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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...

Edilson Afonso Ferreira
Mar 15, 20241 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....

J. David Liss
Jan 20, 20243 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...

Jared T. Wilkerson
Jan 20, 20241 min read


Lagnogard Awaits
Lagnogard, balancing on her scaly tail atop one of the many sandstones jutting from the beach, stretched out each of her stubby green...

J. J. Sherman
Jan 20, 20247 min read


The Veins of Brutus
I have not felt the comfort of sleep since my third death. It’s been twenty, maybe twenty-five days since I last tasted the stain of the...

Nick Badot
Jan 20, 20248 min read


Prank
Outside it’s snowing. Again. Hard. Already new-white blankets the off-white of last week’s storm on the campus of our mid-sized college...

Frank Diamond
Jan 20, 202413 min read


Hall of Mirrors
I once studied in the hall of mirrors, kept my back to the reflections. I never recognize myself anyway. I looked out the wall of windows...

Shana Ross
Jan 20, 20241 min read


Pipe Dream
I waited for Dr. Pendleton in one of the many uncomfortable wooden chairs in the foyer, a glass of champagne bubbling gently on the table...

Brian Gatti
Jan 20, 20248 min read


Vampires Anonymous
My name does not matter anymore. Who I was and what I am have become one and the same: I am hungry and I have been hungry for so long now...

Jim Murdoch
Jan 20, 20241 min read


Atlantic Hunting Grounds
Sailing the chill waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the cargo ship MS Harper was the only speck of brightness in the vast moonless night....

Glenn Bresciani
Jan 20, 20243 min read


Details
“Why do my minions have to be such damned idiots?” Though chapped beyond all patience (admittedly, a low threshold in his case), he grins...

James Fowler
Jan 20, 20242 min read


Conception of the Demigod
For you, I’d stand sacrificial on the plinth, neck first. Perhaps the gravest worship Is an oncoming death. My willingness to Spill. I...

Jordan Davidson
Jan 19, 20241 min read


The mugwort leaves beneath
my head speak to my soul from under my pillow. I drink the occult of the night as dreams of Goddess Artemis surface. In a forest, among...

Helen N. Hill
Nov 18, 20231 min read


Road Trip
The road ahead slithers like a giant black serpent in restless desert night Fingers drum on the wheel to the beat of his demons, as...

Terry Chess
Nov 18, 20231 min read


Devil's Anvil
I am the devil’s anvil he beats on me daily it doesn’t hurt all that much you get used to it and the pounding drowns out all the white...

Paul Smith
Nov 18, 20231 min read


On the Border
How many borders exist within a single universe…what is the one true, crucial border? —Jenny Erpenbeck Close to my house, a five-story...

Lenore Weiss
Nov 18, 20231 min read


Des Arc Elegy
She was angry with her mother. The boys were going to Big Creek to swim and she wasn’t allowed. She was ten. It wasn’t fair. The only...

Peggy Nalls
Nov 18, 20235 min read


Stumbles, Ambushes, and Spells
‘Yo no creo en brujas, pero que las hay, las hay’ (Galicia’s cruel saying) There was a thief that a bad luck set him on the way to your...

Edilson Afonso Ferreira
Nov 18, 20232 min read
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