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THE CURE FOR ANYTHING by Nik Sylvan You’d think a butterfly that could drain your sorrows would be big and flashy, but the insect Sam showed me in her greenhouse was small and brown. I’d have thought it was a…

COSMIC HORROR CLEANERS, LLC by Jason P. Burnham To hide the residual scent of eldritch creatures in the homes she cleaned, Ashley always lit a few candles. The struck matches gave plausibility to acrid sulfur, and the vanilla candles covered…

ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE by Adam Newnham At the end of the first year, we despaired. Legion seethed over us, beyond counting, no two alike. They belched into being with their burned sugar stench, some shimmering ephemerally, some squatting…

WHEN THE NIGHTMARE ENDS by Robert Stahl Heather wakes in the morning and stretches out into the cool, soft sheets, feeling amazing — until she sees the tarantula on the bed. It’s a big one. Furry. Black. She can see…

THE MAGICby Karl El-Koura Where’s Sophie? Face-down in the pool, her golden hair floating around her. Where’s dada? (She still called him that, even at three, the same word she’d used for him since she’d first learned to speak.) Dada’s…