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...
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ASTRAL FEARS by Dylan Ward
ASTRAL FEARSby Dylan Ward
On an icy Christmas morning Hunter is frozen in front of the Orion SpaceProbe. It gleams black in the winter light, like a mystical entity electrifying the speechless boy. When he...
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...
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...
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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...
THE DYING ROOM by Vince Barry
THE DYING ROOMby Vince Barry
“Nervous,” my wife goes, I think, ’cause she’s in the laundry room, which comes off the garage and is narrow and low beamed; so, if somebody says something, let...
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...
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....
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 BOY IN RED by Sean J.H. Rubin
THE BOY IN REDby Sean J.H. Rubin
JOSEPHINE
The concert took place outside the kindergarten. Blue spruce strove to survive the prolonged dry days of Armenian summer, but the war had not helped. Dawn's light shone...