Erik Grove | Home
One could, if necessary, hide between the studs in your wall. Shoulders, narrower than the gap. Back against the plywood of the exterior panel; chest, when fully inflated with breath, pressing against the lath and plaster. Room enough to disappear. This was mine before it was yours. Single story 1920s bungalow, three bedrooms, an unfinished basement and an attic crawlspace. Flower beds in the front. Garden space in the backyard. In the door frame of the second bedroom, lines scratched to mark the top of a growing boy’s head. | ©2023 by Erik Grove. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Millie Ho | A Moonlit Savagery

Millie Ho | A Moonlit Savagery

My eyes snap open at night. I float out of the tunnel under the concrete wall and settle on the roof of the abandoned hostel. The starry chaos of Yaowarat stretches before me like rows of crowded teet...

22 Huhti 202034min

Benjamin Peek | See You on a Dark Night

Benjamin Peek | See You on a Dark Night

W--- went to the vampire club a couple of nights after E---’s death. It was on M--- Street, in an oddly-shaped bar. When W--- gazed at it from the outside, when he stared through the dirty windows and...

8 Huhti 202047min

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor | Flashlight Man

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor | Flashlight Man

The legend of Flashlight Man began in the upper Midwestern United States, grounded in rural areas. A variation on mirror summoning, it went like this: you lie on your back in bed, your face turned tow...

18 Maalis 202015min

Benjamin Percy | A Study in Shadows

Benjamin Percy | A Study in Shadows

One of Dr. Harrow’s survey groups included a church known as The Dawn Triumphant. The congregation believes we are living in a time of punishing darkness. Half of them were told to sit in a bright roo...

4 Maalis 202019min

‘Pemi Aguda | Things Boys Do

‘Pemi Aguda | Things Boys Do

The first man stands at the bedside of his sweating wife. He is watching their baby emerge from inside her. What he does not know is that he is watching their son destroy her insides, shredding, makin...

19 Helmi 202025min

Adam-Troy Castro | Today’s Question of the Day in Waverly, Ohio

Adam-Troy Castro | Today’s Question of the Day in Waverly, Ohio

For today’s question, we visited this small town of about 1700 people. As per our practice of the last six decades, they perceived us as a television news crew, and were compelled to speak truthfully,...

5 Helmi 202016min

Brian Evenson | Elo Havel

Brian Evenson | Elo Havel

It is good of you to write, and I thank you for it: I am glad at last to hear from another of my kind---and, above all, to have another of my kind acknowledge me. I have indeed, since my return, heard...

15 Tammi 202027min

Meg Elison | Familiar Face

Meg Elison | Familiar Face

Your camera thinks it spotted a familiar face. “Cameras don’t think,” Annie said, looking down at her phone. “Who taught this thing to identify specific faces? Who thought that was a good idea?” “Ok, ...

1 Tammi 202028min

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