Inkprint Press

Six magical fantasy stories of transformation.

In Which Leaves Are Common Sense: No one tells you what to do when your hiking buddy has a sudden attack of lunar-cy and turns into a werewolf three days before the full moon. Annoying at any time, but on a hike with temperatures falling fast? Potentially fatal...

Tims Testing Day: Lunchtime at the Tims Compound, and the test that determines the direction of Tim's life for the rest of forever happens any minute now. Nerves jitter ? but you can't prepare for a test when all it does is see you for who you really are.

Familiars Need Enrichment Too: Sick to death of imprisonment in the castle, Bystar the ferret demands a reprieve. For enrichment, you know. Of course, there's such a thing as too much enrichment...

Had Kafka Been A Teenaged Girl: At four o'clock in the afternoon, Stella wakes up from her nap. As a ladybeetle. A Rottweiler-sized ladybeetle, still somehow in her lacy nightgown. How on earth can she explain this to her family ? preferably before they swat her?

A Plague On Both Your Colonies: Remm pines for the love of his life, Jillian, but separated by family feuding, they struggle to overcome the odds as the invading forces of the Helio march down upon the world...

To Walk One Path Alone: It's hard to tell directions in the Realm, but Saefda knows which way to go. Until something ? someone ? interrupts her path, waylaying her mission and transforming her allegiances in the fae world forever.

She plays in the meadow, the only place safe to cry about her mother's death. He finds her there, the wide-eyed boy, thrown by his horse, lost in the woods.

She guides him home, in the process finding the road out of her grief?and a friend.

But then she discovers his true identity. And everything changes.

A hopeful fairy tale retelling for people who still believe in the transformative power of love.

1100 words / fairy tale retelling

Claire knows where to find the people reported as 'missing under suspicious circumstances'. Unfortunately, telling the authorities means Claire risks taking the blame for the disappearances. Infuriating.

Instead, if Claire wants to see justice in the world, her future-telling tea speaks (metaphorically) crystal clear: Claire must rescue the people from the mysterious, other-worldly cave at the end of the street herself.

Of course, she never factored an other-worldly job offer into the equation...

A modern-day twist on Hades and Persephone, in a world where belief controls the outcome of... everything. For readers who love a no-nonsense protagonist doing what needs to be done.