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Deer, Girl; Stephanie Parent
After ten years in Los Angeles, Megan’s body couldn’t handle the cold. Megan went jogging after dark, in the suburban Maryland...
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- Mar 1, 2022
- 10 min
The Metamorphosis, Noha Khalil
CW: death, animal death The car is empty when Juliet enters it. Not surprising, considering that it’s two in the morning. She slumps into...
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- Dec 26, 2021
- 5 min
I Have Always Been This, Sarah Salcedo
CW: violence & body horror I awake in the moment of fleeing for my life although I can tell from the ache in my muscles, I’ve been...
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- Dec 25, 2021
- 3 min
The Depths, Keith LaFountaine
Don’t look at the faces in the water. If you already have, it’s too late. I know it’s your bathroom. Your bathtub. It wasn’t full before....
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- Dec 24, 2021
- 2 min
Pass the Salt, Brianne Battye
Pass the salt, I hear my voice ask and you ignore it. The chicken-shaped shaker stares at me from across the table, unmoved. You glance...
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- Dec 20, 2021
- 2 min
Bloodied Shallows, Matthew Wilson
Arthur Allen didn’t want a medal, nor the expedition grant; he just wanted to kill Ben Disdon. Of course he said nothing when he found...
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- Dec 19, 2021
- 4 min
Tree Line, Matt McGuirk
Our house sits in the middle of a cleared lot with tree lines that creep up. Shadows wave as the sun rises behind a stand of maples to...
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- Dec 16, 2021
- 4 min
The Singing Hands of Fola Tarbh, R. Wren
Dispute over Fola Tarbh Field Continues; Gardaí Warn Against ‘Hoaxsters’ Speaking this week to residents of the beleaguered Greenhills...
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- Dec 10, 2021
- 5 min
Halfway Down The Hole, Elad Haber
previously published on pindelyboz.com CW: mentions of death There's a ghost in the car. It speaks in silence. It fills the holes of...
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- Nov 29, 2021
- 4 min
Playing House, Helen Patterson
I’m not sure who started it, but we kids created a game called Vampire House, or House. In House, you break into one of the dark,...
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- Sep 9, 2021
- 3 min
The Murder of Crows, Holley Cornetto
CW: blood, gore, violence, implied violence against children He looked down, surveying the fields. His overalls were a tattered, bloody...
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- Aug 18, 2021
- 1 min
Mary, Jay Jellicoe
You stood still, listening. Faintly you caught a long, quicksilver cry. Your lantern light flickered from nettle to briar, to rose, to...
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- Aug 17, 2021
- 1 min
Thirst for Light, Steven Bergmark
CW: mentions of blood What lays a promised life low? How does a home become a tomb? The trees bend over the river. Were it not for the...
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- Aug 16, 2021
- 2 min
Inveiglement, Tangela Williams-Spann
CW: violence/bodily harm The elders warn about the whispers. There are voices that beckon from the wood during full moon nights. Sweet,...
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- Aug 15, 2021
- 1 min
Whispers, Arah McManamna
Grandma always said if we were careless, the woods would take us. We never listened. Sometimes we made it home at dusk, barely beating...
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- Aug 14, 2021
- 1 min
Wolf in Her Teeth, Issy M Flynn
2nd Place Winner of the "In the Woods Somewhere" Contest Do not venture to the path where the flowers grow, little one, bruise-blue and...
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- Jul 10, 2021
- 3 min
The Dip, James McPherson
# She dives downwards from the ocean liner, illuminated by only a pale moon looking out over a sombre early morning. Maybe the non-native...
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- Jul 6, 2021
- 10 min
The Infestation of Clary Moon, Ness Cernac
I encountered her first in the dark. I remember thinking how well she absorbed the lamplight. Faint, yellowish strains flickered above...
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- Jun 28, 2021
- 2 min
Nightwandering Around Ishkeesh, Leece Oliver
We step softly through the willow seeds, the spindly bird-wing blades fluttering down to crunch under our boots. The air bites cool...
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- Jun 26, 2021
- 4 min
The Fog, Your Heart, Our Teeth, Hannah Madonna
No one comes back from the fog. That’s what they murmur, what they tell the girls who wander too close to the edges of the forest, who...
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