A STITCH IN TIME... IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF THE STORY.
Exquisite revenge and knitted doppelgängers; heartbreak and happy endings; unicorns, doomed dogs, and penitent frogs; steampunk fairies, conflicted stepmothers, and baseball—you’ll find it all here. Our literary alchemists weave a spell of fascination, drawing you deeper and deeper, tale by tale, until escape is impossible. But you’ll enjoy every minute of the plunge.
These sixteen deft and delightful stories involving witches, stitches, and bitches run the gamut from darkly disturbing to just plain fun. They will each take you out of the ordinary and into the world of magic, where older, weirder, or merely other rules apply. And just when you think things are all sewn up... some bitch may have a surprise for you.
Includes stories by Gabrielle Harbowy, Caren Gussoff, Kodiak Julian, and Christine Morgan, among others.
URGENT CARE
By Christine Morgan
Once upon a time, there was a little girl whose dumbass big brother got mixed up in an occult gang war.
The details, she’d pieced together over the years. Not that those details mattered much, not to her. Her memories of that other life, that early life, were vague… glimpses, flickers and impressions… half-remembered voices to go along with half-remembered faces and places.
They’d had a dog. Her room was yellow, so yellow and cheery and bright. Their house was big. It had a green yard lined with trees. Daddy wore a blue uniform and built things in the garage. Mommy read lots of books. The new baby cried a lot and was stinky.
And there was Mr. Deadface.
Except, there wasn’t Mr. Deadface. There had only been her dumbass big brother, who thought it would be funny to hide in little Laura’s closet, wearing the new gang mask he was so proud of, and creep out and scare her so bad that she almost wet the bed.
Their parents had been furious.
A few nights later, it hadn’t mattered anymore, because their parents were dead.
So was her dumbass big brother, and so was the stinky baby who cried a lot.
So was the family dog.
As far as the rest of the world knew, little Laura died right there with them.
