Dani Arieli
Across the Marsh
Nobody batted an eye while the man with the carrion-crow mask handed the little girl flowers of violet. Not even the young farmhand, who...
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M.S. Blues
Sep 202 min read
just a little word 'bout the damned
the damned stands before her ʻāina , repressed tears embellish her limpid eyes as she overlooks the lavender, melancholy skies, ...
H.M. Shrike
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Hexenhaus
Letter from Wolfgang Jakob Welsch to his friend Julius Hofmann, 1627. Translated from the original German by Dr. Angela Windsor, 2009. My...
A.K. McCarthy
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Hooves
“Tell me a bedtime story, mother,” the child says. “What kind of story?” the mother asks. “One of your scary ones. One about the...
Robyn Thomas
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The Listeners
October 15, 2043 I’ve been accepted! By train and boat we journey to join the other initiates. We’re allowed three final phone calls –...
Stephen A. Roddewig
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In Him, We Know Freedom
The mirror showed a reflection that wasn't my own. It was a boy with smooth skin and cheeks creased from smiles. A certain sheen glinted...
Kendra Recht
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Fall
Zephiel used to like Purgatory. He’d enjoyed shepherding souls to redemption, purifying the reformed, and even overseeing the delicate...
Reneé Bibby
May 1711 min read
Greetings from Costa Rica
The first photo pings Luka’s phone at 11:27 am, while he’s scrolling through Zillow listings of houses in Sun City that he can afford but...
Jacob Strunk
May 174 min read
The Savior of Battery Island
From where you crouch, the city is a swarm of lights. You hear the horn of the final ferry and know it carries the day’s last tourists....
Jaymee Thomas
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Abyssward Uprising
They sit sallow in dourness, barely a ghostfire stays illumed in the depthless height of jealous Seraphim. They are grooming nits and...
Nick Young
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Malédiction
It would not be found on any tourist map, but ask the locals; they could tell you. In the dark heart of St. Martin Parish, east of New...
Zary Fekete
May 1714 min read
Lidérc
The two holy men traveled by day, each of them on their own mule, riding slowly through the grass, until they came to the cabin in the...
Isabella Frederick
Mar 1511 min read
Anthemusa
Part I: Their ship wasn't meant for oars, but they brought them above deck anyway. They tied the sails down, securing them with ropes to...
Frank William Finney
Mar 151 min read
Goth Garage
Dank thurible of oil and pine; A congregation draped in dust: paddles, oars, and mouldy sails; surfboards, lawn chairs, bits and bobs....
Jacob Smith
Mar 152 min read
The Trick
Upon his departure from his horrible, sinful life, he was not greeted by fire and brimstone. There was not light, there was not the...
Tim McDonald
Mar 155 min read
Middle Class Christmas
The hills of home were hewn with gray—gray, gray, gray—haunting gray. Their house stood silent, still, upon the hill—it never...
Ron Tobey
Mar 152 min read
On Viewing 'Winged Victory of Samothrace' at Musée du Louvre
Magnificent Niké alights upon a plinth of stones her huge wings of blue the wrapped mantle of fine linen around her legs hemmed in blue...
Edilson Afonso Ferreira
Mar 151 min read
Comrades on the Road
I believe there is a conspiracy ongoing involving all of us. I don’t know when or where it began, nor who initiated it. They occult from...
J. David Liss
Jan 193 min read
Red Delicious
He dreamed the red dream of blood falling in rivers from a cliff. He stood beneath, drinking it, knowing he would never be hungry again....
Jared T. Wilkerson
Jan 191 min read
His Sword Shone Brightly
His sword shone brightly, as I drew my own. May God forgive me. I had never fought one, so bold, and so knightly who held the throne. His...
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