Category: Fiction

“The Marienbad Disaster, Part I – The Doorways of Jadeaux,” a short story for Haunted Passages by Phil Shreck

*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Phil Shreck is a writer living in Connecticut with his wife and three children. His short fiction has appeared in The Drum Literary Magazine, The Festival Review, Delay Fiction, and Misery Tourism. He is currently at work on his first novel, SMBH, which he calls a work of…
Bards & Brews Reader, a 2016-17 anthology of series performers

BNB logo designed by Emily Weddle Table of Contents FICTION “Shangri La Dee Da” Dan Mancilla “Bigfoot’s Overcoat” Matthew Fogarty NONFICTION “Staff Meeting” “Rescue” “Scorpio, Born in the Year of the Cock” “Go, Jim Dandy” Ginny MacDonald Broadside Excerpt from “Field Notes” Josh MacIvor-Andersen POETRY “How to Skin a Rabbit” “Assembly Instructions for…
The way the sky was now, a 2013 fiction chapbook by Ryder Collins

Image: Eben A. Kling Winner of the 2013 Heavy Feather Chapbook AwardJudge Amber Sparks, author of The Unfinished World and Other Stories: “‘And so it came to be. & so it came to be that Big Mama squatted and borned us. & we came out squalling and waving sticks.’ This is the way we’re…
Follow Through, a 2014 fiction chapbook by Colin Winnette

Image: Grazyna Smalej Winner of the 2014 Heavy Feather Chapbook AwardJudge Lucy Corin, author of One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses: “Follow Through is elegant, sure footed, smart—a nest of sticks that won’t stay sticks—a nest of sticks that snowballs—scary and marvelous.” Table of Contents>>
“The Barrel”: A Haunted Passages Short Story by Holly Day

For as long as he could remember, the barrel had sat in the back yard, behind a locked gate and a very tall fence. Only the father had the key, and three times a day, the boy would watch his father take a jumbled plate of scraps out to the back yard to leave at…
I CAN SEE YOU WRITE #3: Joshua Jones & Ruth LeFaive

This is Lucy. I CAN SEE YOU WRITE is a collaborative project where I work with writers to create interactive and/or generative poetry and stories. You write stuff and I write code and we come up with a visual narrative and user experience built for the web. The sky and JavaScript is the limit. I’m…
Haunted Passages Short Story: “Squimbop Fever” by David Leo Rice

I drove all night in the truck I’d found parked in front of the house on Cielo Drive, windows open so the last of the names Jim and Joe could flow out, leaving me in a purified state that I chose to call the Brothers Squimbop, though I knew I was alone. I drove through lowlands…
“Criminal”: A Bad Survivalist Short Story by Meg Tuite

My mouth belonged to me. “Your head is flat as a tape worm.” We waited in line to get measured. Anything over six inches was condemned as perverse and a student was sent home. These girls lived for high hair. She said, “Fuck your mother.” “My mother’s dead.” She gestured the sign of the cross…
The Future: DEAR WOLFMOTHER, a post-apocalyptic, digital novel in four parts by Matthew Burnside

The WOLFMOTHER quartet is a post-apocalyptic digital novel that will unfold in four serialized installments / seasons / operatic movements of which the first two are available: [ALLEGRO /// SUMMER] & [ADAGIO /// AUTUMN]. It’s a non-commercial artifact using a number of public domain images, creative commons music and artwork (all fully credited), a Wix…