Fiction
With the One Among the Twelve by Stephen Faulkner
In a dream I was with him, in his own time. He and I and his company of twelve were in a room that was dank, hot and shadowy. There was an aura of subdued incandescence that lit the bedraggled, bearded faces of all who were present.
Fiction
The Blue Hole Boys by T.N. Collie
Damien didn’t care if the mango juice covered half his face and made his hands and cheeks sticky--he was starving.
Fiction
The God of Blood and Bones by Michelle Ann King
The phone rings at three o’clock in the morning. It’s on the coffee table, face down. Light leaks from underneath it. If I turn it over, it’ll be flashing Vince’s photo. At three o’clock in the morning, it’s always Vince.
Fiction
The Sea Princess by Jamie Lackey
Attina splashed out of the surf on four shaky limbs, then stood. She tottered on her strange flat feet. She missed the buoyancy and support of the water around her, found the act of inhaling and exhaling thin air exhausting, and already disliked the weight of her body pressing her feet into the hard, dry [...]
Fiction
The Death of Death by Carl West
The silhouette of black dunes against a distant horizon. Columns of ash and fire rising high into the stratosphere to support a canopy of rolling black clouds. That’s what Alton Brannon saw as he surveyed the alien and blasted landscape of that distant moon.
Fiction
A Reason to Leave By Betty Rocksteady
In the darkness, shadows stirred. Sleep never came easily to Angela and this was a particularly difficult night. Arms and legs tangled in sheets while she tossed and turned. Her traitorous brain was intent on reliving every painful memory it could dredge up.
Poetry
#70: Gobbed Up Psychic Dirt by KC Wilder
Not an easy life Harried by the demons Jack is desperate far too many bopping cropping popping up lambasting him inside Each and every one a bruiser shrill and quite accusatory you don’t have a child you don’t have a wife Tough to manage that’s for sure feelings he can’t skirt having to [...]
Poetry
The Looking Hole by Phylinda Moore
hallucination is solid as reality. I like it here, enough to stay.
Poetry
Spanning, As It Does, The Edge: A Poem In Four Phases by Ryu Ando
< Thesis: Here begins the first phase Of the despairing god. To wit: >
Flash
Heaven’s Return by Jason Lairamore
Warsh’s eyes were grey and when full moonlight hit them straight, they were white. Rogney had never seen the like. Course', Warsh was older than the Blackwater and had been around last time Heaven passed by. “Elder Warsh, you seen it. What’s it like?” Only Warsh was still alive of those that had chosen to [...]
Flash
Black Grammie by Walt Giersbach
Grammie was the one who first warned me about the black dog, up in the Forgotten Corner of Connecticut. “You hear that black dog, child, you know you’ll be dead ‘fore the week’s out’.” Mama pulled me away and said, “See, you made the child cry! Why’d you go and tell a six-year-old such things!” [...]
Flash
The Heirloom by Bojan Ratković
She stood at the entrance to the family shrine, looking at the jar that was half-buried in the ground. The light from outside threw the ceramic giant into an eerie spotlight, shining new life into its faded patterns. The jar was an heirloom, passed on for generations, never opened. It was a wedding present from [...]
Flash
Bad Samaritan by Ryan Neil Falcone
If you called me a murderer, I wouldn’t argue. I might not be directly responsible for what happened to my wife and five-year old son—or that little girl across the street—but hiding like a frightened child and doing nothing to help them makes me guilty on some level. My hands might be clean, but my [...]