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By Sherry Cortes The guns stopped firing right as the rain did at two pm. Private Muller lit a cigarette scavenged from a nearby body—a boy, couldn’t be a day older than seventeen. Muller appreciated a moment of relative silence. Somewhere far down the line, he could still hear the big guns going, the gray [...]
31May2012 | admin | 1 comment | ContinuedExactly Where It Was
By Peter Molnar “And when the Earth shall claim your limbs, Then shall you truly dance.” -Khalil Gibran Carl Lowry would not have answered the front door to his home if he knew his daughter, Rebecca, had brought an ambush with her. He opened his front door to [...]
30May2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Return
by T.K. Wade Rile sat unusually still within the barracks of Castle Rodopolis. He seemed tense and unable to think clearly. The fight against the Black Circle had had little to no success over the last few months; however, the newly trained dragon-riders had found one of their camps, and orders had gone out [...]
29May2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Dark Place
By Chip R. Yde “Tommy you need help.” Megan told him. It was not the first time. “I’m fine.” Tommy answered into the receiver. “Real help.” Megan continued. “Like a psychologist or something.” “Psychiatrist.” It took both of Tommy’s hands to make his next drink. He shifted the phone closer to his mouth with [...]
28May2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedJust a Little Kiss
By Sarah Scharnweber Alexander put his arm around Veronica. His hand crept down her shoulder and onto her breast. She shrugged him off. “Stop.” He leaned in. “Just a little kiss?” He puckered his lips. She looked into the blue eyes she loved so much, but she hadn’t planned for this. It was their first [...]
25May2012 | admin | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Clock Twelfth Told
By Matthew Benton The Volkswagen bounced down the country road. I sat in the backseat, trying to eavesdrop on my parents conversation but between the crunching of the tires and constantly being tossed into the roof, lets just say that listening was no longer an option. I turned my attention to the window, staring out [...]
24May2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Summoned
By James Pagatpatan The body hung limply across Orlan’s shoulder. Even though it was safely contained in a thick burlap sack, the stench of death still pushed its way into his nostrils. Despite months of decomposition, the load was still heavy. Last night, when he stole away into the graveyard during the Witching hour, [...]
22May2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedCreepers
by J. Whitworth Hazzard The Xiao-Li jungle at night was deeply unsettling. It was hot as the Devil’s balls, even by moonlight. All the scurrying and slithering just out of sight in the underbrush made the grunts jittery. “Hell’s Tower, this is Bravo One. Seismic tumblers are in place,” LT reported over the radio. “We’re [...]
21May2012 | admin | 2 comments | ContinuedTemple of the Life-Giver
by Donald White They moved through thick foliage, hacking away at the clinging vines. The heat of the jungle bore down upon them and they were dripping with perspiration. Frank Dalton led the expedition, joined by his brother Jesse. The rest of the group consisted of: Pete Jenkins, the former prospector who never missed [...]
21May2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Face in the Mirror
by Donald White Sunlight glinted off the blue water, as Drake dipped his net into it. He bent over, sweat glistening on his skin. He had a muscular physique, with dark hair and eyes. As he leaned down to skim the surface of the water, while gripping the long handle… Jenna let out a sigh. [...]
20May2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedHunger Strike
By Troy Massie When I first arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, I thought it was the most beautiful place I had ever seen. The palm trees, as well as other types of trees, combined with one another to create gorgeous landscapes all around. The countless monuments, including the Lion of Judah, Tiglachin and Yekatit 12, [...]
19May2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedIron Butterfly
By Daniel G. Snethen The butterfly collector stands staring up into the mercury vapor, oblivious to congregating coleopterans on the oak board fence below. The golden glow of opossum eyes peer at him while more teeth than any other North American mammal devours an endangered carrion beetle. Butterflies are generally diurnal not crepuscular and certainly [...]
19May2012 | admin | 1 comment | ContinuedSweet Dreams
By Daniel G. Snethen Marilyn Manson keeps singing in my head Sweet dreams, sweet dreams are made of these. Blood hemorrhaging, crimson cleansing. Gushing liquid life…life knifed. Death lives, authority dies. Sweet dreams are made of these. Who am I to disagree? Who am I to disagree? Who am I? Who…am…I? I am browbeaten. I [...]
19May2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedXazanius
By Daniel G. Snethen Hominid inhabitants of Xazanius were barbarian. Evolutionarily spawned from Darwinian broth most stygian. Xazanius cohabited by denizens human and reptilian. The xanthic atmosphere a miasma extremely sulfurous. Xazanius a galactic quagmire, dark and odoriferous populated with barbaric flora and fauna carnivorous. Gargantuan beasts and plants carnivorous prey upon the relative puny [...]
19May2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedCockfight
By Daniel G. Snethen Rooster and Henny were simple Cajun folk. Rooster’s off-white greyish wife-beater barely stretched over his beer belly. Henny’s halter burst with double-D flesh, her shorts, shorter than Daisy Duke’s. Rooster, a lazy unemployed shanty bum, raised gamecocks and siphoned gas. Henny spent days slinging hash, nights tending bar, letting patrons ogle her [...]
19May2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Land of Aquarius
By Daniel G. Snethen Part I: Aquarius Water, azure like the sky. As far as the eye, water. Not like the raging Atlantic, or the frozen emerald Arctic, but winding its way, around hill and hummock, forming a vast shallow sea dotted with swards of green. Primitive, primordial paradise. The genesis of evolution. [...]
19May2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedEldritchville
By Shawn O’Toole 1. “Lost in the Storm” John Elderberry was watching television when a firm yet feminine touch squeezed and massaged his shoulders. Jill, his wife, whispered into his ear, “You’re putty in my hands.” John chuckled, “Yeah. I don’t mind.” Jill kissed his cheek then left him to his television program. [...]
17May2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Black Widow
By Stephen Roth I didn’t always have this all consuming fear that my wife was going to kill me. Once upon a time we were a happily married couple living a relatively quiet life. I was an executive for a local business and Julie did a wonderful job taking care of the home. Business was [...]
16May2012 | admin | 1 comment | ContinuedCut
By T.K. Wade “Part 1” Kate and Cindy were nearly half a mile outside of Darkwood in the northwestern region of the country. They were both seventeen-year-old girls and were the best of friends. The two of them had bundled up because it had been getting pretty cold in the late fall months, [...]
14May2012 | admin | 2 comments | ContinuedZ Day
By George W. Morrow A cool breeze swept over the Gallipoli peninsula on the evening of 8 January, 1916. This narrow, rugged strip of land located at the southwestern coast of Turkey on the Mediterranean Sea, provided the scene for some of the most terrible fighting of World War One. Planners in the British [...]
12May2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Imaginist: The Other Guest
By T.K. Wade Mary Ann Mathews quietly sat on a little, wooden stool. She had been staring outside of the window of her newly acquired bedroom for quite some time. It had been very stormy that night, and the thunderclaps had kept the poor girl awake. She sighed and watched as the water quickly ran [...]
10May2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Dead Pool
By Daniel Craig Roche On the deck, a radio played the delicate tones of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata while the wind blew the limbs of the trees back and forth, causing the shadows cascading over the decks floor boards to dance along with the notes of the music. Richard Stevens blew the last bit of [...]
9May2012 | admin | 2 comments | ContinuedFor the Love of Jenny
By Joanne Myers I don’t know why I wanted to save the life of a person I never met. Maybe it was out of loneliness after losing my wife only months earlier. Maybe it was because I was a chemist and the unusual, and unexplained, fascinated me. Or, maybe, it was because I was obsessed [...]
8May2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedAutumn Leaves
By Daniel Craig Roche Crimson autumn leaves against a black autumn sky. Mere moments away from when they will fall and soon lie. Lie on the ground where they will rest and be forgotten, or raked into a pile where they will fester – become rotten. Rot into the ground becoming food for the worms. [...]
8May2012 | admin | 1 comment | ContinuedLove and a dark corner
By Daniel Craig Roche Passionless kisses and sweet nothings in the ear. Meaningless moments embraced in each other’s arms. Her means and my means are not one in the same. Delicate touch under her frail white chin to remove her vision from the dark corner. Her attention focused now on the blinking red light. She [...]
8May2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedCrescent Moon Smiling
By Daniel C. Roche Why are we out here? I can sense something wrong. Now I sense fear, but she seemed oh so strong. Why does your light scream through the limbs of the trees? What do your words mean as they are carried through the breeze? The moon does not care, so ask it [...]
8May2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedGingerbread Man
By M. L. Erwin & T. J. Scott Marsie stares out the window of her office, located in downtown Dallas. The day is overcast and cool for July in Texas. An overcast sky always reminds her of him, the Gingerbread Man. A smile spreads across her face. “The Gingerbread Man,” she whispers. He was [...]
4May2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedCrazy Black Betty
By T. J. Scott & M. L. Erwin Scott picked up the phone. “Speak.” “Hey, Scott, it’s me, Jeff.” “Hey Jeff, how’s country life treating you? Watching the grass grow?” “Yea, pretty much. I called to let you know somebody died.” “Not your mom?” “She died last year, Scott, remember?” “Oh, yes. I’m sorry. I…” [...]
4May2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedI Love Peaches Carter And I Don’t Give a Damn
by T. J. Scott & M. L. Erwin Lonny West fluffed up his afro, making sure it was neat and round. He was eighteen years old now. Lonny lived in the black community of a small town in Texas called Haskell. The black community didn’t have much. Gin yards, dirt roads, and Peaches Carter. Peaches [...]
4May2012 | admin | 1 comment | ContinuedGloria’s Barbeque
By M. L. Erwin and T. J. Scott When had she begun to drink? She remembered experimenting with it in high school, but not for very long. Now it had become a nightly habit. She turned her television down low so she could hear his voice. She prayed not to hear it, but she [...]
4May2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedDance of the Yard Apes
By John L. Campbell Merrill Travis dropped his two-hundred-fifty pounds into a brown easy chair, cracking the framework again. He threw his weight against the back, and the footrest squealed in protest as it snapped up. Merrill propped his feet up, wiggling one toe through the hole in his right sock, grabbed the remote with [...]
3May2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Agreement
By Joanne Myers It happened on an ordinary day to an ordinary man. “Roseville?” said twenty- one-year-old college student Brice Conrad. “What a stupid name for such a hole-in-the-wall dump. Maybe one of the hicks in this hick town will tell me how to get to the freeway and to civilization.” Shoving his 1923 vintage [...]
2May2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedTrust Me
By Echo Shea Hold close to me, Don’t slip away, For you’ll be lost for good. The shadows, they will not forgive, And leave you as they should. Take my hand, And don’t let go, I’ll try to keep you safe. Follow me into this darkness; Please, make haste! Can you feel the softest draft [...]
2May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued