Torn by Ryan Price The rain was back, coming soft then hard. Rix stood outside letting the rising water soak his shoes. He wondered if the carp gators from the flooded river would come to him, if the worms swimming through the river would crawl up his clothes and bury...
The Aliens Deliver Us From Evil by Michael Czyzniejewski Two things about these new aliens were clear from the start: They came in peace and they came naked. Not really naked naked, because they were dressed, but we could see everything. All of their clothes were...
The Feejee Mermaid Falls to Earth by Heather Diamond Look at this strange creature, she says. My elderly mother is leaning over one of the potted rosebushes she keeps on her deck to protect them from the deer. I think it’s some kind of frog. She points at a pinkish...
Patroness by Lauren Barbato The patronesses are throwing a party for Petronilla, who’s spent the last three months in rehab recovering from an eating disorder. It was a hasty starvation. Petronilla had gone and locked herself up in her father’s attic for eight days....
A Healing by August Evans The student steered the Great Writer down the floors of the university parking garage, past a booth where she inserted a white ticket into a mouth that spit it back into her hand, under a wooden arm as it rose, and onto a wide, black road...
Brian the Lion Hunter by John Oliver Hodges Brian built a chicken coop in Hornville and stocked his coop with chickens, but the Hornville wives complained of the smell. Worse than the chickens were the dogs. They barked and whinnied and fussed while Brian and Natalie...
