Teeth!

In the ethereal dreamscapes between sleeping and waking lurks a being of profound beauty and unfathomably cruelty, an eldritch consciousness older than the angels and far more terrifying.

Lurking by the bedside of every sleeping child, she takes their teeth and leaves in their place a single copper coin etched with chthonian letters - the currency of no earthly country.

To young Forsyth Ward, however, the fairy has gifted far more than a coin. She has bequeathed to him the seed of an obsession which will carry him from the haunted hallways of his ancestral home, to the far corners of the globe, and beyond the limits of his own sanity.

If the fairy cannot take his teeth, she will come for his soul.

Sebastian Gray is a Vancouver based writer of dark fantasy and horror fiction. Her stories have been featured in Subterrain, Planet Scumm, and on the NoSleep podcast. She is generally a much sweeter and more optimistic person than her fiction would indicate, although she does sometimes wonder if we weren't all swallowed by a carnivorous space god sometime in the nineties, and if 'reality' as we know it isn't the product of hallucinogens excreted by its unfathomably slow digestive system. Sebastian lives in a tower by a train station with her childhood best friend and a collection of stuffed animals.