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

A few missing persons cases may not mean much to a big police department, but to Haley Crescent, apprentice to private investigator, Detective Matthews? This is the chance of a lifetime. But what have these women run afoul of, and can Haley stay ahead of it?

For xenobiologist Maddie Spencer, the universe is a place of endless unknowns and unfathomable complexity. But those that push the frontier of scientific discovery can never be sure that they will not discover something that will forever change who and what they are.

A race of highly advanced aliens had decided that planet earth needs their guidance, the humans are way over their head and they surely destroy themselves, the solution? they need a queen, a perfect hybrid of both human and alien’s best attributes, but how perfect is she?

Stygia is a psychic parasite, able, but not willing, to form a symbiotic bond with her host. After all, why would you do that when submission is so much more delicious?

On the eve of the most important holiday of the year, the adults of the Corvus-9 colony finally share the secret history of their special day with the oldest teens.

An alien parasite latches onto a jogger in the lonely, uninhabited sector of the park’s trail. Can the girl escape before it’s too late?

This is a collection of often unrevised, first draft explorations of a concept I originally did in private on Discord - usually at the prompt of a friend and written in a single day. They will be messy unrefined reads and contain a wide variety of content. Hence, Lazy Anthology.