by SickSue © Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone They were buried in shallow soil – now they’re uprooted and on the rampage, unstable and insatiable!!! ‘If you thought Killer Karrots I was the worst thing ever written, think again. Sick Sue outdoes herself!!’ The Skryptulchre ‘Full of classical allusions, with a protagonist called Kassandra, this post-feminist [...]
   by Michael Vella  As soon as I walked into the office Martin scowled, that way he usually scowls when he thinks I’m being unladylike, and said, “Jeez boss, why don’t you ever were a dress? Or at least iron your shirt?” I threw my keys on his desk, “Equal rights, Martin, [...]
by Bettina Borg Cardona  Picture the scene. The lonely jazz trumpet and somber chatter are extinguished as suddenly as the cigarette beneath a vicious stiletto heel as the heavy black door to the Blue Rhino slams shut. A strain of ‘Goodbye London’ cuts through the chill night air as Venera leans against the wall [...]
   By Kris Green  It’s ironic that just when I finally made the decision to leave the underworld, I found myself being dragged right back in. You can’t know how hard it is unless you’ve been there yourself. I’d like to say I fought like hell all the way, but I didn’t, [...]
by Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone  The glare from the street lights and neon signs was unrelenting. There was not a shadow to hide in. Garishly illuminated cats fucked on window-sills, a homeless man’s stream of urine took on fabulous colours as it caught the light. Into this winter wonderland wandered The Smoke, an aimless [...]
  by Christian Galea It was there, right before me. A hardening surface, bruised with little swollen protrusions of in-grown hair. She didn’t even start lactating. Perhaps she was not of age. Avoiding her eyes, I found that her body looked strangely familiar. I was sure that I had never slept with her before. [...]
 View part I  by Teodor Reljic  II.  [The following documents, it is hoped, will shed some light on the recent disaster at Humdry, although it must be stated from the outset that any conclusive evidence on the incident remains frustratingly out of reach. This is despite the fact that several parties were [...]
Story by Marco Attard   I receive a phone call from Assistant Commissioner Cuschieri at exactly 8 am. What would the Assistant Commissioner be doing calling the likes of me, one might ask. Well, it happens that his father knew my father and we grew up together and went to the Academy together, only [...]
View Part I by Daniel Vella He stopped, exhausted; he looked older and frailer than I had ever seen him. A few moments elapsed before he could muster the strength to continue. When he spoke again, it was in a pained, tortured, yet urgent rasp. “For what I saw so clearly in that moment of [...]
by Teodor Reljic There are few who do what I do as well as I do, but that doesn’t stop them from trying. That’s alright, you know…a girl needs to eat and they’re easy fodder. But sometimes I miss the competition. The one thing you can’t feel in this field is ‘old’: the fear tends [...]
