Curses, Inc.

Curses, Inc. A boy backs out of a date he had with a girl, not wanting to spend money for clothes for himself and a present. He'd rather use the money for buying video games. He ends up trying to put a curse on the girl, but finds out the meaning of the term “first come, first served.”

Skin Deep: Ardda lives outside of a village. She has the ability to cast spells. She's sixteen and unfortunately is considered to be unattractive. She rescues a prince who has been shot (with arrows) and nurses him back to health, only to have him turn away from her when he sees what she really looks like. The prince (might eventually) learn not to judge from appearances only.

Past Sunset: Another olden village, this time with warnings about avoiding a pale-looking woman. Marianne is the name of the main female character in the story. No one knows what will happen if the ghost (everyone assumes it's a ghost) catches someone.

One night a neighbor's child desperately needs medicine. Marianne's brother goes to get the medicine but, coming back, he encounters the lady and finds out what happens when one meets her.

To Converse with the Dumb Beasts: A man named Kendric saves a woman running from a bear. The woman gives him an acorn that will allow him to understand what animals are saying. Be careful what you wish for.

Boy Witch: Clarence's mother is a good witch. His mother has to go away for a bit and a girl shows up needing a witch. Clarence tells her he is one even though he's not, really. She needs him to fix her hair up since her brother cut it and messed it up.

What happens next is really funny, a complete comedy of errors.

Lost Soul: A guy in a forest sees a beautiful female. He falls in love with her and turns his back on his farm and the girl he was promised to; instead, he wants to spend all his time with the girl in the forest. This seems to be a story that needed fleshing out a little, in my opinion, ans is the weakest in the book so far.

Remember Me: A woman has done something to a guy and he has total amnesia. He finds that experiences can make a person better, even if they don't know what they were like before.

Witch-hunt: Lyssa's parents are taken by witch-hunters. The shock, though, comes when we find out just when this is all taking place, and the name of the “Satanic” book that the witch-hunter general wants to destroy.

Cypress Swamp Granny: Marietta is a girl in post-Civil War New Orleans. She's 17, and complaining that there are no boys in the area worth marrying. Ceecee is a younger black girl that is working for her parents and she takes Marietta to see her grandmother who knows spells.

Mariette decides the guy she wants is the one who is engaged to her cousin and she trades a year of her life to Orilla for the proper magic.

She wants the attention of one particular guy, gets it, and finds she doesn't want it. She then wants some physical alterations made in her appearance. She then wants more money. She's never satisfied with what she has.

And she pays the price.

The Witch's Son: 1776. Abigail Brewster is a witch and tries to bring her 19-year-old son back from the dead on the first anniversary of her death. She succeeds only for a shot time, and finds out what she had been told about his death was not true.

It wasn't until 1789 that she was actually able to bring him back from the dead physically and have him remain there. There's also reference made to how badly the independence movement in the colonies split apart former friends. Tessa remembers how it was and how Hugh was murdered by her father and his friends.

Abigail tells her son that, unless he kills the one remaining person left alive who murdered him, he himself will die again at midnight. The question is, can a good-hearted boy like Hugh kill someone in cold blood so he himself can live again?

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