Fiction

The Closing Shift

by Imani Felder
The Closing Shift
Dino’s Café was stuck between a gas station and a dance studio. The building had been there since anyone could remember. If anything, it’s been there...
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Reclamation

by Colby Galliher
Reclamation
In a once-logged forest in the northern reaches of the Blue Ridge a mountain laurel colony thrives across measureless acres. The stronghold’s every molecule is poisonous…
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Buried Alive

by R. Craig Sautter
Buried Alive
They tried to bury me alive, back in high school during my Junior Year, and it still scares the bejesus out of me when I think about it…
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Wolf Song

by Matthew Gall
Wolf Song
“I just can’t get the song out of my head, doc.” The man complained. I sighed. This was my 7th case today about auditory hallucinations…
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Head Case

by Bill Tope
Head Case
Standing on the parking lot of the little strip mall, Trevor Baker leaned on his push broom and waxed philosophical. He glanced at the clock tower...
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Snow Woman

by Hilary Ayshford
Snow Woman
Winter is her time: time to revel in the cold, to dance on the drifts and glide on the wind. Seven long months Yuki-onna retreated with the thaw to her ice cave…
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Watching Christine

by Emma-Sunshine Mackereth
Watching Christine
I sit down at my computer, ready to watch Christine. The 24/7 livestream of her life on the platform “Viewer” feels like it’s consuming me these days…
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Tokens of Darkness

by Michelle Trantham
Tokens of Darkness
Selena had been the first to leave him, the only one the darkness had let escape from the house unscathed. He’d loved her. He’d loved them all…
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I See Everything

by Ian O Grady
I See Everything
Whenever I heard that all familiar sound of the door opening I would get so excited. Molly had taken her two young sons to soccer practice, while I…
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The Annual Halloween Progressive Dinner

by Maggie Nerz Iribarne
The Annual Halloween Progressive Dinner
In the bathroom of the first party, the appetizer house, an orange candle burned on the windowsill, its weak flame struggling to survive. Lori, wine-buzz settling...
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