In the early-twentieth-century South, a black teenager discovers she has a magical power. But when race and gender-related violence violate her existence, she must decide whether to use her power to protect the people she loves or to harm the people who hate.

A teenage girl is the apprentice to a mysterious magician who fails to reveal the sinister lifeforce behind their magic.

A traumatized veteran with destructive magical powers struggles to escape the weight of her past crimes—but finds herself pulled in once more.

A young girl knows something isn't right when her sister comes home from boarding school pregnant, with a strange husband. When her parents are found dead a few days later, she immediately suspects her brother-in-law and turns to the faerie tree in her front yard for help--but the faeries strike a tough bargain.

A two-bit magician seduces a mother who has recently lost her young son in a motorcycle incident. Later, he finds himself back at the gravesite and uses the little magic he actually has inherited from his truly magical father to bring her son back to life.

A young girl has a frightening power that brings doom to everyone near her, but she finds kindred spirits in owls.

A young boy uses his mystical but threatening power for good when the girl next door needs his help.

Before she can become a full sorceress, a young and talented female magician must pass her sorceress trials and overcome the dangers of Pride, Stagnation, Pain, and Panic.

A young woman has been mocked and shunned by her family for her entire life, never taken seriously as a contender for inheriting her grandmother's magical powers — so, as her grandmother's death approaches, the young woman decides to prove to herself once and for all just how much her family has underestimated her.

An unnamed narrator uses their own flesh and blood to cast evil spells and curses onto those who stand in their way. An unnamed narrator recounts the way they are able to cast spells by tearing off and consuming their own flesh and blood, and explains what has happened to those who have crossed them.