His eyes blinked like a machine gun’s stutter. He swirled his Chivas and mumbled something—I couldn’t hear it well over the racket of wild fucking in the bedroom. Maybe he said, “Mother would never have written that.”… more
Tag Archives: Fiction
Storm Coming
Fiction by Thomas Kent WestOn the ledge, the short man looked down. He felt the lonely tent behind him. In front of him, there was the storm, moving black and slow.… more
We’re Proud of You, Darling
Fiction by Jake WilliamsI take the handle of the vice and turn it clockwise. It’s so close to my eyes it’s out of focus. The screw turns a little and the sliding jaw presses against the left side of my head. I breathe out as much as I can in one go. I hold the nothing as long as I can before I breathe in again. It’s part of the ceremony.… more
Quick Math
Fiction by Paul RousseauDarrell stared at the room placard just below the peephole until his sight went out of focus. He made the numbers 404 transform, they shuffled and stretched, elastic, until they spelled out their true meaning as Darrell saw them. A warning: Death O’Death.… more
Tacet
Fiction by Joe Ponepinto“This next piece shall be about silence,” he said. “A pure and simple quietude.”… more
Both Nasty and Biblical
Fiction by Jared PovandaIt was what they had both wanted. Pulsing club music. Alan’s hands on the man’s hips. A bright smile with a wicked hook. When they kissed, it had been more like crashing. Collision.… more
Eat Me
Fiction by Matthew Zanoni MüllerEveryone loved to bite me, to take little pieces of me whenever they felt like it.… more
Kiss Those Days Goodbye
Fiction by Kevin BigleyAn old man is confronted with an existential terror encroaching upon his land.… more
One Hundred Knives
Fiction by Josh DaleI made a rule in the old apartment not to answer the phone during exercise time, but this was a new house, my house. I make a new rule, pull the phone out.… more
