FarFetchedFables No 188 H L Fullerton
“Too Poor to Sin” by H.L. Fullerton(Originally published in Mysterion.)Grandfather squandered our family's fortune on forgiveness, forcing Father to enlist in the Legion and serve the angels. This was...
23 Tammi 201841min
FarFetchedFables No 187 Samuel Marzioli
“Penelope's Song” by Samuel Marzioli(Originally published in The Third Spectral Book of Horror Stories.)Penelope gazed through her bedroom window, mesmerized by the motion of the night. Flowers trembl...
9 Tammi 201837min
FarFetchedFables No 186 Michael Rimar
“Avarice” by Michael Rimar(Originally published in Darwin's Evolutions.)Shadow blocked the glare of Uttum’s twin suns. Saleem looked up at the source, a man dressed in robes pale as bleached bone.“Off...
26 Joulu 201746min
FarFetchedFables No 185 Greg van Eekhout
“In the Late December” by Greg van Eekhout(Originally published in Strange Horizons.)Here's a secret of the North Pole: Santa powders his hands with talc before donning his thick red mittens.It is a s...
12 Joulu 201725min
FarFetchedFables No 184 Russell Hemmell
“M” by Russell Hemmell(Originally published in Not One of Us.)We look like them, Christian thought, admiring the fresco in the charnel house and its ghastly figures, scary and eerily beautiful. He adj...
28 Marras 201730min
FarFetchedFables No 183 Paul R Hardy
“Customer Service Hobgoblin” by Paul R. Hardy(Originally published in Unidentified Funny Objects 5.)Beeep."Good morning, you're through to Robin. How may I receive your prayer?""Oh. Hello? My name is ...
13 Marras 201735min
FarFetchedFables No 182 Karen Traviss
“The Man Who Did Nothing” by Karen Traviss(Originally published in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection.)Hursley Rise, May 2There was a boy – five, maybe six – sitting on ha...
31 Loka 201749min
FarFetchedFables No 181 Judith Field
“Psychopomps” by Judith Field(Originally published in The Colored Lens, Summer 2014.)Mark’s next door neighbour and business partner Pat kept telling him that power flowed through his veins. He took a...
24 Loka 201732min
