Fiction
• At Aurora Wolf: "In Absentia Rex" by Traverse Wolverston.
"Sliding into a chair across from me, the detective leaned forward; his scent was stale cologne and stress-induced sweat. What sort of pieces of work had sat in this chair before me? What hooligans and deviants had he stared down just that morning?"
• At Nightmare Magazine: "10/31: Bloody Mary" by Norman Partridge. Horror.
"The boy isn’t very large. The way things are these days, he figures that’s a plus. He is less of a target at night, and for this reason he has come to trust the darkness. Strange to trust darkness in a world overrun with nightmares . . . but that’s the way it is."
At Revista de Suspans:
• "Donald Meets Arnold" by Elizabeth Massie: Horror.
"He didn’t like to run. He didn’t like to walk. It made him wheeze, and wheezing was uncomfortable. He didn’t like to stand, because it made his hips hurt. He didn’t like the way his puffy feet felt when pressed to the ground, or the way his calves throbbed when asked to hold his body upright."
• "Through Heavy Veils of Dreaming" by Alexandru Dan. Horror.
"I don’t know about your dreams, but I find comfort mostly in a rather gloomy world, where the evenfall and the night pass their time; and if you ask me about the colors that enliven it, as puzzled as I’d be, I’d be answering: Rather, what’s between color and non-color…"
• At Tor.com: "Wakulla Springs" by Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages.
"Wakulla Springs. A strange and unknown world, this secret treasure lies hidden in the jungle of northern Florida. In its unfathomable depths, a variety of curious creatures have left a record of their coming, of their struggle to survive, and of their eventual end"
Flash Fiction
- At Daily Science Fiction: "The Gifts: Part Two" by Mari Ness. Fantasy.
- At 365 Tomorrows: "Snuff Artist" by Carter Lee. Science Fiction.
- At Yesteryear Fiction: "The Kitchen Table" by Beth J. Whiting. Fantasy.
• At Cast of Wonders: "Camp Myth: Phoenix Watching - Chapter 2" by Chris Lewis Carter. YA Fantasy.
"Last week you met Felix, the protagonist of our story. Felix is obsessed with the human world, and he offered to tell you this story in exchange for learning more about human history. Did you take him up on it? Let’s see what Felix has to tell us this week."
• At Nightmare: "10/31: Bloody Mary" by Norman Partridge, read by Stefan Rudnicki. Horror.
"The boy isn’t very large. The way things are these days, he figures that’s a plus. He is less of a target at night, and for this reason he has come to trust the darkness. Strange to trust darkness in a world overrun with nightmares . . . but that’s the way it is."
• At StarShipSofa: "Cassandra" by C.J. Cherryh. Science Fiction.
"The gift of prescience, rather than a blessing, is a curse for Cassandra that she cannot control. She sees the future all the time and cannot turn it off. She leaves her burning apartment each morning and heads for the bombed-out coffee shop, passing charred corpses on the way. She knows it's going to happen but can do nothing about it." (Wikipedia) 1979 Hugo Award Winner for Best Short Story.
Other Genres
- Fiction at HiLobrow: "The Zayat Kiss - Part 4" by Sax Rohmer. Noir.
- Fiction at the The Western Online: "Jehrico's Tub - Part 1" by Tom Sheehan. Western.
- Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "Silent Songs" by Cathie Menon.
- Poem at Leaves of Ink: "Misted Desire" by Ron Koppelberger.
