Court-appointed therapy doesn’t go quite the way Rapunzel thought it would.
Category Archive: Short Stories
Short stories and juicy tidbits from Ruthanne Reid and the universe of AMONG THE MYTHOS.
I done worse things than follow some half-human kid toward the beginning of a new world.
The soul had been flayed, shredded into suffering ribbons, and Hades had to think carefully about how to handle it right.
Just a story about magic, cereal boxes, and long-lost Mesoamerica gods. No, who am I kidding? It’s about a badass convenience store manager with a taser.
A pretty lady always knows how to smile. (Flash fiction: 240 words)
Flappers. Vampires. A thug who stole a necklace and a speak-easy with Jazz to die for. A short, cute story set in New York City in the 1920s. (No spoilers. A side-story from the epic dark fantasy novel, NOTTE.)
I can see the life leave you.
You died for nothing.
He got away with it all. In the end, it was the damned cows that caught him.
Now, he knew what this place held. Monsters, magic leaves, things all meant to stop him and eat him and stop him and hurt him, and he wouldn’t be fooled again.
The moths came when you left. (Flash Fiction)