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Martyrs and Monsters

by Alex Mcdermott: When you really dig into literature, you begin to see a significant difference between the novel and the short story. Novels give authors the opportunity to explore themes, characters, and plot in great depth. Short stories are [...]

Arts and Literature

Sherlock Recap: “The Blind Banker”

by Kimmie Chameleon: Sherlock Recap: “The Blind Banker” Original Air Date (BBC One): August 1, 2010 Series 1 Episode 2 Tea Time We open with a young Chinese woman named Soo Lin who is carefully polishing ancient tea clay pots [...]

Entertainment, Recaps and Previews, Sherlock (BBC)

Uncommon Cents

by Michael C. Keith: For good ye are and bad, and like to coins, Some true, some light . . .  –Lord Tennyson Eleven year-old Sammy Medford had established a rule about picking up lost pennies from the ground. If [...]

Arts and Literature, Short Fiction and Poetry

Dead Ends

by James M. Barton: At the metallic click of the doorknob Jack jerked his head toward the heavy oak door.   Outside, a grey shadow appeared through the small stained glass window. Buttoning his suit jacket, he hurried to greet [...]

Arts and Literature, Short Fiction and Poetry

Letters of Grisham Lane

by Adam Jones: PREFACE  These letters were confiscated as evidence in a national murder investigation that began in Chicago in 19XX. News reports saw very little coverage of these incidents because they were classified as highly confidential. Since then, pieces of [...]

Arts and Literature, Short Fiction and Poetry

Why Are People So Fascinated by Zombies?

by Todd Card: Zombies. What is the fascination? What is it that drives people wild about them? I intended to find out. With two separate naked, “bath salt” cannibalistic type face-eating incidents making the National news recently, I thought it [...]

Articles, Arts and Literature

Ghost Adventures Recap: “Hellfire Caves”

by Kimmie Chameleon: Ghost Adventures Recap: “Hellfire Caves” Original Air Date (Travel Channel): Friday July 13, 2012 Season 6 Episode 8 Location The crew crosses the Atlantic Ocean for a special investigation in West Wycombe, England. History Just outside of [...]

Ghost Adventures (Travel Channel), Paranormal, Paranormal Entertainment, Recaps and Previews

“Need a hero? Look in the mirror and fight ’til you have nothing left; then turn that nothing into everything you’ve ever dreamed.” -Greg Moorman

Hailing from North Hollywood, California, Aponia is an alternative rock band on the rise — recently having made their on-stage debut this June, headlining the World Famous Whisky A Go Go.  While often described as ‘vintage rock’ – a blend between [...]

Music, Music Interviews

Survival’s Cost

Reader’s Choice selection from DMC’s flash fiction group, Friday Frights. by Jeffrey Hollar: It’s too late to apologize. I feel no remorse for what I have done, though, so the sentiment would be specious. I am a man of vision, of [...]

Arts and Literature, Friday Frights, Short Fiction and Poetry