Paige Joustra

After her mother's death, a sixteen-year-old girl forms an unexpected bond with a troubled outcast, guiding her through the quiet depths of grief.

Junior races the clock to rescue her estranged brother from insane UFO cultists rumored to have supernatural powers.

In the 19th century, amongst a strange wilderness, smallpox mysteriously strikes a colonial family down. A woman must face a choice between accepting her narrow prospects set out by her father or following a dangerous path beyond the home.

A girl tries to deal with a tragedy she blames herself for on the first anniversary of it's happening.

In the once quiet school library at St Marks College, Zane, James and Mitch are met head-on with the challenges of their final school year. Against-the-grain bad boy Zane becomes obsessed with Becca, the new girl at school. The more laid back James is being leaned on by Beth, his long term girlfriend, who wants him to take a little responsibility over his life. And Mitch is just trying to lose his virginity, but in the process becomes involved with Tilly, the most popular girl in school.

A grieving lover embarks on a dark journey through memory, a lonely cleaner develops an unhealthy fixation on her boss, and a young couple find themselves caught between a dangerous demonic entity and a fanatically religious mother. See your fears and desires reflected in this female-focused collection of strange and twisted tales.

A troubled teenager must save her little sister from a bloodthirsty fairy lurking in the forest before it devours them both.

Young couple Hunter and Olive navigate their relationship with Evelyn, Olive’s disapproving and obsessively religious mother. When a mysterious hole appears in the floor of their new home, things start to heat up.

A troubled vagabond assumes the life of a struggling actor, leading to catastrophic consequences.

A fairly prolific young writer struggling for her next story is drugged and wakes up tied to a chair in a room ripped right out of one of her more horrifying books, with no foreseeable way out.

Inspired by true events, the story of everyday Australians at the front line of the devastating fires of the 2019-2020 Australian summer.