Category: Haunted Passages

An ominous wind circles you in the middle of an isolated woods. Your friends wander into an empty factory, under the cover of dusk, never to be seen again. These are “Haunted Passages,” new features of unearthly delights.

Two Haunted Passages Prose Poems by Naa Asheley Ashitey

Pelvic Floor Diary Entry #2 Yesterday, I learned the answer as to why I have a notable frustration [hate/resentment] that my mother praises God so much. Not because the concept or the existence of religion is wrong; that the idea of living a life to a moral code is so sacrilegious and foreign. I still…
Two Haunted Passages Poems by David Anson Lee

Inventory of Missing Persons, Filed Under Fluorescent Light There was no announcement.Only a chair that stayed emptylonger than politeness allows. We kept speaking around it:weather, prescriptions,the cost of small mercies;as if absence were a languagewe had agreed not to learn. Later, someone checked the hallway.The doors were closedin a way that suggested completion. A chart…
Short Fiction for Haunted Passages: “The House of Mirrors” by Yeonjin Kim

Each autumn, the same hollow weight returns. This year it arrived with force, summoned by a conversation a month prior, when I had dared to mention the firm’s new lease. “A private office, you say? With a window?” My mother’s voice had been dry, easily shattered—meant to puncture silence, never to inhabit it. “Vanity. That…
New Haunted Passages Flash Fiction: “The Tooth Fairy” by Miles Greaves

“You have to put your tooth under your pillow for the Tooth Fairy,” said the mother. “I want to keep it,” said the boy. “Ha ha,” said the mother. “What are you going to do with an old tooth?” “Just keep it,” said the boy. “The Tooth Fairy might not give you money,” said the…
New Poem for Haunted Passages: “The Birdcage” by Martine Bellen

Sighted people tend to react to darkness like birds when their cage is covered for the night. And with my cage concealed, I rested on a bed of nettles, Hansel as my dream. Or rather, I drowned in our mutual dream, having slipped into him while asleep, and when he awoke, I—Gretel—remained in deep slumber,…
Haunted Passages Short Fiction: “The Patron Saint of All Domestic Mishaps” by Sarp Sozdinler

First, the dryer broke. Then the walkie-talkie in Brian’s room. Then my mother-in-law’s little marble angels lined along the topmost shelf of our china cabinet. No doubt we were being tested in some divine way, likely by the god of domestic mishaps, with all his elaborate wirework and minor humiliations. Whatever the case, it was…
“This Landscape Is a Monster”: Adam Camiolo Reviews Mónica Ojeda’s Novel Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun

We are living in a shared apocalyptic dream, go ask anyone. Every headline a prophecy of doom, every drizzle diluvian, every vibrato a volcano. The world is being undone, line by line, voice by voice, note by note. It is a time of discord, and Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun, the new…
Two Poems for Haunted Passages by B. Anne Kalicki

Treno verso nord To the left a climbing sea, there and far,the cry grew only direction.A loose refrain of granite and supposed forms,under every movement.Hear the exact skies, a journeyed breathtuning to chicory, no questionor wild gladiolus, just tracing,never decided.I am real, after all, prima donnasaid gravely as her spotlight. Ponte del Diavolo and hilltopscast no…
Haunted Passages Flash Fiction: “Message from a Forlorn Mad Scientist” by Rachel Sterling

There was no way of telling where the messages were coming from exactly. Many attempts were made with sonar locating technological methods to zero in on their mysterious origin but to no avail. Dr. Alison McGillicuddy from the Linguistics Department had been classifying and analyzing the highly unusual sentence structures in these messages which repeatedly…