With the Apocalypse on its way, Schlock has decided to celebrate our total annihilation in an issue of epic proportions. There’s stories, articles and poems, along with exceptional illustrations and photographs. The end may be nigh but it’s not all doom and gloom: amidst the wailing and gnashing of teeth, there’s a liberal dose of [...]
by Bettina Borg Cardona Below is a sequence of dreams – perhaps ‘nightmares’ would be a more accurate term – of which I attempt to give here a detailed account, in an effort to describe them as they originally passed through the mind of the dreamer – in this case, my own. One wonders whether [...]
by Teodor Reljic Picturing the end of the world is far too tempting. Even if every fibre of your rational brain rails against the inherent morbidity in imagining the world – the entire world, your world – being blown to smithereens by natural-cum-celestial disaster, you just can’t help it, can you?
by Manuel Royal In the overhead mirror, I watched my passengers nodding off. The gabble of conversations had been so constant for the last hour that I no longer noticed it; when it died down within a few minutes, my ears rang in the relative quiet and I could focus on my driving. Humphrey Jessup [...]
by A. A. Garrison Killing myself was the last on my list of fears to conquer, after Get beat up by jerks. I took to this final fear immediately after leaving the ER, still wearing my PUNCH ME YOU ASS tee-shirt. The other me took a long six months to manufacture; the world-class art career, [...]
by Ron Scheer The town library at Prairie Creek fit into three old crates kept in a storage room where the school teacher lived. Virgil Case, the current teacher, used the books–or what was left of them–to teach reading. His young scholars cut their teeth on the likes of John Grisham, Louis L’Amour, and Reader’s [...]
by Julie Jansen Time and space are dead and gone. Time slept through the lunch hour, and upon realizing the mistake, skipped out on the entire population of Planet Earth.
by Joseph Farley The Guardians of Armageddon sit at a table playing games, Monopoly & chess, even Battleship. They drink beer and nibble nacho chips, emit toxic gases from their asses, and mow down trees and men. *** Joseph Farley edited Axe Factory for 24 years. His books /chapbooks include Suckers, For the Birds, Longing [...]
by Robert William Iveniuk “Pass the can,” Olson begged, his hand making a pathetic grasping motion at his associate. Wind blew through the old store, sending scraps of paper and shredded cardboard across the ground. Emptied shelves flanked the duo, and burnt-out lights hung above their heads. Long-dead and withered, a man in tattered clothes [...]
