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...
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 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 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 ‘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 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 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 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...
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...
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 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...
Liminal Lives by Daniel Roush 3 p.m. Wednesday Marty needed three things to make it through the day. First, a strong alarm, the kind that would shake the whole apartment down if left on...
World and I by Miranda Forster Much of a frog’s life is spent in perfect stillness, resting and waiting and sensing. And some of a frog’s life is spent flying at breakneck speed. Log...
The Death Boy by David Alan Richards The landscaper didn’t want to be a kid. That had been rough. He wanted to raise a kid, but the married life had never been for...
The Rinse by Nicholas Woods The First Day Of The End Of The World I often wondered, why me?Why do we exist when we do?Our time on this one Earth, chosen at random.Why me?Why...
Low-hanging Fruit by Christopher Narvaez Cere feels the steady rapping of her heart against her ribs as she nears the edge of the property. The air is thick with tension, and the breeze is...
Only The Best, Only For You by Kofi Nyameye Frank Lassen, aka Frankie Luxe, had been in business for a long time, and in all that time some of the best advice he had...
Neurosis by Titoxz He had never found solace in this world, for he knew with a gnawing certainty deep within that he was not fashioned for it. The universe, he believed, was engaged in...
Aelfread’s Tale by Noah Canniff The wavering light of the autumn sun glistened through the canopy of the trees above, showering the ground with a weak orange light that complimented the brilliantly colored leaves...