Short stories tagged with Rituals
Listing 11 stories.
When it's her turn to give her body over to the blood bees, a girl makes a different decision.
In a society where Jesus clones are commonplace, a group of Jesus clones try to awaken their holy powers by attempting to kill a teenage girl and raise her from the dead.
A spirit, once stranded on earth, finally returns to his realm–but ponders the rightness of his choice.
Just as a teenage human boy gets used to living in a small town run by vampires, his vampire-hating father tries to drag him into an extreme plan involving even more supernatural forces.
In the 1800s, a team of Native American men travel by horse to Gavelston Bay, Texas, and form a connection with another tribe along the way. However, the joy of discovery is cut short by immense tragedy.
In 19th century Charleston, South Carolina, a middle aged Black woman uses her family tea to revive Black corpses. One night, she makes a shocking discovery about the man who's kept the bodies hidden.
In a post-apocalyptic America, two brothers travel across the country to find a woman who can help save one of them from a terrifying magical fate.
A cursed man and others like him struggle to be accepted by their village, but as they maneuver to gain their community's favor, they discover something important about their condition which shifts their perspectives.
A leech-like, jellyfish-like animal that consumes grief is used for various medicinal purposes, but rituals surrounding these animals have been corrupted in recent years, resulting in these animals' impending extinction.
Two brothers wander into the woods near their late parents' house and discover a house that should not be there, inhabited by long-haired women with sinister intentions.