Fiction – Year VIII – Number 60 – August 2023

The Coffee Conspiracist             The Saturday morning of October 29th was one that would stay in Elbert’s memory until he was an adult, which for a seven year old was saying a lot.             The day...

Perhaps her mother had been onto something when she rambled on about why to never trust garage sales. Most people were getting rid of things for a reason, she had said. But it was...

I thought that soldiers were meant to protect people. That’s what they told me when I was built, and I was built to be the perfect soldier. A construct, they called me. It was...

Cold sweats. Shivering. Convulsions, Jack could not bear it. It was 3:00 in the morning at his Pennsylvania apartment, and he awoke to a spirit looming over him. This figure had distorted features, gazing...

Another day, another dollar.  I quickly pushed open double-doors of the hospice care with its name written in baby blue, Apple Chancery font, Angelic Hospice Care.  I race through lobby trying to get to...

Evelynn appeared when I was twelve. At first, she seemed harmless. She even gave me a strawberry popsicle. She told me she’d be my friend when times were tough, but I think she was...

“C-Could you guys remind me, why are we here again?” Korria said from the back seat.            “Like I said! We’re gonna summon aliens! Colada and I have been sticking our noses into research for...

Dusk fell upon the city of Black Gate, and in the courtyard of a castle did a well-dressed man tirelessly work. He plunged a tube-shaped device into the ground and walked twenty feet away...