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“Masks” for Haunted Passages: Short Story Excerpt from How to See Ghosts & Other Figments, a new collection by Orrin Grey
When it comes to short fiction, Orrin Grey is a magician, a practitioner of an arcane art inspired by the … More
Exclusive Story Excerpt “The Living” from Campfires of the Dead and the Living by Peter Christopher – Out Now!
Campfires of the Dead and the Living is a collection of short fiction by Peter Christopher. This volume contains The … More
Three Poems Exclusively from Jay Halsey’s Multi-Form Collection Barely Half in an Awkward Line
Barely Half in an Awkward Line weaves a twelve-year span of Jay Halsey’s photography, poems, short stories, and essays. Photos … More
Exclusive Excerpt from And Yet, a book-length speculative essay by Jeff Alessandrelli
An innovative work of speculative fiction, Jeff Alessandrelli’s And Yet interrogates contemporary shyness, selfhood and sexual mores, drawing out the particulars of … More
“A Dream of Trees and Television and Ghosts,” a nonfiction excerpt from Sarah Kornfield’s THE TRUE: A TRILOGY OF GHOSTS
“A Trilogy of Ghosts” is a composite of three books called The True. In 2019, world-renowned Romanian theater director Alexandru … More
“Skullface” by Rick Claypool: A Novel Excerpt for The Future
Skullface 1. A mutant wakes up screaming alone under harsh beams of laboratory light. The humanlike thing cries and clings … More
MISCELLANEOUS LANGUAGE novel excerpt by Pablo D’Stair
I KEPT THE ONE DRAWER of the desk, the one third down or second up, depending how your mind … More
REGARD novel excerpt by Pablo D’Stair
IT WAS UNTIL A POINT she was uncertain of she had kept a list of the topics on which … More
“.SUMMONS.”: KILL CHRISTIAN novel excerpt & audio by Pablo D’Stair
… kill Christian finds itself the happy owner of several (perhaps meaningless, but nevertheless) distinctions in my career, so-called. Perhaps … More
Excerpt of Fred Misurella’s Novel A PONTIAC IN THE WOODS (Blue Triangle Press)
Jamie Sasso finds herself alone, with no family or home. Cast adrift by a distant cousin in another state, she … More
“THE PRISON FORECAST”: Excerpted from AGITPROP FOR BEDTIME: POLEMIC, STORY PROBLEMS, KULTURPORN AND HUMDINGERS by Charles Holdefer (Sagging Meniscus Press)
A portable collection of polemical bedtime stories for adults, addressing such timely topics as: erectile dysfunction during the national anthem, … More
“.LAST WORDS.”: CONFIDANT novel excerpt & audio by Pablo D’Stair
… I think I remember the parking lot, the weather, where I was standing with my best friend Goodloe Byron, … More
“.DECEMBER.”: OCTOBER PEOPLE novel excerpt & audio by Pablo D’Stair
…It was twenty-years ago today (as someone – I can’t think who – was known to say) at the ripe … More
“The Manufacture of Biomechanical Slime-Horrors Sets a Bad Example for the High School Science Club,” a Haunted Passages story excerpt from the conspiracy horror anthology Freaky Tales from the Force: Season One
Elected as county sheriff on a paranormal defense and anti-goblinry platform, Sheriff Cecil Kotto has defended the citizens of his … More