It started late one night when I was lying on the sofa watching Two and a Half Men with my wife. We like to watch comedies since they’re relaxing. The pain pierced my head like an ice pick. It must have lasted just a second or two but it was so intense that I lost [...]
The room was dark and so was the silhouette that appeared to own it. There was a smell of musk and antiseptic, a mix the new arrival found unnerving. He bit his lip, not wanting to betray his trembling teeth. “It is about time that they die,” the silhouette said. The voice was deep but [...]
A PULP SERIAL ADVENTURE! to read the previous installment, click here… The three divers surveyed the scene ahead of them, suspended in the warm Mediterranean waters. At first glance, it appeared to be only a regular stony seabed, covered in marine plant life, lazily waving to the beat of the water’s current. Various small fish [...]
When he was five a physician had said that his perennially sickly disposition was due to a disagreement between his blood and the element of earth; he rubbed his eyes and said he had never seen anything like it. His recommendation was that the boy live as far off the ground as could be arranged; [...]
by Peter Farrugia The Man is injured, possibly dying. This is by no means unexpected (he has approached death in many different ways on a variety of occasions) and the wounds on his arm and leg do not worry him much. He ties a rag around his arm and works ashes into the gash on [...]
by Kris Green When someone drowns there is no titanic struggle, no flailing or shouting. There is just the silent grip of terror which pulls you down and down until the water closes over your head and you’re gone into the darkness and the quiet. I met her a month ago, I was with friends [...]
Grey. Everywhere. Grey skies, grey pavements, grey, featureless walls; a constant stream of grey, sagging bodies plodding endlessly without purpose. So this was Hell. It wasn’t quite as he had imagined: not nearly as much fire or torture as they’d led him to believe. Just drab and dreary – and so monotonous. If only he [...]
Click here for more tales of Dr. Millie and her undead raven (and the one-eyed villain of course): Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V (1) Part V (continued 2) Part V (continued 3) Part VI Part VII *** You will recall, dear reader, one young Eureka, whom we left after Imago [...]
…when you go to the same bar and nightclub every single summer night and you’re so bored that you can’t even imagine anything better. You can’t stay home because that’s even worse, but going out means seeing the same people in the same place doing the same thing. You stand in the corner of the [...]
He could not get his fingers to press the buttons on the phone, it was a disaster. The room was full and he could smell sweat of various persuasions – tinged either with weakening perfume or nothing at all, the gyrating bodies continuing on and on and on, Jenny doing the same, somewhere, him feeling [...]
