He knew he ought to leave. The passing over into the fluid new dimension he inhabited these days had occurred long ago, though it felt like no time had passed at all. He wished he'd known the small trouble of dying had naught to do with ceasing to exist in that initial stage of "life." If only he'd known things would only get better! Still, as he traversed...
Seobanien watched the girl as she strung wispy threads of mock spider web across a flimsy wooden coffin. She had been working for hours decorating the small house and bit by bit transforming it into the very ideal of suburban festivity. Stark white plastic ghosts frolicked in the yard alongside cardboard gravestones. A scarecrow sat limply on the top of a tr...
He had come here, in order to hide himself away. This evil boy who did not BELIEVE. Who would never BELIEVE. He had tried, honestly. And now was the final moment of the world. Come the Armageddon. And he knew he was the lowest of them all as he hid with his eyes closed, drawing himself into himself as neatly and precisely as he could, having never been a nea...
Theresa Simmons is the name. I'm a six-foot-tall, voluptuous and big-bottomed, dark-skinned young Black woman living in the city of Atlanta, down in Georgia. Although I look like an ordinary gal, if a bit Amazonian in stature, in most respects, I'm something else entirely. You see, I'm a shape-shifter. I can assume the form of any person or animal I touch. T...
In the clearing, a creature stood hidden in the shadows of an elm tree. His ragged hair consumed a pale face while a strong scent of blood and grim coated his body. Clutching the tree closely, the man watched a small beaten road that ran from Lincolnshire to London with the utmost enthusiasm. Hunger was a great enemy to any animal. When hunger took hold it...
A short story Trilogy by Ashley Stout "Haven't you heard of the space gypsies? Blue aliens, man. Blue like the genies from old pop culture. We call them Jinsie. Jinn is the name of an Arabic devil or some crap, I think. Right. And they're totally blue. I mentioned that, didn't I? Blue as deep ocean. Blue as fucking...what's blue? Sapphires." He snorted. "Th...
Ylise woke early dreading the coming inventory that she simply must get done today. At 22 her friends had joked that her becoming a librarian was as normal as a stripper becoming a nun. With her body she should have been a movie star they said. 5'8" tall with a 30D bust and a creamy complexion that contrasted nicely with her dark auburn hair and shimmering e...
Upper Kek Valley 18 miles North of Tirol Eque Mountain, East face Along the Calais Line 3E 410 "We are getting pummeled over here!" Yelled subordinate Shpyr. " They are breaking the line!" Shpyr rose his battleaxe and drove it down into a charging Wolf Soldier's Skull. As he kicked the body forward an arrow slipped through the air and hit him in the le...
"Wives, submit to your husbands, as unto the Lord," Ephesians 5:22, The Holy Bible. "The wife should submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband," Southern Baptist resolution. "I'm the only one who can make decisions," Giancarlo Giannini as Gennarino Carunchio in Swept Away. Few questions arouse more hackles than that of whether wom...
What had begun as a shitty day, had become the most unbelievable of my life. I had been fired. Working as a night ticket clerk in the subway wasn't much good to begin with, but it had been paying my way through college... why I chose Ancient & Medievil Lore is still beyond me. The rain was pissing down, the clouds black, dreary, broiling. I was walking pas...