A fantastical, mystical story about the here and in between, about what's present and desired, perception and reality.

Jen Schneider is an educator who lives, writes, and works in small spaces throughout Pennsylvania. She is a Best of the Net nominee, with stories, poems, and essays published in a wide variety of literary and scholarly journals. She is the author of Invisible Ink (pre-order at Toho Pub), On Daily Puzzles: (Un)locking Invisibility (forthcoming, Moonstone Press), and Blindfolds, Bruises, and Breakups (forthcoming, Atmosphere Press). 

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A story that explores the mirror image, what is here and there and in between.

Richard M. Ankers is the English author of The Eternals dark fantasy series. Richard has featured in Expanded Field Journal, Love Letters To Poe, After The Pause and feels privileged to have appeared in many more. Richard lives to write. 
Website: richardankers.com
Twitter: @Richard_Ankers

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Two Native American stories from the First People of America and Canada website. These stories highlight themes found in stories from cultures around the world, modern and ancient.

You can find these stories and so many more at the website: https://www.firstpeople.us

The Kaidankai Podcast features original short fiction exploring horror, fantasy, science fiction, and the strange.

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A story inspired by the Seminole Tribe culture, myths, and legends. A young Seminole girl living in the Everglades must face a host of challenges, not the least of which is an old witch who stole her brother.

Linda Sparks is an author and poet, published 19 books and published in numerous anthologies. Served as Editor for Valkyrie Magazine. My favorite genres are horror and science fiction. Some of my titles: The Goblin Hour, The Scent of Ghosts and Magic, The Ghosts of Space, and The Hour of the Witch will soon be published. Author page: Linda Sparks Author Facebook. Amazon author page: https://www:amazon.com/Linda-Sparks/e/B06XYTYPXY.

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A story based on the myths and gods of the Inuit people. A father must travel to the end of the Earth to find a way to ave his dying daughter. Will the gods help him? What price must he pay?

Donald Guadagni is an international educator, author, and writer currently teaching and conducting research in Beijing China. His publication work includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, prose, academic, photography and his artwork. Former iterations, military, law enforcement, prisons, engineering, and wayward son. https://www.facebook.com/donald.guadagni.98/          twitter   @GuadagniDonald

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Two tales from native cultures. Under a Pale Moon is about the kappa, a mythical, monstrous creature of Japan and Mulliwonk, an indigenous tale from the Nurrindjeri culture. Both creatures live in water and terrify unsuspecting humans.

Mark Meyer is a septuagenarian artist, writer, & former research biologist who resides in the middle of a lake in Washington State. He enjoys a great fondness for dogs, guitars, & scotch. His artwork & poetry have somehow managed to get around here and there.

Tim Law submitted the poem The Mulliwonk. Timothy Law is a writer of fantasy, horror, detective and general fiction from a little town in Southern Australia called Murray Bridge. Currently working at the Murray Bridge Library in the role of Library Manager he has dreamed since high school of becoming a fulltime author. His stories can be found at http://somecallmetimmy.blogspot.com.au/ and on other platforms.

Read by Andi Brooks, a Tokyo resident and Bella Lugosi biographer.

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The re-telling of a famous Japanese folktale about a couple who help an injured bird and get their just desserts.

Linda Gould is the editor of White Enso, the online journal featuring creative work inspired by Japan, and the host of hyakumonogatari kaidankai. She lives in Japan and is an on-again, off-again writer of short stories.

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The Kaidankai Podcast features original short fiction exploring horror, fantasy, science fiction, and the strange.

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Based on famous hauntings in Philadelphia, Jen Schneider created modern prose that follows the thread connecting worlds and time, life and death.

Jen Schneider is an educator who lives, writes, and works in small spaces throughout Pennsylvania. She is a Best of the Net nominee, with stories, poems, and essays published in a wide variety of literary and scholarly journals. She is the author of Invisible Ink (pre-order at Toho Pub), On Daily Puzzles: (Un)locking Invisibility (forthcoming, Moonstone Press), and Blindfolds, Bruises, and Breakups (forthcoming, Atmosphere Press). 

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A local story where a ghost with amorous interest in the man of the house drives a wedge in a marriage. Can the wife get the upper hand?

Margaret Pearce was I  was a sickly child and an omnivorous reader which made for a harmonious and pleasant substitute for most of the schools she was supposed to attend. Her love of fantasy started at seven years of age when all magazines with lurid covers kept getting snatched away.
She took to writing instead of drink when raising children, who were embarrassed when she became a published author. She completed an Arts Degree at Monash University as a mature age student, and has published children's and teenage novels in print and ebooks as listed on Amazon, Book Depository, Kindle,  writers-exchange.com
Her last book, NOT MENTIONING ANY NAMES, was published by Ginninderra Press.She can be found on the internet as margaretpearce .

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Plenty of people in Baraboo, Wisconsin, claim to have seen the phantom hitchhiker, but few have met it. It's better if you don't. The local story is told by Dawn DeBraal.

Dawn DeBraal lives in rural Wisconsin with her husband Red, two rescue dogs, and a stray cat. Dawn has published over 400 stories in many online magazines and anthologies, including Spillwords, Potato Soup Journal, Zimbell House Publishing, Black Hare Press, Clarendon House, Blood Song Books, Cafelit, Reanimated Writers, The World of Myth, Dastaan World, Vamp Cat, Runcible Spoon, Siren’s Call, Setu Magazine, Kandisha Press, Terror House Magazine, D & T Publishing, Sammie Sands, Iron Horse Publishing, Impspired Magazine, Black Ink Fiction and many others. She was the Falling Star Magazine’s 2019 Pushcart nominee.
https://linktr.ee/dawndebraal
https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-DeBraal/e/B07STL8DLX 
https://www.facebook.com/All-The-Clever-Names-Were-Taken-114783950248991 

Read by Ghiselle Camacho, Read by Ghiselle Camacho, a wannabe Rennaisance woman based in Japan.

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