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by Gerardo Delgadillo: My nose freezes when it goes below zero. Hate this digging gig. It’s way too late—even for the graveyard shift. Graveyard. Ha. Joel pushes his shovel in the dirt. “You helpin’?” “One sec.” I fish a smoke [...]
by O. D. Hegre: You’ve seen ‘um. Those faces you just know you’ll never forget – especially on women. Yeah, especially on a woman sporting those beautiful blue eyes like Grace Kelly or Cameron Diaz but with that aquiline nose. [...]
by Timothy Frasier: Electric sleep with stuttering images in black and white Clutching at a reality made of mist and fragile cobwebs The constant smell of ozone with the taste of copper Hiding forever in dread with fragmented memory I [...]
by Jay Newman: Where color doesn’t come, imps scurry splintered floorboards— furry, felt-pawed, webbed-footed, cloven-hooved— hollow remnants—dead puppet master—no strings attached behind moth-ball curtains of dust-painted suits and button-down cigarette burns. Waiting—smiling, unblinking—beneath grime-glossed mirrors—sinking—Morpheus night terrors outside spider-cracked windows—above— [...]
by Jay Newman: Night hums through the gaping window; a chill sifts between cracks in the blinds but cannot permeate the heat vibrations swimming through the dark, so I lay in bed with my eyes dried open, wipe a glaze [...]
by Laramore Black: Epileptic Permeance Cringing head left in shiver psychotic trombone notes splitting migraine rain quiver let the presence of noir come let me forget a while more. No One’s Listening, Jacque Fresco You aren’t prepared for quantum semantics empowered [...]
by Laramore Black: “I think my lungs are about to collapse,” this old man jokes, while lighting a cigar. “I’ve always inhaled them – to me it seemed pointless not to.” “Why’s that?” I ask. “When life hands you something with [...]
It is befitting that the art of Juan Ferreyra showcased in the Dark Horse comic Colder would give you the kind of chills that leave you feeling as icy as its protagonist Declan Thomas. The miniseries recently ended a five-issue [...]
by Kelly M. Smith: Fans of Lisa Kessler’s Night Series will remember Calisto and Kate from “Night Walker”, the story that details much (but still not enough) about how Night Walkers are created, and about how Kate was reincarnated from [...]
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