A traveller takes shelter at a roadside inn and hears the innkeeper's account of a duke, his murdered brother, and the enormous cook who arrived uninvited at the castle.

What was served at the duke's feast, and what was left behind in the kitchen afterward, is a story the locals have carried for generations. Based on the #vss365 flash piompt "Divine."

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A girl drinks the beastings, the first milk that should have been given back to the earth. Soon the butter will not churn, the milk turns red, and a calf is found dead. But in a small Irish community, superstition is only the beginning of Bridget O’Hara’s punishment.

The Returned is an occasional series of tales, rejected by publishers and platforms and left to rest by the author. Discover more at⁠⁠ edvane.world

A man arrives in 1890s Seattle with rain on his back and nothing to lose. People begin to vanish from the Elliott House, leaving their boots by the bed and their coats on the hook. The official record of the Great Fire of 1889 says nobody died. The official record is wrong.