The Pilgrim’s Redux
This story takes five years before The Pilgrim’s Digress. You can purchase the book from Terror House Press here. *** “Sir, did you forget your…
Happy Halloween
There was a chill in the air. Autumn had arrived, swirling leaves from the trees and lifting the smell of the soil towards me as I walked past the…
“Science in Death” and “Medicated”
Science in Death My father was a physicist. “Once you’re dead, you’re dead.” He died three years ago, with a DNR. For all his failings, he was my…
Unforgotten, Part 3
III. Dale is lifting his shoulders excessively as he speaks, “I know it was her; I was on the beach and I happened to look up at the pier. She was…
Someone Else’s God
An Iron Chef medallion replica goes for about a hundred bucks, or did in 2011, and the chef’s jacket with the embroidered logo was another hundred.…
Cheap House
“Let’s just bend the corners of the roof a little more,” Mauve suggested as they were stealing another house. “Otherwise, we’ll never get it out of…
The Gravel Pits
I sat tapping my pen lightly on the desk, waiting for the sweaty kid sitting across from me to gather his wits. The boy couldn’t have been more than…
Negro Supreme Buttsex Magick, Part 2
VIII. A white man in a generic cop uniform ate Lil Nas X’s ass on stage. The crowd was into it. Here and there, a shot rang out or a knife found…
Rain
Is it raining? she asked. What? Is it raining? I bent low to catch the sound. Her tongue slowly reached out to moisten her whitened lips. I held her…
Hungerford
In Australia, there is always somewhere further out with redder sand than where you are. The famous poet on a tour stops in a town that straddles a…
