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Two people face off angrily - Abraytha on the left with scruffy brown hair, great bat-like wings, horns, and an eccentric outfit. Jenny Everywhere is dresed no less eccentrically with goggles on her head and a rainbow tuto and socks. A broken vase lies between them, and a rainbow effect speads across the whole image from behind them.
We're also pleased to announce that Ostara Gale's A Visit From Everywhere now has a wonderfully vibrant illustration drawn by Aristide Twain! This was one of the first stories on our site; to have a look with the new artwork, visit the story yourself here: thecheshirehouse.wordpress.com?p=1399
thecheshirehouse.wordpress.com?p=1423 Read Coalfire part one here!
A digital illustration. On a rooftop in front of snowy mountains and under a cold grey sky, Xiantio, a tan woman with shoulder-length red hair and a long tail, carefully balances herself. She wears a blue coat, purple turtleneck, and brown boots, and her ears are pointy. Behind her is a rip in teh sky showing an orange and green maelstrom with many planets.
Part one of two-part epic Coalfire sees the return of The Castaways of Ishiok; in this new story penned by Aristide Twain and edited by Ostara Gale, the untamed majesty of a space-time Rift deposits Abraytha and Xiantio on a frozen world whose past may hold terrible secrets about their own futures…
When alarms start going off and their new life is under threat, Zadellin will do whatever it takes to keep her crew together. Even if that risks tearing them apart.
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A digital drawing of a black cat with white front markings walking. She is stopped at a place where the tiled floor under her branches to become red pipes that run towards a heart. The heart's vein-pipes stretch out and drip green in places.
Gale Heimeldat drew this incredible illustration of Mister Whiskers standing on the Edge. @heimeldat.bsky.social
Hope Can Keep Me is the next story in Zadellin, penned by Theta Mandel and edited by Ostara Gale and Aristide Twain.
It is a story, this story; nearing a conclusion, perhaps. There are monsters in Avenue. This is the tagline; this is what is being whispered. But, by who? Do you believe in monsters? And, who benefits if you do?
Yellow streetlamps barely illuminate a dark path between trees. A cloaked figure can be seen on the right side. In white reads "Disparate Minds" at the top, and "Lagrange Point Part One" at the bottom.
Lagrange Point Part One was written by Plum Pudding and edited by Ostara Gale and Aristide Twain. The cover for Lagrange Point Part One was created by the ever-talented Plum Pudding. @plumpuddin.bsky.social @aristidetwain.bsky.social @wyrdvora.bsky.social
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Happy new year from The Cheshire House! We have three new stories to welcome you into 2026 — please enjoy the next installments in Zadellin and The Castaways of Ishiok, as well as the first part of the season finale of Disparate Minds Season One!
The book is also still in print through Amazon. What’s your favourite medium to experience Snowstorm?
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Edited by Aristide Twain with stories from twenty-one writers, this massive holiday anthology has something for everyone. The ebook is available from Arcbeatle Press’s webstore - just go to arcbeatlepress.com and hit the ‘store’ button!
Snap it up at this price while you can to read all the other incredible stories that made their way into the world along with ours, and to support the company who gave us our start. The Cheshire House is here today because of this anthology.
A digital drawing of a small cactus man looking up at a large brown bird with green wings. Crammed bookshelves are behind them, and a white logo at the top says 'Coloth'. At the bottom reads in white all caps 'The Book of the Snowstorm, ed. Aristide Twain'.
Three of our four series began their lives with debut short stories in Arcbeatle Press's ‘The Book of the Snowstorm’, a special holiday anthology containing many wonderful tales (828 pages worth!). Now, two years later, the ebook is on sale at only 99 cents! Gorgeous cover art by Holly Lucero.
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As she tries to piece together what the hell happened to her body while she was gone, she also has to figure out how to get out of the situation the other Jenny left her body in, and most importantly, if the Illuminati really exist.
The prelude, also by Aristide, was edited by Theta Mandel, and follows a Jenny Everywhere as she shifts back into her body and finds herself a prisoner sailing in a ship on the Chronon Sea.
A pinkish-purple sky scattered with stars and large planets of different colours, some with rings or craters. A couple suns can be seen, and a lighthouse rises from a multicoloured beach, behind which is a very blue ocean.
This whimsical illustration was drawn by the even more whimsical Theta Mandel. The Face of the Unknown - Overture is the prelude to an upcoming Jenny Everywhere story by Aristide Twain. This story shows what happened to Jenny after the events of A World of Pure Unimagination.
Junior, the next installment in Disparate Minds, was written by Plum Pudding. Edited by Ostara Gale and Aristide Twain. June has become used to Avenue and this is a terrifying thing. As she examines her new life and her old, she comes across a repeating pattern, and people even more lost than her.
A far-away child standing on a tilted desolate landscape. It is cloudy and grey. In white, at the top of the image, it says “Disparate Minds”, and at the bottom, “Junior”.
Plum Pudding @plumpuddin.bsky.social made the cover and it is the dumping ground (the dumping ground). You will Understand. Soon.
Still, even legends need to rest, and so Lotto and her charge Max stop for the night at a roadside hotel owned by the mysterious Peter Warren. When rooms seem to move and the facts aren't adding up, Lotto starts to wonder if the owner's ghost stories are more than just tourist-enticing tall tales...
Lotto is on her way back to Walter's Hope, the town that had lead to her death, but this time, she's not alone. With her is a missing teen who thinks she is King Arthur... and she might well be right.
A digital drawing of a brown bay window, as seen from the outisde, with a red neon sign reading “Hotel Warren” in the middle. Behind one of the top window panes is the faint silhouette of a person, with one red eye visible. In the windows below in grey reads “Elodie Christian”, spread between the window panes.
The spooky cover of Hotel Warren, drawn by the talented Newton Locheye!
Hotel Warren is the first novella-length story in The Interstellar Sleuth series, written by series creator Elodie Christian, and edited by Ostara Gale @wyrdvora.bsky.social and Aristide Twain @aristidetwain.bsky.social .
Happy Halloweekend! This spooky season, us Cheshirites have three treats to add to your candy basket — please enjoy tucking into an Interstellar Sleuth novella, the next Disparate Minds, and a prelude to the promised Jenny Everywhere story! Get under your blankets, grab your popcorn, and tuck in...
Please enjoy this illustration to accompany part one of the story, drawn once more by the talented Newton Locheye!
The link above takes you to part one, with the shiny new artwork - part two is linked at the bottom of that page, so you can continue reading the story with no interruptions.
Last year, we released the first part of one of Lotto IV's stories, 'Island on the Edge of Eternity', by Thien Valdram. Part 2 was released soon after, accompanied by lovely artwork - and now, so is part 1!
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A rusty metal rover with an outstretched claw grab rolls along a barren dirt landscape.
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One of our earliest stories, "My name is SAM", now has lovely new artwork by Newton Locheye!
And that's not all! The thirteenth of August was the start of a very special celebration that stretches across several days… do check out jennyeverywhereday.com! We'll be back soon with our own very Jenny special release before the festivities are over!
The Blue Paper Routers, by Theta Mandel, celebrates the entanglement of queerness and social change as three outcasts get wrapped up in the resistance against Atlantis's authoritarian rulers. Revolution is coming; will you join, if you think it's not your fight? Or might it be your fight after all?
The Day the Storm came is a short xenofiction piece by Thien Valdram: The day the storm came, Skyshadow could not imagine being away from her pack. Not when thunder is promised by the air. But when she realises that one packmate remains missing from the cave, what can she do but run into the rain?
First is This is the Intent, or The Monkey Way, written by the brilliant @plumpuddin.bsky.social: Observe Anthea, the three in one. She, unstuck, is made of secrets. They are hidden, they are the dark horse. The twenty seven pages reveal many shadows. This is how you find out; this is the intent.
