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From “Late Breaking” by Darryl Amirault
Harry desperately examined the newspaper he’d found in the old china hutch, looking for obvious signs of forgery. Misspellings, ribald jokes, anything. But no, at least as a far as a surface...
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From “Dreaming of Flowers” by Avery R. Mendez II
“I had that dream again, computer.” “Are you referring to the recurring dream of which you have complained for some months now?” “That’s right. Me, walking…surrounded by color and fragrance, flowers of...
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From “City of the White Sails” by Damion Richard Reynolds
“Report, Mr. Sykers.” “There be no question, cap’n,” Sykers said, removing his hat. “The logbook in city hall say there be no less than two thousand souls afoot in Scurvy Cove. Me raiding party found a...
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From “Circles on Town Square” by Xavier Klint
You’d be forgiven for missing them. People usually stick to the pretty side of downtown, the side that faces out. It gets cleaned regularly, the sidewalks are swept, and the only whiff of danger is if...
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From “Svyatilishche Airbase” by Oren Alexandr Solanki
Madras emerged from the tattered fuselage. “It’s an Antonov An-2, like I thought,” he said. “Very rugged, very dependable, very Russian. It’s been here a long time.” “Can you get it started?” Connell...
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From “The 13th Drive” by Jeffrey K. Sagastegui
This post is part of the January 2013 Blog Chain at Absolute Write. This month’s prompt is “the number 13″. They were there almost every time Dr. Rajab Sizdah drove by: an overweight couple, shabbily...
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From “The Dark Ship Calls” by Kendrick Inzunza
Kapteynport had, at once time, been a center of trade and commerce. At the mouth of the River Barnard, it was a key artery in bringing trade from the inland cities to the colonies. That had changed...
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From “Abandoned in Mystery” by Theo S. Oliver
Republic Park was on the Texas coast, near Galveston. It opened during the post-Disneyland theme park boom in the 1960s and was very profitable for many years because it was much closer to Houston than...
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From “Cerebral Locks” by Belle O. Lofton
When the researchers in the Cognitive Mapping Program first began sifting through memories that their volunteers couldn’t consciously recall, they found a really startling image. A creature leering...
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From “Seele’s Siphon” by M. Lambert Lange
As soon as she shook his hand, it was gone. All of it, as if it had never existed. The novel plot she’d been working on in the shower for over a year, the investment strategy she’d worked out with her...
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From “The Only Apartment It Won’t Touch” by Adriana Schmeidler
I hadn’t run the dishwasher in my apartment, so it was a little strange to wake up to it churning away. Especially since the door was open. Rushing downstairs as fountains of hot water erupted from the...
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From “Devilchilde” by Hamad Arauz
This post is part of the August 2013 Blog Chain at Absolute Write. This month’s prompt is “Child of the Devil.” Maria Nguyan had been skeptical of the woman in the dark dress at first. She’d even...
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From “Isolated on Red” by Michael Ryan Gard
“Why are we here?” “Because the Todd Mansion is on the Top Ten Most Haunted Locations list in Tobin’s Spirit Guide, and you wanted to start at the top.” “No, why are we really here? You know Tobin’s is...
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From “The RAT Trap” by Seth Johnette
Ray Seymour was a postmodern monster. But if you asked he would say he was just having a little harmless fun. “All right, let’s see what slaves are online today,” he said, cracking his knuckles in...
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From “The Great Unraveling” by J. Guillermo Di Alba
Since the first of us stood up in the Great Rift Valley, humans were obsessed with how their world will end. Eschatology, the study of the end times, has been at the root of major religions, scientific...
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From “Claimed by the Darkness” by P. Cecil Victor
“What? Why would you bring us back here?” Jon cried. “After everything I did to get you out of there…we have to go, now!” He tried to lean over to grapple for control of the car, but was interrupted by...
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From “The Newman Pool” by Noel Pawnom
“No one’s sure where it came from. All we know is that we first became aware of its existence when most of the town collapsed into this sinkhole.” Sanda Monaghan, an adjunct with the EPA, stood on a...
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From “Secret of the Wash Van” by Steven Howe Ashcraft
Ol’ Leaky. That’s what people called the Hopewell Mobile Wash. It was a startup business, appearing around Hopewell in 2005 or so, and catering to rich Southern Michigan University students who...
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From “Horror on the Tundra” by Arthur Rhode Norton
“Shit, it’s Orlov,” said Kaminski. Pale from the cold and from the sight of his fellow guard’s mangled body still staining the Siberian snow red with weeping blood. “Are you going to give me a weapon...
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From “Heptagonal Crystalline” by Lyn Page Holtan-St. Claire
Latisha Owen thought that the amber drops on her car’s windshield were just flecks of resin from a pine tree. There weren’t any pines near her apartment, nor could she recall driving under any, but...
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