Voice: Hey, hey, you two! Nar: They stopped and stared into the gloom trying to make out who was calling them. They could faintly see the silhouette of a man in the alley. They stepped forward and into the darkness. Man: Hey, do you want a good time? Do you want some coke or some
Month: June 2011
by Peter Farrugia and Teodor Reljic I can’t decide whether my mouth is wet or dry. It almost hurts, how irrelevant that is, in light of what has happened, but the body speaks – shouts – its own language, and I am in a place where it cannot be stopped. I pant, feebly hacking the
by David Massengill i was thinking i’m 17 and a half-hour train ride from paris i can’t be sitting in this chain hotel restaurant watching my parents and little sister eat burgers so gross so i told them i was going to the hotel gym to work out they totally swallowed my lie with their
by Bettina Borg Cardona Standing in near pitch-blackness with mouth wide open, feet planted parallel -bare- hands tearing out matted hair at the bloodied roots, she was screaming. He was half jolted out of the narcoleptic stupor into which he found himself falling at intervals, eyes bewildered and bloodshot, veined with desire for even the
The sun is shining and Schlock is in the mood for adventure! Join our EXPLORATION issue through “innumerable vistas” and tempting worlds of exotic beauty, madness and wanderlust – there are steamy jungles, punch drunk pirates and a pixellated world all waiting to be discovered. Plunge on in, enjoy the stories, and leave your comments.
By Rachel Agius “Pirate?!” The sound of breaking porcelain and splintering wood followed the Admiral as he hastily made his way from the Captain’s quarters. He adjusted his hat after what appeared to be a peg leg sailed overhead and dislodged it. His men, two lanky youths who had taken to playing a card game
by Colin Meldrum “Am I the first to do it? Could I be the first woman to bare a son without first lying with a man? This is a new miracle to our tribes, but surely I won’t be the last to accomplish it.” The matriarch speaks to me with a quavering, staccato voice, as
by Nick Tramdack “It’s simple,” said Engineer03. “To make a great fantasy you need just two things. A bad guy they love to hate and a good guy they hate to love. You know, with flaws…” Engineer03 lowered a cup of tea from his mouth. Despite the greenish light flooding out of the bar and
by KC Wilder The most repulsive parasite to ever nest in human flesh measures 98 millimeters long. The giant cockroach. It’s believed to subsist for as long as 9 or 10 years by sucking all the juices out of human genitalia. Scientists call this a mutant insect parasite, genus giganticus genitalis cockroach. Its method for