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.

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…
Five Poems by Jenny Grassl for Haunted Passages

These poems are based on my engagement with The Thunder, Perfect Mind: a poem written by an unknown woman from Egypt in the fourth century. Pagan and Christian ideas were merging and transforming in the divinities of the goddess Isis and Virgin Mary at this time. The epigraphs are taken from the Egyptian poem, and…
Haunted Passages: “Audrey Hepburn,” an Autofictional Dreamoir by Meghan Lamb

(A dreamoir inspired by Wendy C. Ortiz) I wake with a sharp pain behind my eyes, the kind that makes it difficult to open them. I rise in a fog of headache and blurred vision, taking careful, tender steps around the apartment. The apartment is a strange amalgam of familiar spaces, other spaces I’ve lived…
Two Haunted Passages Prose Poems by Jason Davidson

Chamomile I dreamt last night of the stubbed toe. On my way home from the election, I stop at the smallest bank. After I step inside, I yell somewhat loudly: This is a stick-up, everyone put your hands in the air right now! The head teller is a woman with purple whiskers. She says: Sir,…
“Four Paintings by ______ (1928-1999)”: A Haunted, Microfictive Gallery by Addison Zeller

The Loud Aviatrix (1957) In the foreground, a crowd of well-wishers plug their ears and wince. A number of young girls seem particularly excited, judging from the jaunty angles of their novelty aviatrix caps, to witness the aviatrix’s arrival. The aviatrix, in her pink jacket, white jodhpurs, and lighter pink scarf, her pale skin and…
Haunted Passages Hybrid by Cansu Açıkgöz: “Thursday, I Went to Pick Up the Dog”

Today is Thursday. I am going to pick up the dog. I had left him there for a few days. Maybe four. Maybe five. Along the way, the houses looked alike. Every antenna on the roofs leaned a little. Each door was slightly crooked. A yellow light flickered in the shop window. The dog seemed…
Haunted Passages Poetry: “One Thousand Ways to Die in a Cemetery” by Matt Zambito

Um, minus nine hundred ninety-nine?Zombies. Those total assholescrawling out of graves think love isthe taste of brains when the living alive knowit’s the art of a heart’s squeeze and releaseand appetite to please and be pleased.Reanimated monsters might munchthose pumping suckers, too. Oddimaginations have said as much, thoughflicks, tomes, and silly shows aboutthe pulsing deceased…
Haunted Passages Flash Fiction: “The Magic of Certainty” by Kim Farleigh

Orville, prostate on a Jeep’s hood under a blaze of stars, aimed his gun at imaginary targets. A print of his wife’s last email dropped from the hood onto the desert’s sand. Orville’s typical scowl became a mean grimace after reading: “Don’t be angry now, but I’m in love with Denzel and we’re going to…
New Haunted Passages Short Story: “Abattoir” by Sofia Mosqueda

I imagine my husband as a shrike. This bird eats what he impales, wood splintering, his tree decorated with flesh. They immortalize death when they hang their prey on spines or barbed wire, feverishly pecking at their bodies for days, but their meat is never enough. At night, my husband wakes me by resting his…