Ancient Cave Secrets
Marceline pushed forward through the rock of planetoid C133Y9. Her modified vector gate severing the stone?s bonds at a subvoxel level before dumping the waste into another universe rather than her own inventory slots. Using these alien devices to...
Purple
James doesn't like the colour purple. When James sees the colour purple, he remembers an early morning in Gunnison, Colorado, in the middle of a lukewarm September. He remembers the rusty wheel of his bike that caused him to stop more than once,...
The Interrogation: A Dr. Cardboard Revue
" **The Interrogation: A Dr. Cardboard Revue"** **by Terry Echoes** Pierre found himself staring up at a picture of a man with a manic grin. The grin stretched across the man's golden-brown muzzle, and his eyes were lit up with the kind of jovial...
the ceremony
Every young doe and buck loved the autumn festival. But every young doe and every young buck also feared the autumn festival. Once a year, in October, before the snow made travelling difficult, the tribes all came together. It had been like that...
The Deal
"There you are! Where have you been again? Have you forgotten the toadhide? Where is it?" Faye sighed. Her stepmom was again ill-spirited. "Mom, you know Nissa won't let me kill anything. I got you one that a snake choked up." The teenaged deer...
Sleep Talk Love Affair
It had been a long week, in a long month, in a long school year. She wasn't sure how she'd managed to survive it, but somehow Lisa was still standing. The worst of the school year was over. Just a final week of bullshit with the kids, and then she was...
Tintinnabulation
There it was again: The sound cutting through the trees, piercing past the wind and calling to mind the silence of every creature in the forest. Craig Secker could hear the tinny tones of a mobile phone from roughly a decade past every time he hit...
Coming out of the tent
He'd made Shannon Connelly cry, the bastard. Nobody messed with Shannon Connelly, because there was no reason to do so. Everybody loved her. She was head of the film club at school, and had the best taste in film. You'd think that's not objective, but...
Hindr (By Chaon)
The text was bright red and stylistically rendered in the manner of the Goosebumps logo; with ugly pustules that seemed to drip off the pristine white of his smartphone screen. Other than the garish font the splash screen appeared boringly dull next to...
Ever-Living Hell
I wiped the tears from my eyes, ignored the picture of the dead cub in front of me and put down the pistol on the table, within easy reach of my paw. Grabbing the quill-style ink pen I started to write on the fine-quality paper. Admission of my...
Protection (By 3timer)
Greg walked down the road, bundled against the freezing wind. It was blowing directly in his face, because of course it was. That much was expected. Things were always against him. Not just the wind. Seems like...
Fleshmarket
He is not a doctor. Not even in the loosest sense of the word. No white coat. No stethoscope. He could be anyone: an accountant, an administrator, a manager. Neither part of the medical team nor the patient?s retinue; he is an outsider?an...