Jessica Beauregard blushed slightly as she watched her roommate blow out a thin plume of blue smoke. It wasn’t that she was a prude or anything, but she had only been at school for two months and was still getting used to things. She had enrolled at the academy with an eye towards business; numbers [...]

There were, it was commonly known, two possible prerequisites for entering the Farraday Academy. The first was a superior intellect – even the most basic of classes far surpassed those offered by most universities in both depth and challenge, and more than a couple of alumni ranked among nobel prize winners. The second was immense [...]

Marcus Ellenbee had his arms folded on the long table, his head down on it as his eyes lazily scanned several lines of his book before looking up. It was a cycle he’d gone through roughly every few minutes of the last hour. Spears of sunlight pierced the windows, and there was only one student [...]

A thick, orange candle casts a harsh light across the table, four young people seated around it. At the head, a short boy with dark, shaggy hair looks up and begins to speak. “Welcome to the first meeting of the Farraday Academy Paranormal Investigation Society. Our purpose is-” “That’s not really the name, is it? [...]