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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 [...]

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True Blood Issue #2

by Sarabeth Pollock: True Blood #2 starts off with an investigation into Chow’s unfortunate demise.  It is the second entry in the “Where Were You” arc, and now it’s time for Eric’s story.  But before I begin, I need to [...]

Arts and Literature

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

Tunnel Torture

Reader’s Choice selection from DMC’s flash fiction group, Friday Frights. by Blaze McRob: Finite dirt particles shake loose from their moorings on the ledges above, signaling the beginning of another cycle, one more in a never ending parade of events which [...]

Arts and Literature, Friday Frights, Short Fiction and Poetry

Big Betty

Reader’s Choice selection from DMC’s flash fiction group, Friday Frights. by W. J. Howard: Ben watched as his sister Betty tipped her glass and stared at the milky coating. Desperately, she waved a straw across the bottom and slurped in every [...]

Arts and Literature, Friday Frights, Short Fiction and Poetry

Bits and Bullets

Reader’s Choice selection from DMC’s flash fiction group, Friday Frights. by K.L. Coones: This is my third body.  I’m not really human, I just look that way.  I started out in the cloud as a security program protecting the domain from [...]

Arts and Literature, Friday Frights, Short Fiction and Poetry

Foreign Exchange Student

Reader’s Choice selection from DMC’s flash fiction group, Friday Frights. by Sue Mydliak: You’d think that a small town down south would have nothing interesting happening in it…you’re dead wrong. Tommy and I were best friends, had been for years and [...]

Arts and Literature, Friday Frights, Short Fiction and Poetry

The Immoral Consequence

by G.L. Cullen: I am lost to the moonlight beyond; The circumference of the eternal waves, Leave behind a tumor of distraught and disparity; Yet no one told us. I am beyond Lovecraft’s wall of sleep, And I am beyond [...]

Arts and Literature, Short Fiction and Poetry

Initiation

by Lily Luchesi: The knife Glittering with Red rubies The same color as The blood in her veins Black onyx Like her soul Now that it has become What it is And pewter hilt Cold as her heart Covered in [...]

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