2025-Issue 24

Delphina Phillips sat rubbing her swollen belly, thinking about what lay ahead. Del had never given>>Read more...

The dead cat didn’t help. The dead cat couldn’t be a good sign. Lafferty ran over the poor creature>>Read more...

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Ellie, Eleanor at church, spins her wedding band on her finger and heads from her car toward the>>Read more...

There under the low arched bridge where the stream whispers apologetically and hurries away There’s>>Read more...

The moon spills its silver, veiling the room in whispers. Burgundy curtains billow, the bed— a dark>>Read more...

It would not be found on any tourist map, but ask the locals; they could tell you. In the dark heart>>Read more...

Mia had a strange bird. But what attracted me to her was the smile, which lit up her face and the>>Read more...

In front of that same study desk twelve years later, Elena Ferreira sat in a comfortable chair, now>>Read more...

The war is over. The humans lost. Now, the one-eyed gargantuan— head in the clouds— scans the fields>>Read more...

The words forced an image to flash across Bill’s mind; demons feasting on the flesh of the damned, a>>Read more...

There’s a crow on the mailbox. It just sits there, beady eyes trained on the house. It doesn’t caw>>Read more...

Thomasina awoke sluggishly. When did I even go to sleep? Confused and disoriented, she found herself>>Read more...

When the clock strikes seven, Athena puts down her knitting needles and folds her arms. It is a>>Read more...

I’d been awake from hibernation a few hours before the black dog arrived on my porch as I was>>Read more...

Dr. Benoit was only a bit more sane than his patients. Volunteering on Christmas Eve felt rash to>>Read more...

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Dean Shawker Dean Shawker hails from Bracknell, UK, and now lives in Melbourne, Australia. Dean is>>Read more...

Jodi Christensen Small town Utah is where Jodi calls home. She spends her days in a>>Read more...

Kara Hawkers Kara Hawkers is a poet and author of short, dark fiction. As Editor-in-Chief, Kara>>Read more...

Elliot Ansell Elliot Ansell is originally from England, has lived in Argentina, Spain, and Mexico>>Read more...

Janet Wright Janet Wright lives in the wilds of North Yorkshire, UK, where foxes shriek and owls>>Read more...