After-Life, by Diego Valdez
Tony came because my mother had been a valuable customer. I guess there’s no other way to describe a woman who’s dropped that kind of coin. He hadn’t changed much since the last time I’d seen him...
View Article“Where Time Dies” from Erased to be Remembered, by Brandon Arthur
Mountains fall into a valley; a bridge collapses into a river. A crooked worm noses into the split core of an apple and into the darkness of flesh … The world and his mind are blotted and muffled but...
View ArticleSilence – A Fable, by Edgar Allen Poe
ALCMAN. The mountain pinnacles slumber; valleys, crags and caves are silent. “LISTEN to me,” said the Demon as he placed his hand upon my head. “The region of which I speak is a dreary region in Libya,...
View ArticleNaked Astronaut, by W.Y. Johnson
A naked man wearing nothing but an astronaut’s helmet walks down a lonely stretch of highway. I first see him up ahead as a tiny speck, but each second brings more clarity in my vision. On an empty...
View ArticleSweet Dreams, by Gregory K.H. Bryant
(From “…Sequences – Scripts for Animated Shorts”) (3-4 minutes) (soundtrack – silence for the first full minute – the suspicion comes to us that there is a problem with the audio track – faintly,...
View ArticleChapter III from “On The Graves of Dragons: A Journal of Sex, Elf Dust, and...
Chapter III: The Lady Is A Tramp I had no time to waste, my lack of pants be damned. Magick is often unpredictable, and there was no way to know how long the passageway would stay open. What I did …...
View Article“Going My Way?” by D.L. Legere
“It’s not like I don’t deserve to be here—” I trailed off, bracing myself as another of the frequent sandstorms raged. On an open highway, with no shelter in sight, there was little I could do against...
View Article“Reckoning,” by Chris McCreary
Not so simple being both asp & then caduceus, this falling always headlong into Eiffel or under Acropolictic ruin. Today our man is feeling semi- pseudo, only somewhat so, & so he...
View ArticleBathroom Battles, by Arthur Davis
He thinks he can hide from me, but I have seen his type before. They’re all alike; hideously malevolent creatures who swarm in the night and impose themselves onto places once thought to be...
View ArticleArtwork by Volodymyr Bilyk
***** Volodymyr Bilyk was born in the Ukraine and has a degree in journalism. He is considered to be one of the few representatives of the so-called Ukrainian Extreme Literature. Besides being a...
View ArticleSpace Emperor, by Daniel Shkolnik
I. Bare-chested on a witch’s rooftop in the gloaming of the volcanic sun, I screamed to make eternity know me. (But scared a flock of pigeons off the roof.) I cried to make the gutters gush me and...
View ArticlePost-coital Heroin: Chapter IV from “On the Graves of Dragons” by Raelin Saretti
Fabulous legs or not, these stiletto heels were straining and pulling my calf muscles tighter than an elf’s asshole. Word travels fast in the underground, especially when money is involved and I had...
View ArticleThe Imp in the Armchair, by Brandon Sorce
It was the kind of nightmare you wake up from with something on your chest. Literally, it felt like this time. I let out a short gasp and coughed; I smelled old cigarettes. I don’t smoke—had I had...
View ArticleFabio Takes Me to the Cages Out Back by Jess Alfaro
I put on another layer of repellant and starblock. Fabio leads me from headquarters, then jaunts off on his rounds. His arm points me down the path toward the newest find. What hits me first: the...
View ArticleLitter, by J.M.M. Carlson
i. neon lights flutter nervously in the oily sky in predictable dystopian fashion an interminable flow of men coalesces and like sand particles scattered by the water jet of light, disappears...
View ArticleTwo poems by Chris Bullard
Free Willy as a Cryptic Reference to Free Will We freed it from a sandbar a kennel insolvency an evil stepmother, but the damned thing refused to swim out to sea bark write thank-you notes marry. It...
View ArticleThe Gates of H.E.V.N., by David Kavanaugh
Applicant no. 26,672,313,008 Davien V. Fairweather: DOB – September 5, 2991 The Honorable Judge “Betasoft Model 888, OS 112” presiding… Q1: Mr. Fairweather, why do you believe you deserve...
View ArticleVoid, by Zachary Woodard
They say that the fear of the water is an irrational one, but I have never agreed with that. It amazes me that people can see water as just another thing, to be held or seen or imbibed. Water …...
View ArticleGraves to Cradle, by Ahimaaz Rajesh
(..) Toby stood outside the field, her feet buried to a pond, and a slingshot away green and dry stood: … Read More →
View ArticleChange in I, by J. Rohr
Like most physicists, Melinda Barrow never mattered to the public. Not until she learned to see through time. The … Read More →
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