Protection is supposed to keep the darkness out. But when something learns how to move through it — how to twist it, feed from it, live inside it — the line between safety and danger disappears. In a house built on faith and family, Nellie must step beyond what she understands, guided by instinct and something older than fear, while Jack holds the line between here and somewhere far worse. Because sometimes the only way to save someone is to follow the thing that’s trying to take them.
Word Count: 16.6k
TW: canon-typical violence.
Read More | 03/31/2026
-Allison Bastaja
Some things don’t stay buried. They move quietly beneath the surface, following paths no one can see until it’s too late. As Nellie and Jack arrive in Sioux Falls, what begins as a strange case quickly turns into something far worse, one that even Jody Mills can’t explain. Because this isn’t just a monster leaving bodies behind. It’s something building itself piece by piece. And when the hunt starts to fight back, the line between hunter and hunted doesn’t just blur. It disappears.
Word Count: 14.7k
TW: canon-typical violence. use of mild language.
Read More | 03/25/2026
-Allison Bastaja
Some stories don’t ask for permission. They pull you in, dress you up, and expect you to play your part. As Nellie and Jack step from one world into another, the rules keep changing. Faces shift, roles rewrite themselves, and the line between fiction and reality begins to blur. But when someone else is holding the pen, the most dangerous thing you can do is refuse to follow the script.
Word Count: 16.6k
TW: canon-typical violence. use of mild language.
Read More | 03/16/2026
-Allison Bastaja
Some battles don’t end when the monster hits the ground. Sometimes they follow you home, into quiet libraries, restless dreams, and the uneasy silence between heartbeats. As Nellie struggles with power that no longer feels entirely her own, Jack stays beside her searching for answers buried in old lore and older mistakes. Because when the line between control and chaos starts to blur, the real question isn’t how to win the fight. It’s how far you’re willing to go to stop yourself.
Word Count: 28.6k (in theory could have made this two chapters but didn’t)
TW: canon-typical violence. use of mild language
Read More | 03/11/2026
-Allison Bastaja
Some ghosts don’t need graves. As Nellie and Jack track signs of rising witchcraft, something else begins watching from the edges of the hunt. Visions blur with reality, old scars burn with warning, and the past refuses to stay where it belongs.
Word Count: 21.8k
TW: canon-typical violence. descriptions of choking. use of mild language.
Read More | 03/04/2026
-Allison Bastaja
Some names don’t stay buried just because you stop answering to them. They linger in old records, old houses, and the hands of people who decided long ago who you were supposed to be. As Nellie returns to the place she was never meant to belong, Jack walks beside her into a history built on silence and blame. Some pasts don’t ask for forgiveness. They just wait for you to stand in front of them and decide who you are now.
Word Count: 16.2k
TW: ANGST. brief mentions of abuse and abandonment. use of mild language.
Read More | 02/24/2026
-Allison Bastaja
Some lives aren’t rebuilt in grand moments. They take shape in long drives, shared meals, late-night conversations, and the quiet promise that someone will still be there in the morning. As Nellie and Jack settle deeper into partnership and family, they learn that trust isn’t just about facing monsters together. It’s about letting someone see what you’re afraid to lose. And sometimes, the hardest secret to keep is the one that makes you feel whole.
Word Count: 11.9k
TW: light angst. use of mild language
Read More | 02/17/2026
-Allison Bastaja
Some traps don’t spring all at once. They tighten slowly—hallways bending, memories slipping, the walls learning how you move. As Nellie and Jack push deeper into a house that refuses to let go of the people inside it, they discover that escape isn’t always about finding the door. Sometimes it’s about forcing the dark to remember what it’s supposed to be. And sometimes, that kind of light comes at a cost.
Word Count: 12.7k
TW: canon-typical violence. brief mentions of corpses. use of mild language.
Read More | 02/10/2026
-Allison Bastaja
Some hauntings don’t stay quiet once you start listening. They swell, they follow, and they learn the shape of the roads you travel. As Nellie and Jack trace a pattern written in water and grief, they discover that some spirits don’t linger where they died. They wait at crossings, at thresholds, at the places where people hesitate. And once noticed, they don’t like being ignored.
Word Count: 15.2k
TW: canon-typical violence. brief descriptions of drowning. use of mild language.
Read More | 02/04/2026
-Allison Bastaja
Some patterns don’t reveal themselves until the third body hits the ground. By then, guilt has teeth, anger has learned how to move, and silence has already chosen its next target. As Nellie and Jack step into their first hunt side by side, they learn that not all ghosts linger where they died and not every reckoning waits patiently to be understood. Some hauntings don’t want justice. They want witnesses.
Word Count: 12.4k
TW: canon-typical violence. brief descriptions of violent deaths. use of mild language.
Read More | 01/27/2026
-Allison Bastaja
Some alliances aren’t forged in battle. They form in shared silences, guarded routines, and the careful work of learning where another person ends and you begin. As Nellie and Jack settle into the rhythm of coexistence, they discover that trust isn’t built on what you survive together, but on what you’re willing to let the other see. And not every truth stays buried when two people start calling the same place home.
Word Count: 13.7k
TW: none other than use of mild language.
Read More | 01/20/2026
-Allison Bastaja
After losing herself once, trust doesn’t come easily. When the bunker opens to a familiar name and an unfamiliar face, Nellie is forced to confront the fear that lingers long after possession ends. And the question of whether safety means control, or connection.
Word Count: 17k
TW: little to no violence. one punch thrown. use of mild language.
Read More | 01/13/2026
-Allison Bastaja
Some hauntings don’t come from the dead. They come from the quiet in-between moments. Missed calls, half-finished hunts, journals that don’t read like your own. Six months after the coven, Nellie throws herself into the work, chasing answers through empty roads and louder silences. But as the bunker begins to watch her back, and time starts slipping through her hands, she learns that the scariest monsters aren’t always out there. Sometimes, they’re the ones you carry home.
Word Count: 22.5k
TW: canon-typical violence. angst. use of mild language.
Read More | 01/06/2026
-Allison Bastaja
Some midnights don’t belong to the people celebrating them. They’re stolen—traded in quiet rooms, wrapped in champagne toasts and words like “process” and “second chances.” At Highcrest Lodge, Nellie walks into a New Year built on borrowed heartbeats and time taken from someone else, and she has to decide how much a future is worth when she’s staring straight at the bill.
Word Count: 28.1k
TW: canon-typical violence. use of mild language.
Read More | 01/01/2026
-Allison Bastaja
Some Christmases aren’t about miracles or monsters. They’re about hot cocoa, movie nights, messy cookies, and a tree full of years she never got to have. In the glow of borrowed traditions and new memories, Nellie discovers that the scariest thing isn’t the dark outside, it’s the light inside a home that wants her to stay.
Word Count: 22.1k
TW: none. very fluffy! Some mild angst, but with a happy ending. mild use of language
Read More | 12/25/2025
-Allison Bastaja
The holidays promise rest. Winter does not. When frost carries memory and the land remembers being hurt, Nellie learns that peace isn’t given, it’s negotiated, carefully, with forces that do not forget.
Word Count: 16.6k
TW: canon-typical violence. use of mild language.
Read More | 12/19/2025
-Allison Bastaja
It doesn’t chase. It waits. It doesn’t roar. It whispers. And in the frozen dark of Monarch Ridge, Nellie steps into the snowy terrain where warmth is currency and voices are weapons.
Word Count: 12.9k
TW: canon-typical violence. use of mild language.
Read More | 12/09/2025
-Allison Bastaja
Every hunt ends with a reckoning. In the ruins of blood and fire, Nellie discovers what it truly means to be chosen, not by fate, not by witches, but by her own stubborn will to live. What shatters here will shape what rises next.
Word Count: 12.9k
TW: canon-typical violence. HEAVY ANGST with a happy ending. use of mild language.
Read More | 11/25/2025
-Allison Bastaja
Sometimes strength isn’t about fighting back, it’s about refusing to break. As the coven prepares her for a ritual built on hollowing, Nellie faces the kind of hurt she thought she'd left behind. And while every minute drags her closer to the edge, Sam and Isaac race against a clock the coven has already begun to run out.
Word Count: 8.2k
TW: canon-typical violence. HEAVY ANGST. depictions of ritualistic activity, and physical abuse. talks of suicide. brief description of SA. use of mild language.
Read More | 11/18/2025
-Allison Bastaja
All trust begins in longing. But longing makes easy prey. And when the spell breaks, Nellie learns the hardest truth of all: sometimes the hand that lifts you up is the one that lets you fall.
Word Count: 8.1k
TW: canon-typical violence. use of mild language
Read More | 11/11/2025
-Allison Bastaja
The mine took lives. The coven took what was left. Now, standing in the echo of both, Nellie has to decide what she’s willing to dig up and what she’s willing to bury. Because even hearts of coal can still catch fire.
Word Count: 14.5k
TW: canon-typical violence. use of mild language.
Read More | 11/04/2025
-Allison Bastaja
For one night, the world feels almost ordinary. Music, laughter, a flicker of something close to home. But every hunter knows the truth: even on Halloween, the masks don’t always come off.
Word Count: 13.4k
TW: canon typical violence. brief descriptions of violent deaths. mild use of language.
Read More | 10/31/2025
-Allison Bastaja
You can patch the wounds, burn the bodies, clean the blood. But the aftermath lingers. In the stillness after the storm, Nellie faces the one thing no hunter’s ready for: what comes next.
Word Count: 13.3k
TW: canon-typical violence. ANGST. use of mild language.
Read More | 10/28/2025
-Allison Bastaja
It was supposed to be a hunt. Clean, simple, by the book. But nothing about the Winchesters ever is. Now, with Sam’s life hanging in the balance, Nellie finds out that saving people isn’t the hardest part — it’s learning what it costs.
Word Count: 13.7k
TW: canon-typical violence. some harassment. use of mild language.
Read More | 10/21/2025
-Allison Bastaja
The house was supposed to be a haven. Laughter in the halls, crayons on the floor, a promise that some ghosts could be outgrown. But beneath the wallpaper and whispers, something waits. And when the night begins to move, Nellie learns that saving others sometimes means facing the monsters you thought you’d already survived.
Word Count: 16.1k
TW: canon-typical violence. light angst with some fluffy moments. use of mild language.
Read More | 10/14/2025
-Allison Bastaja
Some histories don’t stay buried. Beneath moss and marble, Nellie and Sam uncover halls built on secrets, wards that remember intruders, and shadows that refuse to fade.
Word Count: 14k
TW: canon-typical violence. ANGST. brief descriptions of unethical experiments by the Men of Letters. use of mild language.
Read More | 10/07/2025
-Allison Bastaja
Every confession leaves a mark. In St. Mary’s, the air itself seems to shiver with it—forgotten sins, broken prayers, and something darker waiting in the silence. For Sam and Nellie, wearing borrowed collars won’t be enough to keep the shadows at bay.
Word Count: 15.5k
TW: canon-level violence. use of mild language.
Read More | 09/30/2025
-Allison Bastaja
Not every monster wears fangs. Some steal their way into quiet houses, pressing on chests and silencing breath. But in the fight against the Hag, Nellie learns the hardest weight isn’t the one that crushes your ribs—it’s the one that settles in your heart when family is the only thing keeping you alive.
Word Count: 10.2k
TW: canon-typical violence. brief description of suffocation. mild use of language.
Read More | 09/23/2025
-Allison Bastaja
The water remembers what people forget. In the silence of the Louisiana bayou, secrets surface, bonds are tested, and Nellie discovers that some truths can drown just as easily as they can save.
Word Count: 16k
TW: canon-typical violence. near drowning. mild use of language.
Read More | 09/16/2025
-Allison Bastaja
The house that remembers. The man who refuses to forget. And caught between them, Nellie finds herself balancing the weight of blood, the sharp edge of memory, and Sam’s steady hand reminding her she doesn’t face it alone.
Word Count: 15.5k
TW: this chapter contains discussions of SA, depictions of harassment, and mentions of abuse. emotional/angst. use of mild language.
Read More | 09/09/2025
-Allison Bastaja
Some games don’t end when the lights go out. In a house where whispers linger and dolls move without hands, Nellie learns that not every haunting belongs to a ghost—and not every child’s friend is imaginary.
Word Count: 10.4k
TW: canon-level violence. brief description of accidents. use of mild language.
Read More | 09/04/2025
-Allison Bastaja
Some stories don’t end when the fire goes out. They linger, stitched into the walls, waiting for someone to pull the thread. And when Nellie follows it, she finds the kind of silence that doesn’t comfort — it warns.
Word Count: 11.6k
TW: canon-typical violence. very brief depiction of choking. use of mild language.
Read More | 08/26/2025
-Allison Bastaja
Some lessons can’t be taught in books. Between bruised knuckles, salt lines, and the weight of her father’s pistol, Nellie learns what it means to step into the field. Becoming a hunter isn’t just about monsters—it’s about who you choose to be when the fear doesn’t go away.
Word Count: 13.4k
TW: fluff with light angst. a very brief mention of harrassment. use of mild language
Read More | 08/19/2025
-Allison Bastaja
Sometimes the danger isn’t in the hunt. It’s in the stillness afterward, when the people around you stop feeling like strangers—and start feeling like something you could lose.
Word Count: 10.7k
TW: fluff with light angst. brief description of bleeding (nose bleeds). use of mild language
Read More | 08/12/2025
-Allison Bastaja
Sometimes, angels don't arrive with trumpets. Sometimes, they slip through the cracks, sit on the edge of the bed, and remind you you're worth saving. In the quiet between breakdown and breakthrough, Nellie meets a stranger who knows too much—and a presence that refuses to let her fall.
Word Count: 6.2k
TW: dark angst with small moments of fluff, dark themes such as: attempted suicide, emotional trauma, and grief. brief descriptions of attempted suicide and light physical abuse. Mild use of language
Read More | 08/07/2025
-Allison Bastaja
Not all inheritances are written in wills. Some are buried in backseats, locked in glove compartments, or stitched into the lining of a jacket left behind.
As Nellie steps deeper into the world Dean once walked, she begins to understand: the past doesn’t just haunt—it hands you the keys.
Word Count: 11.2k
TW: fluff with angst. mild language used.
Read More | 08/05/2025
-Allison Bastaja
Some dangers don’t knock. They slip in through open windows, wrapped in shadows and silence. As Nellie begins to heal and find her place, the past—or something darker—comes calling. One quiet night becomes a battleground, revealing that her powers aren’t gone... and neither is the threat. In a house full of warmth, fear finds a way back in.
Word Count: 12.4k
TW: canon-typical violence. description of a panic attack and sleepwalking. angst with fluff. mild language used.
Read More | 07/29/2025
-Allison Bastaja
The hardest part isn't the monsters. It's sitting at a table meant for three. In the stillness between grief and belonging, Nellie finds herself caught in a legacy she never asked for—and a family that might still choose her anyway.
Word Count: 13.5k
TW: light angst/emotional with fluff. brief depictions of canon-level violence, nightmare, panic attack, medical care plan (eyedrops and nebulizer). use of mild language
Read More | 07/22/2025
-Allison Bastaja
Some fires are meant to cleanse. But in the ash of a broken life, Nellie wakes to find more than scars—she finds silence, a new name, and a family she never expected. In the quiet aftermath, grief lingers, identities shift, and as old wounds begin to heal, new ones take root. Not all hauntings come from ghosts. Some come from memory.
Word Count: 11.4k
TW: emotional/angst. canon-level violence. depictions of death and fire. mentions of death, abuse, and medical terminology. mild language use.
Read More | 07/15/2025
-Allison Bastaja
Some doors aren’t meant to open. But in the attic of a haunted childhood, Nellie finds more than dust—she finds sigils, bones, and a truth that won’t stay buried.
Word Count: 11.3K
TW: canon typical violence, depictions of abuse, manipulation, violence/gore, and death, mild language
Read More | 07/09/2025
-Allison Bastaja
Truth doesn’t always come roaring in. Sometimes, it settles in like dust—on old files, on old names, on questions no one’s ready to answer.
Word Count: 5.3K
TW: mild language, brief mentions of death and abuse
Read More | 07/01/2025
-Allison Bastaja
Family doesn't always knock gently. Sometimes, it shows up on your doorstep with questions, a name, and eyes that echo ghosts from the past.
Word Count: 5.1K
TW: mild language, brief mentions of death and abuse
Read More | 06/24/2025
-Allison Bastaja
Chapter 1 will be released on June 23, which is Supernatural Day in Austin, TX.
In the meantime, here is some info about me!
Read More | 06/13/2025
-Allison Bastaja