Flash Fiction Contest!
A couple of weeks ago, we asked you to write a folklore inspired horror story based on the photo below (113 words max). Now, on this spookiest of nights, we are happy to announce the winning entry! We hope this will be the first of many more flash fiction Halloween contests to come. And the […]
Life with Prawn
When had the forest truly become her home? She couldn’t remember the exact moment. She yawned widely, watching Prawn pace up and down in front of the trees outside her hut. He glanced at her occasionally. He was bored. If only she could show him, impress on him the life that they had escaped. He […]
JELLY PEOPLE
After his manuscript on the sex life of the peripatus was rejected for the thirteenth time, Professor Devin crumpled and wrung his master copy about like a paper rattle before storming out of the scientific world for a sector that would better suit his talents: confectionery. The lab he’d dedicated to the proliferous procreation of […]
Car Wash
Gareth pulls up sharply next to the big sign and scans the options. His eyes dart, fingers tap, legs jiggle. His apparent urgency is in stark contrast to the pristine condition of his brand new, top-of-the-range Audi. “What’ll it be, boss?” asks the car wash guy with a thick accent. Avoiding eye contact, Gareth flourishes […]
Love Doesn’t Pay Bills For Vampires
I asked Mother if she loved me. Mother said love didn’t pay the bills, not even for vampires. She said it with a sad pause. She taught American and European literature (except for Dracula). Wrote stories. Took me to school. She wore a clipped smile, except when telling awkward jokes about dead poets, sucking blood […]
The butterfly effect
The day Zach was suspended because of that little shit, he headed straight for the woods. Every day for three months he’d been driving the school route with no trouble until that little sod took the usual yahooing too far and refused to sit down and stop swearing. So Zach slammed the brakes on and […]
Today is Good
It begins with a soup shop on a rainy day. The rain is as important as the soup shop, especially to the land because we’ve been in drought for years and the farmers have started to wilt and crumple like the grass. You know how grass looks almost okay from a distance, but you get […]
The Scientist and the Magician
Elena carries around a pill box dispenser in the shape of the periodic table of elements. Each little compartment contains a small but different pill. When we head out for dinner, she’s discreet about her pill popping despite nothing being discreet about a woman in fine health carrying a pill box with 118 minuscule compartments. […]