A time-stopping thief slips between the ticks of a frozen party, helping themselves to valuables and mischief before stepping back through a tear in time — never to see the chaos they leave behind.
A self-declared atheist spends a night on the couch of a friend's 'murder house', musing on how we confront the dark history of the places we inhabit — and wakes utterly untroubled.
Walking home through a rain-soaked alley, a person becomes aware of unseen footsteps perfectly matching their own — and must decide whether to flee or face whatever is there.
The townsfolk of a coastal village have long ignored the strange nightly walks of cantankerous Ol' Perwiddle — until one bold young thief follows him to the beach and witnesses something she cannot explain.
A professional body-swap operator rents their consciousness to a rich teenager for a night out, then must navigate 24 hours inside an unfamiliar body while hoping the customer returns theirs on time.
A soul-finder with a preternatural sixth sense describes their nightly work tracking down panicked, newly-dead souls and guiding them to the next stage of the afterlife.
Moments after a fatal car accident, a man finds himself in darkness where a quietly confident woman in impossible black approaches to guide him — with patient answers — to whatever comes next.
An anonymous painting appears in a hip gallery, and while the owner sees only a publicity coup, her friend is filled with creeping dread at the disturbing forms emerging from its impossible colours.