Deadlock by Lori R. Lopez I sharpen my claws for the kill. It is all I know. I was bred for this battle, this competition. For the chance to be uncaged in the arena, springing to the center amidst cheers. This will decide my fate, after languishing years in a...
Night Train by Rick Hipson Random flashes of life rush by my window and quickly fade away. Clattering down these tracks, the skin of my past is ripped from my bones and is devoured beneath the flight of my night train. A whistle screams, jolting me upright. “Ticket...
Mister Midnight by Sheldon Woodbury He’s been haunting me all my life, this eerie apparition lurking in my dreams. I named him Mister Midnight, the carver of flesh, the torturer of souls. I was deep in a writhing sleep when a taunting whisper stirred me awake, so I...
Pumpkin Chunker By Joe Nazare Gordie was crazy with the idea of visiting this rural patch ever since he found out it featured a launcher. Unfortunately, he had to wait almost all October until his support-extorting ex deigned to relinquish hold of their daughter....
Spying by Lori R. Lopez The eyes watched, rapt, unblinking. There was no sound other than the ringing of his ears. But they couldn’t hear that, the family he viewed. They went about their lives unaware, blind and deaf to his presence. He was almost part of the...
