Perfect Love by Sonia Kilvington
Explanatory Summary of Supplementary Notes for Independent Inquiry on Report 2/XD71H: Deaths: Cause/ Failure of Experiment. Date 26/10/33 Ombudsman Investigator: Professor. D. Clarke, Department of...
View ArticleMinral Cawt Defends The Glounce by Douglas J. Ogurek
“These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.” – Mark 7: 6 Minral Cawt stood at the Warfare Sanctum entry and kissed the roolstone embedded in his dance staff. He needed to...
View ArticleA Tissue of Webs by Paul D. Brazill
The thing is, I didn’t particularly care whether she was lying to me or telling me the truth, since most of what I’d told her had been dug up from some murky hinterland somewhere on the outskirts of...
View ArticleCain and Abel (REDUX) by Dr. Mel Waldman
Genesis 4:8 – King James Bible “And Cain talked with Abel his brother: And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.” * Cain Jones, owner...
View ArticleFuck Doll By Aimee Delong
The shoelaces dangle as if exhausted from their vigorous rub down. Brad cleaned them. Before that he unlaced them. This process started when his eyeballs narrowed their OCD search light stare, as he...
View ArticleThe Chin By B.R. Stateham
A painted rock. A rock about the size of a small child’s open palm. Painted an odd, curiously light reflective smoky gray hue. One side of it was curved slightly. The curve gentle, suggesting that it...
View ArticleThe Twilit World By David Massengill
The elderly taxi driver drops me off at a chain link fence blocking the main drive of the University of Hollinsbridge. “You sure you want to do this, lad?” Lad. As if I were 21, like I was when I came...
View ArticleHeadshots By Dave Jaggers
“John, its Davey. I got the envelope. Yeah, the fucker didn’t even try to hide it. It was on the table under an Oprah magazine, I shit you not. Yeah man, I’ll be there in ten.” Davey Lipscomb turned...
View ArticleA New Man By Matthew Brockmeyer
It was a splendid summer afternoon, the sky a deep, gleaming blue and the air filled with the songs of chirping sparrows as Bartholomew Wethers strolled through the bustling streets of Old Town...
View ArticleJolly Holiday by Melanie Browne
When Carolyn first wrote her bucket list, she was soaking in the tub after getting all the kids tucked into bed. Her oldest had a Spanish test and her youngest was complaining of a headache. She had...
View ArticleIn Green by Sam Cutter
On May 31st, the first plant entered the building. “It’s just going to die. You know that right?” Martin Lampitt said to his father whose infirm hands shook as he tucked a handkerchief into the pocket...
View ArticleForbidden Island By Dr. Mel Waldman
In the wasteland of Brooklyn, New York, I, Dan T. Matthews, sit on my tiny terrace clutching an old hardcover copy of Carlos Castaneda’s The Teachings of Don Juan. On this dog day afternoon in August,...
View ArticleAll In A Row by Jim J. Wilsky
Homicide Detectives Dan Morrison and Hector Ramirez are speeding down a quiet tree lined street in Canyon Springs, just north of San Antonio. Big homes and well-manicured yards. Long driveways, with...
View ArticleDolbots in Cosplay By Clara Brown
Her skin is pale with a hint of blue, like a porcelain doll crafted by a mortician’s hand. Crystalline-like eyes sit in sockets too large for her pixie-like skull and when she brings the poison apple...
View ArticleThe State of the Church of Bowie in 2525 by K. A. Laity
My beloved in Ziggy—transplendent be his name!—there are some troubling trends of late in our nation. Despite the ubiquity of our faith—it’s rare to see anyone not wearing a lightning bolt, admittedly,...
View ArticleFetus in Fetu by A.C. Glasier
Four days ago, when you stumbled out drunk from the nightclub, you stopped short and felt a painful stirring deep in your belly. Three days ago, you were in the shower when you discovered a strange...
View ArticleGassing Joe by Walter Giersbach
Sarah’s so-called boyfriend was Joe. Not much of a man, or young adult as they pigeon-hole them now. It was easy to get him drunk since there’s not much else to do in this forgotten part of Connecticut...
View ArticleJudge and Jury by Jeff Dosser
“Baker one oh three, Baker one oh three and a backer, respond to a disturbance at 1301 N Trenton Circle,” crackled over Jake Dillon’s radio as he sat slumped in the driver’s seat of his police cruiser....
View ArticleArtist Showcase – Cesar Valtierra
In his own words… “I draw in a variety of styles however pen and ink is my favorite way to draw. Each piece is not really inspired by anything other than random thoughts that I put on paper. I am a...
View ArticleA Night Stalker By Dr. Mel Waldman
The long-legged blonde with a tattoo of St. Jude on her left arm staggers into the abandoned building, stumbles across a long dark hallway, and descends the stairs into the dimly lit basement. She...
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