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Acid Death

by David Frazier:   Drank it down. The horrible drink, Burned all the way From my mouth,   To my stomach. Acid hydrochloric I think. Poison liquid in glass bottles Drops can eat steel plate.   Eating, burning, Chews a [...]

Arts and Literature, Short Fiction and Poetry

The Post Modern Prometheus

by Phillip Donnelly: First Officer’s Log Oil Platform ARCTIC 5 November 04 Crew increasingly restless. Fight broke out at Dusk +1 between Flynn and Singh. Had to use stun guns used to incapacitate them. Were threatening each other with Swiss army [...]

Arts and Literature, Short Fiction and Poetry

A Pack of Wolves

by Alex Mcdermott: Horror authors are always looking for that new edge on a classic monster. Whether it’s the sparkling vampire or the mutated chemical beast, readers do not want the same tales retold. Eric S. Brown puts his spin [...]

Arts and Literature

The Evil Visitor

by Alex Mcdermott: As horror writers search for that “new” monster to grab readers, they dig deeper and deeper into the depths of their imaginations. Authors give us mutants, chemical monsters, sparkling vampires, and an odd assortment of other creature [...]

Arts and Literature

Blood Related

by Alex Mcdermott: Somewhere in the 1970s, serial killers hit the media. Was it really all Manson? Or was it the bizarre Zodiac Killer who vanished without a clue? Who knows, but they made a splash. Then came the 1980s [...]

Arts and Literature

These Old Tales: Volume One (A Collection of Dark Fiction)

by Alex Mcdermott: Short story collections scare me a little. An anthology, with a multitude of authors, is sure to contain something that catches your attention. But staring down the pages of a single author and a whole bunch of [...]

Arts and Literature

Deadlocked

by Sarabeth Pollock: Sookie Stackhouse is back in Charlaine Harris’s newest release in the Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Series.  The King of Nevada, Felipe de Castro, has descended upon Shreveport in an attempt to discover how his agent and fellow [...]

Arts and Literature

Stale Heroes Tell the Same Old Story

by Phillip Donnelly: WHAT’S NEW? There is nothing new under the sun, at least not in the world of fiction. We are all, it would appear, either listening to or retelling the same old story. Every hero you can think of, [...]

Articles, Arts and Literature

Medium Medium

by Duke Droste: The neon palm stood out to him as Jack drove southbound on the four-lane thoroughfare.  He knew it existed, but it never offered him more than a fleeting curiosity.  When he returned the same way north, it [...]

Arts and Literature, Short Fiction and Poetry