by Thomas Pluck When you make a pact with Satan, it doesn’t come with a protection plan like at the electronics store. It’s all like at the used car lot, as-is, and if the shit breaks down and throws a rod before you leave the lot then you are screwed, man: Satan’s sitting on the [...]
by Peter Farrugia In this small dark kitchen an hour or so before dawn a little old lady has begun her final, great work. She brushes breadcrumbs to the edge of a large wooden table and catches the crumbs in the hollow of her hand. The table is notched all over with a pattern of [...]
The walls were green with slime, here and there patches of shit brown which was probably shit, mixing with grey sludge, from some old drainage system. It was pretty apocalyptic, but there were no zombies, though you’d have wondered what the creatures were by the way they wandered about mindlessly, and went around bashing [...]
November is an odd month – sitting somewhere between the start of Autumn (if you’re lucky enough to live in a land enjoying the joys of the season – we don’t) and the kick off to Winter Solstice Celebrations. And, for some reason, it’s the month for internet-based challenges– National Beard Month, Movember, The 30 [...]
“Do you understand what you have to do?” Her voice shook my entire body. I was aflame with her words. She raked her foot long talons down my back. My skin burst like over-ripe red fruit, gushing sweet blood that she licked with a snakelike tongue, so wet, so wet. I moaned and nodded She [...]
