Ashok K. Banker | Six-Gun Vixen and the Dead Coon Trashgang
Dead Gulch lived up to its name. A two-bit hick town that was little more than a dirt track flanked by a couple dozen wood shacks. My beast growled low and mean as I started through and then reared up...
21 Feb 20171h 1min
Merc Fenn Wolfmoor | Later, Let’s Tear Up The Inner Sanctum
Still in the hospital. Radiation burns suck. Mom came to see me, though, which was nice. She probably had to argue with that dick of a boss she works for to let her off early. You’d think since I near...
14 Feb 20171h 3min
Kelly Barnhill | Probably Still the Chosen One
“You must wait here,” the Highest of the High Priests told her. “We will return and bring you back to the Land of Nibiru once we have found the circlet to place upon your head.” The very mention of th...
7 Feb 201759min
Molly Tanzer | Nine-Tenths of the Law
Donna had picked up Jared’s favorite--Romano’s to go, he liked the rosemary bread and the penne rustica---and was just putting it in the oven to keep warm when they brought him in. _They_ being EMTs, ...
24 Jan 201758min
Jeremiah Tolbert | The West Topeka Triangle
As much as the other kids in my neighborhood like to tell me I’m a know-it-all, I realize just how short the list of things I actually know is one cold winter morning in 1987. I know my vocabulary wor...
17 Jan 201754min
Adam-Troy Castro | The Whole Crew Hates Me
They hate me. They have told me this, again and again, starting from almost the first day of the mission, and continuing every day since then, carrying their hostility well outside the confines of the...
10 Jan 201726min
Kat Howard | Seven Salt Tears
When I was a child, my mother would tell me stories of the sea. When I couldn’t sleep, when I was restless, when I burned with some childhood fever, she would sit by my side, and conjure something won...
3 Jan 201723min
Charles Payseur | The Death of Paul Bunyan
Paul Bunyan has died. Paul Bunyan has died and Johnny Appleseed is heading north. Not for vengeance, like Paul would have wanted. Not to beat the hills red or divert a river over those responsible for...
27 Dec 201623min
