Tag: short story
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Blood Debt
This story is by EC Dorgan. It is appearing online for the first time here, but was originally published in The Dread Machine Issue 3.3, available in paperback and Epub. The doctors call it bad blood, but you know you’ve stumbled on something bigger. And so you find yourself in front of a steakhouse, lips…
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How to Determine if Your Grandmother Has Been Replaced by a Fairy and What to Do About It
This story was written by Greta Hayer. It is appearing online for the first time here, but was originally published in The Dread Machine Issue 3.3, available in paperback and Epub. 1. If you show up to your grandmother’s house on a Sunday afternoon for iced tea and bourbon on the front porch and immediately…
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#BloodBossBabes by Rachel Kolar
Originally published by Podcastle, March 2021. Hey Girl! From: Amy Shearer (serpentsisteramy@sotesh.com) To: Heather McBride (mcheather@ymail.com) Hey, girlfriend! Love looking at your beautiful family on Insta. And congrats on getting into grad school—that’s HUGE! Furthering your education while raising a family takes so much dedication, and that’s why I think you’d be AMAZING on my…
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Under Pressure by R. L. Meza
At the bottom of the Mariana Trench, Death is a misplaced pinprick, a hairline crack. Owen hears Death tapping at the exterior, testing the structural integrity of the habitat. Irregular ticking echoes through the lab, as if the light deprivation has thrown an invisible clock off-kilter, altering the nature of time itself. Days pass in…
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Where is Daniel DeSoto? by Andrew Kozma
So there I was, throwing rocks at Daniel’s window. Not pebbles. Rocks. The kind that star the glass with cracks if you don’t get the fuck up and answer the window, Daniel. I picked up a rock with some heft, and knew I’d have to throw it at the siding of the townhome or it’d…