“Widower,” a Haunted Passages Short Story by X. Luma

Widower One spring afternoon, while Widower was gathering lettuce from the garden, his daughter Lew called out from her siblings … More

Four Poems for Haunted Passages: Violet Mitchell

You Buried Me Right Where I Belong baby i watch you watch me destroy myself baby i am staticending gray … More

Preserved From Decay and Endued with Immortality We buried Uncle Charles way out back, beyond the orchard, a good two … More

He Did Not Listen Now his bones are neatly displayedon a table like a museum piece. “They shine like hard … More

Swamp Thing Explains How Time Passes in the Middle of Dueling Crises It’s never a matter of value. When I’m … More

*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Phil Shreck is a writer living in Connecticut with his wife and three … More

Problem Solving I wanted to watch a Western,a dirtier the better Western, where everybodyaccidentally kills everybodyjust after they say in … More

Dream of Me I’m walking downa cold tunnel. The walls curveup to a ceiling of water. An enormoustentacled shadowpasses over, … More

The Barrel For as long as he could remember, the barrel had sat in the back yard, behind a locked … More

Squimbop Fever I drove all night in the truck I’d found parked in front of the house on Cielo Drive, … More

Digital Dreaming in Analog TUTORIAL It was on the thirteenth stage of one of those marble simulator games that Maxwell … More

The Brothers Squimbop in Hollywood After their disastrous tour of Europe, which had necessitated nothing less than complete rebirth from … More

Assessment: Disinterment Or if notdisinterred exactly,shaken loose by cravingsnot quite killed with the rest of you? All that coldgravel of … More

Tornadic Weather The Midwest throws neon-colored food at us. We have something microscopic in our throats. The trees procreate with … More

Stylus Harbinger of what’s to come and what’s coming pure shitty.Peerless ditty at the end of JuneWhen the swans are … More