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#Spooktober2020 Day 5: Sigil

On day five after my parents took away my depression medication, I sat in class staring listlessly. Everything my teacher said about the lesson slammed against the wall in my brain blocking out my will. I heard none of it. Cared even less. Upon the inside of my arm, I copied out fragments of sigils … Continue reading #Spooktober2020 Day 5: Sigil →

S.G. Baker Stories Leave a comment October 5, 2020January 8, 2022

#Spooktober2020 Day 4: Occult

I got a summer job working in an occult supply store. There, I met the scariest person of my life: myself. "I need wasp stingers," I told myself. My face stared dead-eyed from beneath the hood of my favorite jacket. As I handed the packet across the counter to myself, I said, "What happened to … Continue reading #Spooktober2020 Day 4: Occult →

S.G. Baker Stories Leave a comment October 4, 2020January 8, 2022

#Spooktober2020 Day 3: Lantern

You set up your camp on the place where I died. All that snow stomping, tent rustling, stakes hammering, cookpot rattling woke me. You woke me up. You brought light. The sun set fast behind the cold mountains, so when you wanted to keep reading in your heated tent, you lit your fancy, vintage looking … Continue reading #Spooktober2020 Day 3: Lantern →

S.G. Baker Stories Leave a comment October 3, 2020January 8, 2022

#Spooktober2020 Day 2: Asylum

"Please, you have to help us! They're coming!" My screams made the humans encircling us flinch. Several projectile weapons rose, prodding me back toward the middle and our stolen space cruiser. They shrank away, glancing up at the red, boiling clouds above. Clasping three-fingered hands together, I hit my knees in the green grass. "Please..." … Continue reading #Spooktober2020 Day 2: Asylum →

S.G. Baker Stories Leave a comment October 2, 2020January 8, 2022

#Spooktober2020 Day 1: Illusion

In the corner of my vision, the notification light on my phone blinked blue. Again. Again again again. Never when I looked right at it. Just in my peripheral. Still, I picked the phone up. Swiped the screen open. No app notifications. No one to communicate with me. Not even a dumb automated political message. … Continue reading #Spooktober2020 Day 1: Illusion →

S.G. Baker Stories Leave a comment October 1, 2020January 8, 2022

S.G. Baker is a writer and editor of fiction who penned the Hopeful Wanderer web series, forthcoming as a novel-in-stories. She has authored climate fiction, fantasy, and horror shorts in Freelancer, The Legacy, Little Blue Marble: Warmer Worlds, With Words We Weave: Hope, and Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers, Vol. 2. Her newest short story, “Well Being,” will be released in Beneath the Bluebonnets: Tales of Terror by Texas Women in 2026. Find out more at summergbaker.com !

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