Andrei looks at his handsome face as it stares back at him, reflected, telling him that he is beautiful. The perversion of mirrors. They watch you when you are naked, to the anorexic they whisper ‘you are fat’, to the beauty queen that her breasts are sagging, and that perhaps it is time for a [...]
“Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet.” All of Hyboria is astir at the moment as the new Conan movie is going to slash its way to the [...]
Sound of ringing bell echoes deep into the night… When it finally dies away…
HOTELKEEPER: Welcome to the Twilight Inn, Monsieur. How may I help you?
David stared at the scene of the accident from a safe distance a street corner away. The pizza delivery guy, a kid really, was turning right when the car clipped his rear tire causing him to fall and bang his head on the asphalt. He hadn’t moved after that. He didn’t look dead, but he’d [...]
Part 2 here Talbot was on the verge of giving up: the note, he grudgingly conceded to himself after repeated efforts, had left no magic trail. He had spent entire nights – his days were occupied by more wholesome activities which are too tedious to elaborate upon at length, save to say that they enabled [...]
A PULP SERIAL ADVENTURE to read the previous part, click here… ‘I’m sorry, but ninjas following us all the way to Malta to fight you guys sounds pretty unbelievable.’ ‘Fair enough… then again how would you explain this?’ Kowalski dropped a sickle attached to a chain on the table Hercules Gray and Diotallevi had been [...]
It took him some time to get used to his new legs: every body had its own particular balance, and he was liable to the odd ignominous fall in the first few days, even after so long. Still, that was the easy part: the real trick was in working his way into the delicate web [...]
Part Eleven By Kris Green Part Twelve With surprising agility, Pel ducked beneath its jaws as they snapped shut where his head had been only a second or two earlier. He barrelled into the thing’s legs and stabbed viciously upwards scoring a glancing blow along the base of its neck. The creature reared to avoid [...]
Click here for more tales of Dr. Millie and her undead raven: Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V (1) Part V (continued 2) Part V (continued 3) Part VI Part VII *** Being an account of where our feathered friend went when he slipped off our heroine’s shoulder and tumbled into [...]
The woman on stage writhed like a snake, curling around the pole in ways that Jackson thought not humanly possible. Rado pulled his arm. “Can knees really bend like that, Jay?” Jackson shushed his friend and continued to watch spellbound as the woman climbed up the pole, turned upside down, and slid to the floor [...]
