(this turned out to be set in the 20s because i’ve been so wrapped up in an incoming history test so i took inspiration from that 😭 i also added something similar to a crossroads demon from supernatural, so enjoy ig!)

Cindy, Susan, and Gordon are my absolute top priority. Always has been. Even when my husband, William, left us for the war a few years back, leaving us nothing but a couple of...

For years Kehlani had worked in the same little knick knack shop. Time passed at a slow crawl most days.

The shop used to be much busier. Hell the island used to be much busier. Ever since the economic crisis people had stopped traveling, and that meant little tourist towns suffered. Now the once lively little bay city was quiet.

Every once in a while a local would wonder into the shop to see i...

‘It holds time well. And it’s mechanical, so you’ll never have to worry about the power.’ James was a smart man, well-spoken and with an energy for every day.

‘I’m not sure about clocks.’

‘Well, what about this selection of treasures and trinkets?’ He gestured over a table of ornaments. His shop was off the beaten track; somewhere between the railway and the river, behind the orphanage, in front...

I sit behind the counter, flicking through the latest book my boss has found and decided to sell. He doesn’t let me use my phone, and I hate the feeling of staring at people until they buy something.

So, I flick.

With the turn of the next page, a young man walks by. His curls bounce with every step and cover his eyes as he looks down at what’s below the counter.

It’s see through, so sometimes it ...

As a young woman, I wanted to enter the world of antiques. In this as in many specialisms, a practitioner gains success through hard work and luck. I had plenty of the former and, up to now, none of the latter.

By the age of twenty, I had served my apprenticeship, if you will, at dealers first in Margate, then in London. But in five short years, my mother became an invalid, and being the only chi...

"So, he just came in here and bought those dolls. That's it? He had no hesitation. Like he legit came in here with the intention of buying them?" Janina asked. She couldn't believe the words that were coming out of her mouth.

Margie nodded, "Yep. He came in, grabbed a cart, and headed straight for them. He picked each one up...carefully, I might add, and put all three in the cart, then came up an...

This cold rainy morning Bernard had already welcomed three new customers to the secondhand shop. The drizzle’s soft shush above cluttered attics was more lure than most treasure hunters and gatherers could resist. Such weather nearly always guaranteed he would meet new visitors before the clouds retreated.

At precisely 11 am, the door clanged open again and a small elderly woman shuffled in, clu...

Working

Lurking

Searching

Finding

Winding

Lying

Trying

Minding

Wondering

Dreaming

Feeling

Reeling

Stealing

Hoping

Coping

Selling

Telling

Overwhelming

Today

Not may

To play

Too cold

Very old

Now sold

Tessa🦋...

[Dark Humour]

Edison awoke to a cluster of iron stalactites hanging over the length of his body. Instead of feeling alarm, he felt a vague disappointment and an intrusive yearning for one of the spikes above to pierce him straight through the heart.

'Great,' he thought dully. 'Time to get back to work.'

Sighing heavily, Edison hauled himself up from the dusty floor that he used as a bed for his...

I didn’t know what to think of it when it arrived. It was a queer piece, bizarre. Nothing like anything I’d seen, and we get a lot of strange things in this curiosity shop. It’s not like we haven’t received messages in a bottle before, but this one felt different. It felt special.

He arrived just after midday and asked for the piece. I had no clue how he knew we had it, but something about him f...