Out to Pasture by Eric Farrell
“Are you really going to deprive them of what they want to see?” Earnest, dignified by a giant screen, stares at his programmer. “The gig is up,” Ainsley Andrews tells him. She’s staring at…
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Peel by Joachim Heinjdermans
I’m cold. Alone in this room, buck-naked and waiting for it, while two doctors and a rabble of nurses peek at me through a window of darkened glass. Nothing has happened yet. What a…
The Night Mare by Cody Nowak
The Night Mare was coming. Everyone was talking about it. It’d been just over a year since its last feeding, so if there was ever a time for an entire town to…
The Ticklebeast by Phillip Gustavus Hostetler
I love nature, I love the surprising and sometimes perplexing adaptations it produces to fill an ecosystemic niche. Just when I think I’ve seen it all through my many romps and hikes, a new…
Fractures by Peter Burton
The city’s dreich rainbow of concrete, granite, and cloud looms over me as I sit waiting on a steel bench, it’s cold metal tang absorbed long ago by the heat of my thighs. I’m…
Alone by Janine PIPE
Kirsten enjoyed a luxurious stretch in her large bed, revelling in the euphoria of a restful night. That, and knowing it was her day off, was pure bliss. The King-size bed was all hers,…
The Dungwich Horror
A Lovecraptian Tale by Josh Schlossberg My head throbbing from last night’s drinking binge, I sat on the john for my late morning elimination. Usually regular enough to set a clock by, I…
The Majestic Ten by Alexander Olson
There was a bottomless pothole in the far corner of the Majestic Ten Cinema parking lot. Bottomless, as in, one time, James, the assistant manager, tossed an ugly yellow dresser into it and we…
Surrogate Corpse by Mark Anthony Smith
She is always replacing things. Just as I get comfortable with a sofa – it’s gone. I can never relax at home. She can’t tell me why she feels the need to do it….
What They Caught at Loon Lake by Michael Carter
What They Caught at Loon Lake by Michael Carter A rod tip bobbed above cattails swaying in the summer breeze. Little Amanda held the cork handle of her rod firm as she traversed…
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