Ghost stories from Latvia

The Salt Road Gathering

The clock on the dashboard read 2:17 a.m. when the old pickup truck began to shudder, its engine coughing like a smoker with a bad chest. I was on Route...

The Gilded Gate

I am Clara, and in two days I will be sixteen. Most girls my age are planning parties, picking dresses, and whispering about boys. I spend my evenings tracing the...

Spiritual Disturbances In Apartment

After moving to Riga through marriage, we (my husband and I) settled into an apartment where he had been living for over five years. Initially, my husband was not very...

The Bog Throat

The town of Harrow-on-the-Mire wasn’t on any tourist map, and the locals liked it that way. A single road wound through it, past boarded-up shops and houses whose paint blistered...

The Stillwater Mirror

The first time I noticed something was wrong was on a Tuesday. I’d come home from the university library, my backpack heavy with books I’d barely cracked, and found Aunt...

The Loop of Grease and Ash

The first sign was the smell. Not the usual scent of burnt toast or the faint tang of old pipes, but something deeper, like rendered fat left too long in...

The Gravedigger’s Bargain

It was a crisp October afternoon, and the air smelled of damp earth and fallen leaves. I, Marcus, sat in the back seat of our family’s rundown sedan, wedged between...

The Hollow in the Wall

The first time I saw the crack in the wall, I blamed the house’s age. We’d moved into the old farmhouse two months prior, lured by the low rent and...

The Feast of Hollow Eyes

I was nine when my family moved to the town of Morrow’s Reach, a name that always felt like a warning. Our house sat at the edge of a vast,...

The Latticework of Drowned Ferns

The morning light came through the window of our rented cottage like a blessing. My sister, Mira, and I had come to the village of Kestrel’s Hollow to escape the...

The Moth and the Mirror

The winter of my sixteenth year, I lived in the port city of Osthaven, a clattering, salt-crusted town where the fog came in off the sea like a living thing....

The Root Cellar Accordion

In the autumn of 1943, the village of Krustpils sat like a frayed knot on the edge of the Latvian countryside. My great-aunt, Ilze, was sixteen, with braids the color...

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