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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]