Bewildering Recipes: A young, supernatural bond... an accident. Right?

Sebastian Herring is a failure, a boy living alone with his cat, dog, and tea. Maybe even an occasional trip to the beach. His family and friends all thought he was clinically insane growing up, terrified at his talk of every pair of “Wings.” So he let it go. He became what the world wanted him to be. He became normal to those around him. The night a cooking experiment goes to disaster, he finds the truth. A tipsy-acting truth that slaps him pretty quickly. A demonic truth, you could say.

Chapter 1
Life scares me. People scare me. The things I see scare me. And it has always been that way, for as long as I can remember. Some ...

Chapter 2
 I scoop my cat, Maggie, off my lap and set her back down gently on my pillow. She nudges my hand and sniffs before curling ...

Chapter 3
Flipping through the ancient cookbook is a bit terrifying. I can’t cook, so all these lists of foreign foods is worrying m ...

Chapter 4
“Sebastian! Don’t you dare hang up on—“ I fling the phone down angrily, slumping back on the couch. ...

Chapter 5
Zane barks again. I sigh, rolling over in my bed, sweaty and disgruntled. The clock reads 3:27 a.m. Images keep flashing in my m ...

Chapter 6: Astileu (Two centuries ago)
Another strike sears across his scarred back, eliciting a numbed, exhausted whimper from his dry, chapped lips as more blood dri ...

Chapter 7
I look over at Astileu, now regretting ever making fun of him and calling him Tuxie. His voice is quiet as he finishes telling m ...

Chapter 8
We stop by a gas station minutes outside of Los Angeles, somehow getting Leo inside the bathroom without any people seeing him. ...