FREE STORY SUNDAYS: I CAN ONLY WAIT FOR THE FINAL AMNESIA

FREE STORY SUNDAYS: THE SLITHER AND THE CRUSH

This version of Free Story Sundays is one of my favourites. The Slither and the Crush was first published in Eidolotry #3: Horror From The Great White North. It’s out of print now, but in honour of Halloween this past Thursday I will drag it screaming out of the grave for you to read.

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FREE STORY SUNDAYS – HOSPITAL ON A HILL

Every other Sunday is Free Story Sunday, with another story brought out of the archive for your reading pleasure. Believe only the things you see in front of you and then only half of that.

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Free Scary Stories for Spooky Season

ANTHOLOGIES OF THE DAMNED: NOW ALIIIIIIIVE

My Mother Told Me A Ghost Story Once

From Hiraeth: Dark As Life features dark stories of trying to stay alive under dismal living condItions. Some of those conditions are created by ourselves, others are created for us. A teenage girl is punished for her interest in science fiction. A traveler comes home to a place she has never been. A revenant seeks revenge against her enemies and her friends. You’ll find all this and more on these pages. Turn them carefully.

Contents
 Stories
Devotional by Tyree Campbell
The Girl in 114 by Trevor James Zaple
coming back home to a place I’ve never been by Laney Gaughan
 Flash Fiction
Home Schooled by G. O. Clark
Siren With the Soft Sign by Nadia Gerassimenko
 Poems
Slavery by Yuliia Vereta
An Acquired Taste by Debby Feo
Satan’s Voice by Peter MacQuarrie
A Dead Wizard’s Dust by Matthew Wilson
Features
Movie Review: King on Screen by Lee Clark Zumpe

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Do You Wanna Hear A Scary Story?

Do you like long winter nights? Live for the thrill of wondering what’s lurking in your closet at 3 AM? Know what it means when someone calls a certain time of night “The Witching Hour”? Put your feet down in the middle of the night expecting to feel a cold, bony hand grasp your ankle?

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Enter a trilogy of chilling volumes where darkness reigns and fear is a constant companion. The Anthologies of the Damned brings together thirteen masterful storytellers per book, each weaving a unique and terrifying tale that will leave you looking over your shoulder and questioning your sanity.

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Text Mining: Roadwork

The third Bachman novel, Roadwork, is another portrait of a seethingly angry man acting out against his grievances with society. In Rage, the protagonist dealt with his anti-social angst by taking his classroom hostage and killing two teachers. In The Long Walk, the protagonist deals with it by joining a ghastly game show that runs people down to their deaths. Roadwork is a little less kinetic than either; the protagonist here, George Dawes, simply gives into inertia and refuses to progress along with everyone else. A highway extension is slated to destroy an old suburban neighbourhood and Dawes is in charge of finding both a new house to live and a new location for the industrial laundry he works for. In an act of rebellion against the inherent unfairness of the situation, he decides to do neither. He refuses to vacate his property, and ends up getting shot and killed in a stand-off with the police.

Interstitial Burn-Boy Blues

Stuart watched the kid shake and mutter to himself in the seat across the aisle. His skin looked waxy in the dingy interior bus lights, and Stuart was sure that if he reached across and caressed the kid’s forehead with the back of his hand that skin would be near to scalding. He ran his tongue along the back of his teeth and watched the kid carefully. No one else in the general vicinity seemed to be concerned. Stuart noticed an old man dozing in the seat behind the kid, and a young couple murmuring to each other beneath a blanket in the seat ahead of him.

50 Days Of Soundcloud #14

“Beggar”

I may have skipped a day. Eh.

This one is a filler track from Temporarily Abandoned Profiles, but one that I remember fondly. Brash, aggressive, noisy, almost punk rock. Good times.