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Down by the Water by Cordelia Harrison

October 18, 2019
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by Cordelia Harrison   Celia Mulligan was found dead; floating face down in the murky waters of the river Bourton. Her dress originally a sparse white muslin, was stained green with numerous strains of…

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One Week Getaway by James Rumpel

October 9, 2019
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by James Rumpel   The exceedingly elderly man sat in his hover chair, surrounded by numerous tubes and wires. The primary purpose of the gadgetry was to maintain the decrepit man’s existence, though they…

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River Song by Emma Johnson-Rivard

September 20, 2019
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by Emma Johnson-Rivard   It starts like this. The dead girl was not buried. She was stuffed into a burlap sack and thrown from a bridge to float two miles downstream before coming to…

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Kobudai by Jake Kendall

September 13, 2019
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by Jake Kendall   Sean paused outside the wine bar. He took a deep breath, wiped the sweat of his palms against his jeans and walked inside. His date was watching from a table…

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Peeper by R.D. Steadie

August 23, 2019
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By R.D. Steadie   It started a few weeks ago with some creepy guy peeping on me while I was doing my laundry. There’s a storage room door in the laundry room where I…

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Gimme A Smile by Mike Strange

August 16, 2019
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by Mike Strange The Tacoma City Mall had been abandoned for some time. Aside from the odd squatter or two under the entrance, no one had been back inside the place since it was…

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The Burning Bride by Liam Martin

August 2, 2019
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The Burning Bride by Liam Martin   I stared over the top of one of my bookshelves at the strange parcel that lay on the edge of the counter. It was wrapped in thick…

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Sherrick and the Train

June 21, 2019
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by Dan Maltbie   PART ONE Sherrick dipped and dived his tiny speeder through the heavy traffic surrounding the central spire on Transysco Prime. The clean glass and steel tower rose high above the…

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I Am Roar

May 17, 2019
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By Joachim Heijndermans   The man peeks through the top slot again. The one with the strange, withered ghoulish face and glass eye. He reminds me of that guy from the old Dracula movies,…

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Press 2 For Chaos

December 28, 2018
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