OCTOBER TERROR 2018 Short Story Award – Entry #58 “Daddy’s Girl” by Andrew Lennon
Scott stood at the front door, trying to build the confidence to knock. He wasn’t sure how to. What was the protocol? If he knocked [Read more…]
Scott stood at the front door, trying to build the confidence to knock. He wasn’t sure how to. What was the protocol? If he knocked [Read more…]
The drive to the Redwood Mega-Mart was far from comfortable. Lynsey hadn’t spoken to me for over an hour and had continued with the awkward [Read more…]
“Debs, Debs,” cried Gavin. “She’s back.” “What?” Deborah leaned against the front door. It clicked shut. “Who?” “Nan.” Deborah sighed as she deposited her handbag [Read more…]
Gerald unlocked the half dozen locks he had installed on his apartment door, swinging the door wide then moving off to the side to [Read more…]
THE PLACE STANK. Harvey Dellar groped blindly for an adjective or metaphor adequate enough to describe the rank scent. He failed. The writer’s block was [Read more…]
Ladies and Gentlemen! Be very welcome to our “HORROR DUNGEON RELEASE PARTIES” Night Sky Book Services (headed by Roma Gray) and The Bold Mom (headed [Read more…]
I engaged the handbrake, switched off the engine and leaned back against the head restraint. Spot on 7 p.m. I’d always been one of those [Read more…]
I gazed through the glass out over the estate. It was still the same shithole it had been when I was growing up here. Nothing [Read more…]
As Jaime stepped out of the shower, his rail thin body dripping, he reached for a towel. The loose metal towel rack jangled as he [Read more…]
Want to know what Evelyn’s two biggest fears are? Snakes and stumbling upon a dead body. Weird, right? Maybe not the fear of snakes, because [Read more…]
By the time he arrived at the window the attack had already begun. The afternoon sunlight gave the scene a frighteningly surreal quality, something [Read more…]
When it all finally went horribly wrong, nobody really understood. All her friends, meaning to be kind and sympathetic, only seemed to criticise. “He’s a [Read more…]
Markus cups his hands as far around the enormous tankard in front of him as he can manage and lowers his head towards the brim. [Read more…]
“I’m just a pretty girl who will soon be forgotten.” —Norma Jeane [Read more…]
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