admin

YOUR FUNGAL HEARTby Spencer Nitkey The wishers tell you your heart is too fungal. You are spore-fallen. Rot and rhizome where there should be flower and trunk. You’d come to them for comfort, at the insistence of your grove who…

THE CREATURE AT THE CENOTE by Jamie Lackey Red twilight seeped across the jungle like blood into packed dirt.  Ehecatl knelt on the path and examined smudged tracks.  His torch cast flickering shadows, and the tracks slithered from side to…

A BARE MINIMUM OF EFFORT by Brandon Applegate John snakes his arm under the covers reaching for Cassie. She isn’t there. Gone to check on the baby. John grimaces. He never hears the baby crying. He’s always been a sound…

The Shark in Her Bellyby Patrick Barb When Mom returned from her girls’ weekend at the beach, she had a shark growing in her belly. I didn’t know this at first. After all, her skin hadn’t stretched. Her belly hadn’t…

BORN OF NIGHT, WITHOUT WARNING by Christopher O’Halloran The blade of her knife was sharp, but there was little weight to it; she had to really push to slide it in between radius and ulna. Removing her hand wasn’t easy.…

A CONJUNCTION OF ELEMENTS by Rohini Mori Noon was a beast. Sunlight slithered through the open window, setting the room ablaze. Khor shifted, the hard wooden seat gripping his buttocks like an unfamiliar lover. Outside, the sounds of Singapore carried…

LIGHT THE WAY by Elena Laskowski In the bogland, everything is as it was ten years ago. The trees provide coverage for the swampy grounds; a forested wetland with connecting pools of algae-water and paths of dampened grass grown wild…

TIME OF DEATH by Trey Stone I met him in the back of an ambulance at 3 a.m., with four stab wounds in my chest and a punctured lung. He had a hooked nose, three days’ worth of stubble, and…