by Russ Thompson | Aug 18, 2014 | Horror in a Hundred
We have a continuation of William Morgan’s Not series with today’s submission. I hope you enjoy it: Not… by William Morgan One by one the babies disappeared. Mothers wailed and wallowed in their grief. Fathers raged against an unknown enemy....
by Russ Thompson | Aug 17, 2014 | Horror in a Hundred
Still Alive by Lydia Peever Panting, back against wide tree bark, she waited with night air drying sweat. Sticky bloody hands stayed wet much longer. Lips cracked, smiling, she realized she’d been days without water. How long till she had some to wash off the...
by Russ Thompson | Aug 16, 2014 | Horror in a Hundred
Nails by Stephen Couch The first nail was lost when he turned, arms outstretched, to lunge at the slamming steel door. The other nine were lost to the stone walls of the cell as it slowly filled with water. BIO: Stephen Couch’s fiction has appeared in such...
by Russ Thompson | Aug 15, 2014 | Horror in a Hundred
Changeling Flames By Deborah Walker Father splits wood in the falling snow. The stack grows high. There’s too much wood; although winter will be hard. Inside the house the baby cries. Mother sits in her chair, rocking, rocking, rocking. She thinks about...
by Russ Thompson | Aug 14, 2014 | Horror in a Hundred
A Life of Its Own by Terrie Leigh Relf Ma always said my tongue had a life of its own. Used to get me in a heap of trouble—‘specially when it spit out all sorts of nasty comments to our neighbors who looked at ma an’ me like we were some kind of strange. I s’pose we...
by Russ Thompson | Aug 13, 2014 | Horror in a Hundred
Skins By Deborah Walker Fox and rabbit, chinchilla and mink. Each city brings Lily new skins. Daddy McGee wants Lily, and payment isn’t payment when it’s a gift. That lie sits nicely in Daddy’s head, pushing out thoughts of deals gone sour, hooch...
