"Mom, do you know where my math book is?" Jared's voice echoed through the hallway, cutting through the muffled sounds of a TV show playing in the living room. Rebecca looked up from her phone, her eyes darting around the kitchen. "Did you check the study?" she called back, hoping he wouldn't notice the bead of sweat forming on her forehead. "Already did," he replied, the thud of his sneakers growing closer. Rebecca's hea...

It was the day before Halloween, and a peculiar chill had settled into the air, hinting at the mischief and mystery that lay just around the corner. Rebecca, a mother with a penchant for the unexplained, had picked up whispers of an authentic fortune teller who had set up shop in a dimly lit corner of the town square. Her girlfriend swore by the woman's ability to commune with the dead, and Rebecca's curiosity had been pi...