THE CEMETERY’S REFLECTIONby Rory Say On a wet mid-November morning in his ninth year, an immensely traumatic event occurred in the young life of Aidan Ross. It happened in the cemetery through which he walked each weekday to and from…
TINY DANCERby Suann Amero “What is your one wish?” he asked me. I looked up into the darkest eyes I’d ever seen and I knew that all was lost. “My wish?” I asked, growing shy under his piercing gaze. …
by James Newman A tragic look at how men and women who are sent off to war often return as ghosts of their former selves, Deathdream (a.k.a. Dead of Night) is a modern take on “The Monkey’s Paw.” It’s the story of Andy…
FATHER, ARE YOU SLEEPING? by Ray Daley I couldn’t just go in there and perform the standard checks. I had to check from across the road first. I parked the car, taking my binoculars from the glove box. Initial recce.…
THE NOVEMBER KINGby Nicklas Berild Lundblad The lawyer asked me to stay after the reading of Uncle Erik’s will. He had left the small cottage on Vårholma island to me – a cottage he had built himself, and where we…
by James Newman Honeymoon holds few surprises if you know what it’s about going in. But that’s OK, because it does what it does extremely well. When our newly-married protagonists arrive at a remote cabin for their titular getaway, everything’s sickeningly-sweet pet names…
END OF THE LINEby Louise Zedda-Sampson They’re handin’ out the rations and today my baby’s there instead of me. All four-teen years of him. Six-foot-one, skin ’n bone, lanky as an unfed stray, but Davie stands in that line like…
A RIFT IN REFLECTIONby Hal Bodner (“A Rift in Reflection” originally appeared in CHIRAL MAD 3 Written Backwards, 2016) Death was not nearly the frightening experience that Phillip feared it would be. No devils awakened him into the hereafter with…
