“Setting the Record Straight” by Susan Comford
We get a lot of bad press, you know, and none of it is warranted. For years people have been writing about “The Satanists of Kings Park” . . .
Category: Original Fiction
“Machine” by Ahsan Butt
M watched himself wake in a mirror. His hair was gone and electrodes circled his skull, their wires stripped and dangling like witch hair . . .
“The First Blow” by Tom Andes
I pass Elaine the banana bread. Oh, I’m sure she’s had a trying week, I tell her, clucking in sympathy, listening like the good friend I am . . .
“Roll Over” by Patrick Hackeling
All truth is crooked; time itself is a circle. —Nietzsche
“White Cats” by Fortunato Salazar
Had I actually just dropped Leland? The red-winged blackbirds seemed to think so. . .
“It Wasn’t Until” by Renee Lake
I have two daughters, both over the age of five. I never expected to raise boys . . .
“Twins” by Mike Toomey
You could tell by the way that they cleaned the guns that they’d been taught by the same person . . .
“Wise” by Ron Riekki
“Your first body?” “Dead one, yeah.”