Sydney Leigh is the evil literary double of a mostly sane writer, artist, and editor who hails from the North Shore. Her short fiction, poetry, drabble, and reviews have been published in various anthologies and magazines, including Shock Totem, Shroud, Darkness Ad Infinitum, Enter at Your Own Risk: The End is the Beginning, The Horror Zine, 22 More Quick Shivers from DailyNightmare.com, Sanitarium Magazine, and more. She has edited several anthologies as well as a recent collection called Inkblots and Blood Spots, and won contests held by Dark Idol, Grey Matter Press, and Inner Sins Webzine. Forthcoming work is due to appear in The Library of the Dead, Our World of Horror, and Shroud Quarterly, among other publications. You can either find her co-writing with her one-eyed muse, shapeshifting at Villipede Publications, reading and critiquing slush for Shroud Publishing, or doing laundry, which she hates, and usually has her Border Collie Holden do for her instead. She is also Chief Editor of Eldritch Press' Novel Division.
A little girl's social conscience emerges on Christmas morning...and proves timing is everything.
"It's not what it looks like," she said. The girl’s parents stared in horror at what had, the night before, been a festive and lovingly arranged assortment of gifts under the tree. "But...but why?" Father reached down and examined a piece of shattered dol...
