by Russ Thompson | Jul 18, 2014 | Horror in a Hundred
Outsmarting the Shadows By Russ Bickerstaff The shadows slice through the reverse geometry of respiration. Walk the streets in the day and they mockingly follow everything, but if you see them at night, you’ll notice the little inconsistencies. They move ever so...
by Russ Thompson | Jul 17, 2014 | Horror in a Hundred
Parody by Sydney Leigh “I can show you my face,” it dared. Shapes of words dripped from serous holes and writhed in puddles at my feet. “But you might not like it.” Something it had said? slithered up my leg, sucked my skin like a leech. What could be worse...
by Russ Thompson | Jul 17, 2014 | Horror in a Hundred
Forest Born By Deborah Walker First published in Necrotic Tissue 2010 Michael’s footsteps falter when he sees the woman shedding her rough coat of bark and stepping naked into the fleckered forest. Stripped of her garment, she is pale ivory wood. A newborn nymph,...
by Russ Thompson | Jul 16, 2014 | Horror in a Hundred
Turnabout by Lori R. Lopez The door creaked. They managed to enter without waking him. Breaths tautly held, the children tiptoed through shadows, reaching the room where he sawed wood in a heavy doze. The pair knelt, alert for groaning springs or any fluctuation to...
by Russ Thompson | Jul 15, 2014 | Horror in a Hundred
Venus Hurdy Gurdy By Deborah Walker A version of the story first published in Twisted Tongue 2010 Alice dances at the Venus Bar. She loses herself in the movement and the music. The lights are so bright that she can’t see the customers, but she can hear...
by Russ Thompson | Jul 14, 2014 | Horror in a Hundred
Reward by Stephen D. Rogers Our dog came home with the leash in his mouth. My husband wasn’t at the other end. I walked the streets calling his name. I talked to neighbors. I filed a report. I posted flyers on telephone poles offering a $100 reward. Someone who...
