CHEAP DATE IDEA: DEFILING A GRAVE by Michael Gillen
CHEAP DATE IDEA: DEFILING A GRAVEby Michael Gillen
The sun was transiting Capricorn, his tarot reading that morning was an upright star, and he had done self-affirmations all morning. David was ready to put himself...
THE LADY WITH THE TWENTY-FIVE-LETTER ALPHABET by Richard Rose
THE LADY WITH THE TWENTY-FIVE-LETTER ALPHABETby Richard Rose
The bookshop had been quiet for most of the morning but on hearing the bell signifying that a potential customer was entering, Mr Hope glanced towards the...
POSSESSED by Andrea Carlisle
POSSESSEDby Andrea Carlisle
Jane became aware of someone coming up close behind her in the crowded checkout line, so close she could hear breathing. When she turned to look, she saw a pale, thirty-something woman...
GRAVITY by Yvette Schnoeker-Shorb
GRAVITYby Yvette Schnoeker Shorb
The two professors might as well have been talking in another language, for their conversation was most definitely beyond the interests of those who considered themselves ordinary. The Comparative Literature and...
TAMALANE ОF PETROGRAD by Virginia Marybury
TAMALANE OF PETROGRADby Virginia Marybury
Of all the flat, marshy edges of western Petrograd, nowhere was as haunted by former people as St Basil’s Island, that diamond delta in the river’s throat. One cold November...
WATCHING by Leandro Almeida
WATCHINGby Leandro Almeida
Have you ever gotten the feeling someone is watching you? Those chills down your spine? That sense of unease, or the prickling on your neck? Objects no longer in the spots you...
TWO WORLDS by Loren Sundlee
TWO WORLDSby Loren Sundlee
The sand slips away so gradually from the huts to the sea one might think that little more than a high tide could be one’s immersion and destruction. Aubrey Calland...
OH MADELINE by Lynn Dowless
OH MADELINEby Lynn Dowless
The rhythmic melody of the seductive sirens' whispering chant rode upon the midday wind. Inviting, enticing, hexing, seizing hold of mortal mind, invading the very heart, and capturing the very...
ENTER JOSIE by Joseph Austin
ENTER JOSIEby Joseph Austin
Enter Josie. A raven-haired beauty with blue eyes sprinkled with saffron. Barbara knew her kind the moment her son, Darren, brought her through the front door. This girl looked like trouble....
LEGEND OF THE MAGIC WOK by Lynn Dowless
LEGEND OF THE MAGIC WOKby Lynn Dowless
John Burman was as sporter. The label, sporter, was a euphemism on the phrase, front line soldier, on this new arm of the free born people called, The Patriot's Liberation Front. To...