Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott, the tale of a square who lives in a two-dimensional plane, has charmed readers since its initial publication in 1884. But while modern readers still enjoy the second h...

Please listen to an audio production of my flash fiction piece, Foreign Objects. Many thanks to Sofia Quintero, E.G. Condé, and Noah S. McKi

Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott, the tale of a square who lives in a two-dimensional plane, has charmed readers since its initial publication in 1884. But while modern readers still enjoy the second h...

He’s delusional. Good in the sack, though. I flatten the popcorn bag on the microwave carousel and hit two minutes, express cook, and he asks me why I hit two minutes and not the button that says popc...

Flash fiction by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez

He’s delusional. Good in the sack, though. I flatten the popcorn bag on the microwave carousel and hit two minutes, express cook, and he asks me why I hit two minutes and not the button that says popc...

He’s delusional. Good in the sack, though. I flatten the popcorn bag on the microwave carousel and hit two minutes, express cook, and he asks me why I hit two minutes and not the button that says popc...

Asher lives in a shithole. It wasn’t always a shithole. A couple of centuries back it would have been a nice townhouse for a respectable family of means. Since then it’s been chopped into two flats, t...

The Connoisseur’d heard that she was the only genius in town. Weimar republic hairdo blacker than a goth’s heart. Improbable, glowing, crème-de-menthe eyes. Allegedly had a tattoo of Frederick Barbaro...

Zachary Gillan Intrusion is a cornerstone of weird fiction. The weird itself intrudes to unsettle a narrative, one genre intrudes into another, irrealism intrudes into the real. We might also think…

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ergot. innovative horror

There’s a real thrill to a well-deployed epigraph, particularly when it’s a theoretical concept used to set the stage for a work of fiction. For a particularly excellent example—of both use of epigrap...

There’s a real thrill to a well-deployed epigraph, particularly when it’s a theoretical concept used to set the stage for a work of fiction. For a particularly excellent example—of both use of epigrap...

It’s a dark and stormy night, and the residents of the Castle Arms apartments are watching a scary movie. On the small, bulbous screens of their television sets, a killer stalks in scratchy chiaroscur...

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Ben Lockwood explores how Ivy Grimes uses geography in powerful ways in her short story collection.

Author: Ivy Grimes Cover Artist: Jesse Peper Publication Date: August 21, 2024 Published by: Grimscribe Press 142 pp.   Trade Paperback – $20 USD(Shipping and handling included worldwide…

My grandmother’s kitchen was dark, and that was where she kept her dog. He whined all the time. He was made of glass. I lived with my mother, but I never seemed to be at home. Maybe I was distracted w...

In 2022, small Canadian horror press Undertow Publications released two of my favourite books of the year: the unsettling, Cronenberg-esque Victorian body horror Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum, and The Tal...

In 2022, small Canadian horror press Undertow Publications released two of my favourite books of the year: the unsettling, Cronenberg-esque Victorian body horror Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum, and The Tal...