Submitted Short Stories
Hero Apomixis was written during C.A. Seller’s internment in N.Y. state’s notorious maximum security Attica Correctional Facility. A callous often brutal and humorous combination of reality and madness, this novel is an examination of one man’s decent into insanity. By C.A. Seller art by Dan Reece CHAPTER 1 Maybe a […]
By Saira Viola Nikki was a five and dime hustler. She had a fake-bake glow, red fish lips, and the kind of hips that can straddle a 6 foot mobster on ice. Her dreams stapled with 20 dollar bills and those cheap throwaway thrills a man gets when he feels […]
By Cody S. Decker Batten down the hatches, folks. Lock up your kids and run to the store. Buy all the milk, eggs, and bread that you can snatch off the shelves or swipe from the scooter-buggy haulin’ around the old lady that ain’t fast enough to catch up to […]
By Finley Daniels “Seriously? You guys are here on vacation?!” – some Spanish dude in the barrios of Malaga It was 5AM when my alarm started its ghastly ringing. I was about to smash my phone against the wall and go back to sleep when I realized what day it […]
By Donnie Casto II Many people would surely be able to sympathize with the change of fortune that life had brought to Thomas Barnes. Fewer, it seemed, would genuinely be able to empathize with it. A series of grave and unfortunate events found him recently taking on the task he […]
By Marc D. Goldfinger The first thing I noticed after hugging the kids and wiping the tears away was the mound of plastic garbage bags in the middle of the living room—and the smell. The two big dogs circled around the garbage pile. I saw my daughter creeping under a […]
By Tony X Stanton I stood on the terrace having a quiet smoke at 11pm with only 6 empty chairs and 3 tables for company. Standing in the shadows beside a taped off area with a pool that seemed to be full of green slime. Just being within ten feet […]
by Dr. Hercule Maelstrom art by Clayton Luce I am a man, a man who is attracted to women. I am not a feminist or a male rights activist, though I can honestly see the points of both ideologies. I write about things I know with the intention of informing other […]
By Tony X Stanton art by Josh Chambers We were playing away rehearsing for a gig that would never happen when Wiggy the bass player started to smell smoke. As Wiggy normally appeared to be stoned into orbit most times, we ignored him and kept playing…badly. When the dense smoke […]
by Brad OH Inc. I arrived at the fourth annual United Corporate Global Election promptly at 9:47am, and immediately began to regret the flask of whiskey I’d surreptitiously quaffed on the commuter shuttle over. The ride had been a full 45 minutes, and as I’d been rushed at high velocity […]
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