A trance a day keeps the thoughts away! One short story for every day this month, not using any prompt lists.

Sightless village girl Ysalia is sent to the wicked Medusa, Ophidia, as a sacrifice. It’s such a shame that the humans have yet to figure out how exactly the Gorgon turns her victims into lifeless stone.

A noble knight of a galactic empire has been marked for corruption by a hidden faction.

A woman details the private struggle she’s been fighting against the thoughts invading her head… a struggle she’s definitely losing.

A lone traveler just can’t help but keep coming back to the sweet, welcoming embrace of one particular alraune…but this time, she has a special surprise for him lurking within the brush.

Following a rough breakup, a transgender virgin goes to a bar and a conversation with a stranger takes him way further than he ever thought he’d go.

Ember finds herself captured by the Mayerford Mining Company, beginning her transformation from bright young woman to obedient corporate drone.

In order to finish her doctoral thesis on a certain mysterious plant, Sofia Bezzina needs help. In order to get closer to her, Professor Ben Artom is willing to provide it.

Clover’s friend Annika recommends a new bar and a new drink, and even though the place is a bit of a dive the drink turns out to be life-changing.

How does a criminal drug dealer react when he catches a newly legal 18 yo girl in his 21 and over club? Well, not very nice…

Reluctant superhero Azure relives one of her first cases in a parallel universe where she’s the only one with powers. But her unspoken assumptions about the way it turned out last time could prove deadly.

A failure to gather friends together for a tabletop session leaves a young man alone with their comely host for the holidays. Pushing through uncertainty of her intentions, he decides to stay for a while. But, say, what’s in this drink…?

A cop-in-training confronts her professor about the lies she’s fed to her students. But then those lies turn to sweet, honeyed praise, and she finds herself unsure of what to do…

Jacques comes in to check on his latest victim to see how she’s progressing. There is a slight hitch, but he’s an ingenious sort of guy.

A tooth fairy uses a hypnotic magic wand and a tube of mind-controlling toothpaste to help retrain a young woman back into proper oral hygiene.

Or: That time I slipped my highschool bully the potion equivalent of a roofie Or: Yet another urban fantasy E2L bully to lesbian story

After returning from a semester abroad in St. Petersburg, Maria Miller is recruited by a Russian sleeper cell. When she begins to get cold feet, she learns the hard way that she isn’t allowed to have second thoughts—or, as it turns out, any thoughts at all.

The Harvest Moon hangs over Weirhaven College for Witches as students begin to mysteriously disappear. Can Guinevere Grey and friends get to the bottom of these disappearances before they become victims themselves?

Maddy agrees to try her roommate’s new confection, and discovers that even though she doesn’t like the taste there’s still something kind of addictive about it.

In the wake of the Grand Concordance, Azure is flung into another reality and discovers first-hand that there are far worse places than the universe she knows.