Fiction
I was ecstatic when I was invited to be the guest editor for Liquid Imagination. What a wonderful opportunity, I thought. Here is a chance to see the writing game from the other side of the desk! I eagerly accepted and was soon given access to the submissions site. I began reading the submitted stories [...]
Fiction
It was dark by the time they arrived at the large detached house on the other side of town. The dog stood by Tom’s side.
Fiction
Restore Point by Ramon Rozas III
He awoke screaming in the hospital bed. His right arm was restrained in a padded cuff. He couldn’t feel his left arm. He looked over, stared at his left stump and started screaming again.
Fiction
Extract from ethnographic study conducted on JB-035/4906713V[1] from 2270-2273 USD[2] inclusive. Cultural Responses to Planetary Constraints The planet NDUG was divinely ordained and therefore, any problems local levels of radiation[3] pose for human life are part of the divine plan. As a result, any form of gene-splicing is rejected as being blasphemous as it attempts [...]
Fiction
Dead Letter Office by Tom Howard
When Pete tried to move, he couldn’t because he stood on one of his tentacles. He fought panic in the unexpected darkness
Fiction
Beyond the Reach of Moonlight by Jamie Lackey
Akane fought the urge to thrash impatiently, since muddying the water would only delay her transformation from fish to woman. She floated in her shallow seawater pool and waited for moonrise. The salty water was warm and calm—it would be a lovely summer night. And Isao was home, back from his annual journey to the [...]
Fiction
The Laughing Tree by Preston Dennett
Hiroko picked her way slowly through the Aokigahara forest. Go deeper, she told herself. Move quickly.
Flash
In Death I Dream of You Yet by Christian Fennell
See me dying, withered and decaying between crisp white sheets. I wait for the prick of the needle. It comes and the warm reprieve takes me again. I run. Dark and empty city streets. I stop, my heart pounding and resounding in my head, and I watch thin pools of water gathered upon the road beginning to ripple. [...]
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Venus and the Feathers by Lee Douglas
"When the feathers stop falling," Benson let go of the black feather and it floated to the ground. He picked another from the package of black feathers he'd purchased online. The living room of his apartment looked like a hundred ravens had been plucked. Feathers on the couch on, the bookshelf, the table. Benson [...]
Flash
Dusk seeped into the clouds and darkened the light in Jolie’s eyes. Her brother’s stuffed tiger, Tilly, lay somewhere along the lakeshore after a game of keep away with the other children catapulted him over the fence. Whatever monitory line the orphanage had drawn around the property, she stepped across it today. On the other [...]
Flash
You Have My Heart by Steve Eastwood
Sometimes I think it would've been easier if he had just slept with her. At least I wouldn't have to wonder if he thought about her firm body, her ample breasts or her dazzling smile every time he wrapped me in his embrace. Then it would be over between us. I could move on and [...]
Poetry
The Whirling Universe, a Delirious Belly Dancer & Femme Fatale by Dr. Mel Waldman
At dawn, the young man with gold eyes gazes at the yellow-orange sphere rising in the turquoise sky; & crepuscular insects wake up and bathe in the soothing heat, like tourists at a pool in Key West working on a rich tropical suntan. On this sumptuous, sensuous August morning, the Earth and all its creatures [...]
Poetry
Your Water Breaks by John Grey
Narrated by John Grey O Joanne my love it's not true. It can't be. A fetus is sealed in its jar, coiled in its pouch. 1 saw the x-ray, black and white like an old movie, and silent, so why the cries, why the water, drops and sprays and streams. Are you drowning? And the [...]
Poetry
Narrated by John Reinhart here he stopped, leaned on his gnarled staff, scratched his beard, a tired old man, tired of carrying and caring four winds not at his back but his beck – north, the chill of spurned love, cold coffee, second chances spoiled west, full of promise, forgetfulness, fire, emptiness south, like summer, [...]
Poetry
Spy not on Witches by James Frederick William Rowe
Narrated by James Frederick William Rowe Spy not on witches - you have heard the tale Of fool Pelseus, who on Syrgan beach With pervert peeping espied the wild Dance of frenzied devotees of wave washed Drimius, and who like his wat'ry wife Wore naught but hair, and skin, and sky and moaned Their invocations [...]