Franken Cat by Doug Hawley
Franken Cat by Doug Hawley I’ve been fairly happy since I re-animated Wendy. She wanted to leave me to get back to her bad boys after the first time I brought her back to...
Fiction
Homelessness by Frederick K Foote
Homelessness by Frederick K Foote Six pm in the kitchen of the Wheeler family consisting of Talbot, forty-five, his wife, Lexi, forty-two, their daughter Kia, twelve, and their son, Koy, age ten. Talbot’s father,...
The Lesson by D.W. Davis
The Lesson by D.W. Davis I went to Kalil’s to get some smokes and a pint. It’s a block from my apartment, cheap, and he doesn’t judge. Kalil is a man of the...
Surkow’s Fantasy by Mark SaFranko
Surkow’s Fantasy by Mark SaFranko Tuesday. Pete Surkow checked himself in the bathroom mirror like he did every day. He tilted his head a little this way, then a little that way. Not...
War Hero by Ralph Benton
War Hero by Ralph Benton Even under a fat layer of duranium Trooper ‘Lab Rat’ Reed trembled as he strapped himself into the driver’s pod of the tokatank called Nightmare. While death in a...
Whistle Stop by James D. Fratto
Whistle Stop by James D. Fratto We met three years ago in The Hague. I was on faculty leave, conducting research at the Gemeentemuseum, on Dutch women artists. Jeffrey Landers was a reporter from...
Panorama – The Night Owl Superhero by Jon Moray
Panorama – The Night Owl Superhero by Jon Moray “Where do we set up camp?” asked Conrad, the eager camper that just earned a degree in Wildlife Science. “Just a few hundred yards more....
Mistaken Identity by M.A. De Neve
Mistaken Identity by M.A. De Neve “It was a pleasure to meet you,” the funeral director shook Laura Shane’s hand. “Thanks, so much,” she said. He’d been a godsend. Laura didn’t know what she’d...
A Woman Named Dixie by Leroy B. Vaughn
A Woman Named Dixie by Leroy B. Vaughn The waitress stopped wiping the counter, as she watched the old pickup truck that had just pulled up to the front of the diner in Sunizona,...
Red Lights by Danielle Ramaekers
Red Lights by Danielle Ramaekers Suspended in front of her face was a small creature radiating a soft red light. Not too glary, but enough to illuminate from its head down to its tiny...
