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Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 28 – The pit gaped ahead of me, the roots of the thirsty oak snaring my ankles and starting to draw me into that vile hole. I would lay there rotting, perhaps alive, perhaps dead, I didn’t know. I might become one of those Cursed Ones who lingered on

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 27 – “What is this?” I demanded, stumbling away from the tree where a woman who looked all too like me was reaching out a vine-coated arm and hissing warnings at the trees. I turned to my sister, the girl I’d spent so much of my life determined to rescue,

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 26 – “Ferris!” I roared into the malevolent forest. The trees were groaning around me, vines twisting together as I slashed at them with my sword, trying to tear a path after her. But for every vine I cut, another two grew in its place, the passage forward impossible

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 25 – Day seventeen. Dusk creeps up on me each day with reckless cunning. I’m certain the trees are working together to try and lure me out into the night. When I sleep, I’m haunted by the songs of the Lost Children. I wasn’t certain what it was at first,

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 24 – “Have you changed your mind?” Ferris asked, a touch of disappointment in her voice. “No,” I grunted. I’d fallen quiet, lost to thoughts of the past as I tried to piece it into a story I could tell her without unveiling the whole truth. But I didn’t

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 23 – We found shelter a few hours from dusk, an old mill with a broken wheel which lay on its side in an over-grown stream. Once again, my diary had proved itself a useful ally, and I couldn’t help the smug grin that found me as I pointed

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 22 – I’d thought my human would wake sooner than this, but she was still unconscious. After an hour of walking with her in my arms – and fighting the forest no-handed to forge a path – my patience shattered and I tore a couple of vines from a tree

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 21 – The wind howled against the windows, the trees thrashing wildly as if dancing to the beat of a song I couldn’t hear. It was strange to stand within the cocoon of the conservatory while a storm blustered beyond it, the plants entirely unaffected by the raging maelstrom

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 20 – Fae may have healed faster than humans ever could, but this might have been one of the worst injuries I’d ever secured in all my six hundred and fifty-two years. I had never felt this incapable and the more I pushed through the pain, the dizzier I

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 19 – Ilay panting in the grip of my enemy, his bulk pinning my arm to the flagstones in the wide entrance hall, his hot blood soaking through my shirt. “Get up,” I hissed, the adrenaline fading and my racing heart painting a rapid tempo against my ribcage. Hendrix