A Feast for Saints
Reading Time: 4 minutesAn 18th century New England Christian tells of the terrible truth behind Thanksgiving.
Fiction
Giselle and Mr. Goebbels
Reading Time: 3 minutesRoger’s virtual digital assistant becomes possessed by the spirit of a vengeful ex-girlfriend who died of a broken heart. She wants to force him to dance himself to death to sixties rock music. The only one who can save Roger is the spirit of his deceased wife, Diane.
Portrait
Reading Time: 8 minutesIn 1921, a London painter’s encounter with a beautiful Romanian woman leads to a portrait sitting with hellish consequences.
I Know Who Killed Natalie Roane
Reading Time: 6 minutesHorror meets the near-term sci fi of additive manufacturing in a ghost story unlike most that came before it.
Chlorophylliation
Reading Time: 5 minutesColonists struggle with a strange, addictive plant that is strangling their settlement.
For Warmth and Trinkets
Reading Time: 4 minutesBrrr’s investigation reveal his ice planet is losing cold and fledglings because of bureaucrats chasing profit with human aliens.
Deracination
Reading Time: 4 minutesLovesick Serena is prepared to risk everything and uproot herself completely to be with the one she loves. But are her feelings returned?
Clean Slate
Reading Time: 21 minutesOn a Saturday morning, Grace Merritt vomits up a pocket watch that she’s never seen before.
Occupational Hazards or The Quite Curious Tale of Astridr Grimsdottir
Reading Time: 5 minutesWorking to a deadline can sometimes lead to astonishing conversations, even revelations. Does the artist dictate the art? Or the art the artist?
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Enough
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is the tale of a young photographer looking to catch her big break by capturing the perfect shot in the woods supposedly haunted by the ‘Snow Witch’.
Mired
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn this short historical horror, a soldier on WWI’s Western Front struggles with the enormity and guilt of having volunteered to enlist.
A Voice for the Scavengers
Reading Time: 23 minutesA government Hunter in a post apocalyptic world is challenged with either changing his allegiance or living a lie.
Hermit Crabs
Reading Time: 4 minutesAn unusual being is on a quest to find the perfect birthday gift for their lover. The tricky part is, they must leapfrog across several human bodies to get there.
Night Eyes
Reading Time: 4 minutesTurner finds himself stranded in the middle of the highway late at night. As he waits for help to arrive, a strange girl appears at his car. Is she real or a ghost of his dark past?
A Substitute for Salvation
Reading Time: 23 minutesA post-apocalyptic love triangle inspired by “Casablanca” that revolves around a misanthropic bar owner, a Mars-bound clone fighting for his freedom, and a repurposed sex droid.
Those Halcyon Days
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe had spent the winter together, sleeping on ice caps, pointing out constellations far above us in the sky.
The Belly of The Beast
Reading Time: 23 minutesWhen nothing is as it seems, how much are you willing to sacrifice to save mankind…
Stump Kid
Reading Time: 4 minutesA tween makes a deal with the local urban legend to ensure that his final Halloween Trick-or-Treating goes according to plan.
In the Bowels of the Theater
Reading Time: 20 minutesThere is magic in the theatre, ancient and powerful – not just of the stage, but of an elder and mighty god…one which Sucunde would see freed and restored.
Fidget
Reading Time: 3 minutesDubious captains, drones, economies built around recycled rocket boosters, and love.
Club Fiends
Reading Time: 20 minutesThe wild hunt calls, and it’s time for Ondine to depart this world, alongside her club-obsessed brothers and sisters. Yet she’s in love with a mortal – or is she? Her decision to stay or go must be made fast, for a terrible monster hunts her
Dramatis Personae
Reading Time: 4 minutesA speculative riff on T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men and the lack of interpersonal connection in the modern world. This is the way the world ends: When it can’t afford to pay the supporting cast.
Checkpoint
Reading Time: 16 minutesOn a distant planet, a young alien and his human neighbor plot to escape to the paradise known as Earth.
The Witch’s Wife
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere’s a strange game the local children play in the woods, one where there are only three things you can be: the Witch, the Witch’s Wife, or Soup.
Swatted
Reading Time: 4 minutesCara McHenry has only one chance to get a lead on her kidnapped sister, but the only ace up her sleeve is surprise . . . if she can hold her nerve.
Speed of Shadow
Reading Time: 16 minutesWhen a mysterious, dark figure keeps up with a family’s car at highway speeds, one little girl must inform her dad of the danger before it’s too late.
I Got Dem Ol’ Apocalypse Blues Again
Reading Time: 19 minutesJackson, a wanna-be bounty hunter in a post-apocalyptic city, has been hired to find the people responsible for several acts of industrial sabotage. A moral person living in a city where morality isn’t a particularly good survival trait, Jackson ends up facing a crisis of conscience.
Mortimer the Maus
Reading Time: 14 minutesIn “Mortimer The Maus,” Picco conveys the childhood terror of becoming lost in a large crowd, and the perils of being found by something else.
The Feather and the Lamp
Reading Time: 11 minutesA magic lamp should have been a gateway to Imperceptibility’s every desire. So how did she end up in the underworld covered in slobber from a three-headed dog? And then there’s capture by fanatical priest-mercenaries, sacrifice to a quantum dragon, and getting trapped in a chicken coop. Will she ever find her way back home? More important still, what’s a goose feather got to do with any of this?
Won’t You Stay Longer
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe last two humans alive strike a deal with their mysterious caretaker.
Annihilation Plan: (Mars Wars Book 3)
Reading Time: 9 minutesIf you happened to have an illegal telescope, or proxied your galaxynet address well enough to pirate your way to satellite images of Mars, you might glimpse a damaged but operational Mars Orbiter 1, alive with ‘rebels. If so, you’d be witnessing Mars Wars.
Virtually Yours
Reading Time: 12 minutesIn a world of seamless surveillance where virtual and real coalesce in a teasing dance, love is the trickster
Disgruntled
Reading Time: 4 minutesAn email subscriber becomes disillusioned and frustrated with the effects of a blog’s magical advice.
I Am Forced to Write to My Neighbor About the Beast
Reading Time: 3 minutesA woman is forced to write to her neighbors about the beast she keeps secretly in her house.
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Dancing A Balanced Weave
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere is only a slender, fragile thread between hope and despair, happiness and fear.
Mother Worked Nights
Reading Time: 5 minutesA boy struggles to come to terms with his absentee mother. His father insists it’s due to her busy work schedule, but something doesn’t seem right.
Playing House
Reading Time: 5 minutesThree sisters play a dangerous game in a house which mysteriously appeared–and which could vanish again at any moment.
Arachno Thank You
Reading Time: 5 minutesThomas makes progress with his shrink, but the process of opening up and sharing his dreams has an unintended effect.
A Susurrus of Plastic Wings
Reading Time: 4 minutesA low-level worker at a biotech company attempts to cope with the impending apocalypse.
Changeling
Reading Time: 6 minutesMarion recalls a tale her grandma told which she has never forgotten. The story of Kara O’Brien, a strange looking child who attended the village school in Connemara, Ireland, where the old lady grew up. Marion’s grandma reveals a secret that was known only by herself and her Aunt Josie. Kara O’Brien was no ordinary child.