Short stories tagged with Curses

Listing 8 stories.

In a fantasy world, as punishment for staring at a naked goddess, a king-mage is reborn as a mortal. Several other cursed demigods hatch a plan to be reborn as children of the naked goddess, who is in love with the king-mage.

Warrior Dossouye crosses paths with the cursed song-teller Gimmile, never to be the same again.

In Arizona at the turn of the twentieth century, three black women— a motel owner, her partner, and the motel’s cook— receive a threatening visit from the son of the motel owner's former partner. As the women and the cook’s son deal with the aftermath of the man’s visit, they confront the curses and bad juju that haunts the motel owner’s past and shapes their present.

A Trinidadian blogger gets turned into a bird through an elaborate obeah sorcery racket—orchestrated by her very own boyfriend.

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.

In the magical Ancient Chinese world of astrology, a candyman with a knack for communicating with the zodiac animal spirits must lift a curse on his friend's teahouse by settling a dispute concerning the emperor's prized missing tea between two animal spirits.

A restless night of hunger leads a man in Tokyo to tell his wife about a robbery he committed ten years ago at a bakery.