Decay by Titoxz
Decay by Titoxz In my earliest memories, everything is quiet. Not peaceful, but subdued, as if the world is holding its breath, waiting for some noise or catastrophe that never quite arrives. Even then,...
Freedom Fiction Journal An eclectic mix of all flavours of genre fiction
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April by Bill Tope
April by Bill Tope “Help me, God,” he muttered under his breath as he wiped his clean-shaven face with large hands. Eddie knew he hadn’t lost his mind. Hadn’t the county shrink declared him...
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Expiration Date by Marc Frazier
Expiration Date by Marc Frazier My ninety-year-old mother left the home and wandered into the Minotaur’s labyrinth. I heard her calling out my name as I sat on a stool in St. Anthony’s Hall...
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The Old Brass Clock by Arthur Davis
The Old Brass Clock by Arthur Davis There is a tall stone wall miles long that dates back to the Civil War near our small Virginia home. I must have passed it a hundred...
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The Check-In by Adam Taylor
The Check-In by Adam Taylor Sometimes people who receive gifts of extraordinary power do not use them for the benefit of all humanity. Most of the time, these people would be captured by the...
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Wolverine Attack by Moss Springmeyer
Wolverine Attack by Moss Springmeyer Jack’s contempt for the ghost-fear Shoulders had shown last night separated them on the toboggan like a lump of ice. At the curve, they leaned awkwardly. Something hurtled off...
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I Am Happy by Lindsey Betty
I Am Happy by Lindsey Betty I woke up one morning and decided to be happy. My alarm clock buzzed from the other side of the room, but for a moment I just lied...
Come Back To Me by Drew Concord
Come Back To Me by Drew Concord Twyla lifted the white sand in her hand and watched it fall like sparkling glass through her fingers against the lilac sky. Waves crashed on the shore,...
Live By The Side Of The Sea by C. David Ray
Live By The Side Of The Sea by C. David Ray We endured the dying of the Watchlight before Kelvin, finally, decided that he would go to feed it. Grimly, he began...
The Life Scanner (So Much More) by David MacMillan
The Life Scanner (So Much More) by David MacMillan Mike examined the old machine sitting on the floor beside him. It was from the 1940’s; at least parts of it were. It looked so...
Cupid’s Demise by Nicholas Oliver Murdock
Cupid’s Demise by Nicholas Oliver Murdock Desdemona had to do it. She had to kill that stupid, insipid, little interfering brat of a child, Cupid. It has been her one burning passion since this...
Kara’s Journey by Mike A. Rhodes
Kara’s Journey by Mike A. Rhodes ‘Hey where are we going?’ The pilot didn’t turn around. Instead the shuttle veered suddenly upwards offering a view of grey clouds through the windscreen. ‘Hey,’ Kara demanded...
Things My Mother Never Told Me by Patrick S. Smith
Things My Mother Never Told Me by Patrick S. Smith In the course of a lifetime, a person will make countless decisions. From the mundane to the critical, and it is those decisions...
Dragan Živković’s First Day On The Job by Jake Boyle
Dragan Živković’s First Day On The Job by Jake Boyle The frustrated fly dodged a succession of swatting hands before safely landing undisturbed on the hulking frame of Dragan Živković. The fly waited apprehensively...
The Man on the Pier by Otis Johnson and A. Sidrabene
The Man on the Pier by Otis Johnson and A. Sidrabene 1 DJ Tetsuo paced around the green room. Khaos Kore was playing harsh industrial. Kore’s tracks sounded muddy, like low-quality MP3’s. The song...
Peeled Paint by Lindsay Thorimbert
Peeled Paint by Lindsay Thorimbert Jake dropped his tool belt and ran through the improvised parking lot between two construction sites. The sun-cooked earth clung to his boots, billowing motes into the heat-distorted air....
Pimp by Stefan Sofiski
Pimp by Stefan Sofiski Moses bursts into the room, pushing two of his whores out the way. The air is sticky… sweat and sex. Several girls from other bedrooms have left their clients and...
