Twenty-four previously published speculative fiction stories and poems by M.X. Kelly for your reading enjoyment.

• A young girl writes alphabetical epistolary accounts of her slow decline from an alien virus...
• A shapeshifting, serial killer alien spider lands on Earth to sample the best-flavored humans...
• At the top of a church belfry, an ancient evil is awakening...
• In his near-death state, a mob henchman meets an angelic little girl who may be offering him a chance to escape hell...
• A mermaid escapes the spell of the evil wizard who turned her human and heads back to the sea...
• A young liquor store salesman has a very bad day...
• The smartphones of the future are stolen tech from the past...
• A dialogue between a forest blackbird and a spoiled king's chef unravels and reveals an old English nursery rhyme...