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Litterbugs, by BanWynn Oakshadow
By this point the sails are so much confetti trailing micro-fiber lines. We look like a poorly tricked-out Bakian punk’s jumper. We figured that we might as well call this deploy “solar sails” since...
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The Cubicle from Beyond Space and Time, by D.A. Madigan
It was Tuesday, and Kenneth Cooke, newly promoted from training status to the actual troubleshooting floor, was looking for an empty cubicle. His shift started at 10 am, and while that was cool for...
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Hollow Deep, by Edward Taylor
<<Beginning of starlog – James Orne, Mate Second Class, Investigator, ILWC>> Seventy One Terran Standard days ago I left New St. John’s in the United Canadian Emirates aboard the...
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The Mythos Planet, by Kevin Morley
Image by Nottsuo – nottsuo.deviantart and at Wikipedia (Shoggoth) We fought the Xanee for more than a generation. It seems our peoples don’t mix well, though we do each die with some degree of...
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Pseudopod, by Karen Bovemyer
First published in Abyss & Apex magazine, in June 2015. After Lovecraft’s Dunwich Horror The skin was thickly covered with coarse black fur, and from the abdomen a score of long greenish-grey...
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Issue #20: The Mythos Planet
Lovecraft inspired. Newly imagined and terrifying vistas populated with horrific monstrosities. No one is safe anywhere. We can go to the Old Ones or the New Ones. Or they come to us. Invading our...
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The Hand of God, by Abdul-Qaadir Bakari-Muhammad
“And behold in the end the truth was finally told” (The Last Council of Cataclysmic Affairs) Until now I never had complete dominion over the vast darkness of space. I worked amongst other entities...
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The Top of the Stairs, by Joe DiCicco
Nathan shivered against the chill, turned to the door. As he did, his eyes passed the staircase across the patio. It ran up from the far corner, up to the next floor. From the darkness up there he...
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Cupid’s Journal, by Leonard White
Molly sighed, staring at the Christmas lights while twisting a strand of hair around her finger. She had done this so much that she had one tight curl floating beside her ear. “Girl, you got it bad.”...
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The Shadow Puppets, by Leah Mueller
Punch rested sideways in the closet, wooden head pressed against the floor. Judy’s body lay spread-eagled on top of his-not provocatively, but in a martial manner, holding him in check. Punch’s stage...
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The Catch, by Ray Daley
The surface of the lake had been far too still. For how many minutes now? Three perhaps? Four? Crane didn’t even know how long the slave could hold its miserable breath. He knew that three credits had...
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A Little Bit of Mercy, by David M. Hoenig
“Hey, Jurgen: what do you call a human breeder who works in a saloon?” The speaker was just shy of eight feet tall with scaly, green skin, voice carrying over the howl of the wind outside. Her...
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Stone Cold Beauty, by Diane Arrelle
Electra used to shudder every night at bedtime. She needed her beauty sleep, but hated sharing her bed with that gnome-like creature; all ears and nose and lips with a belly so big she was afraid he’d...
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She Who Controls the Wind, by Kenneth C. Goldman
Trista led the young man to the mountaintop. That morning he had made the dark-haired beauty his wife, and she understood she must bring him to this exact spot before she could give herself to him....
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Mr. Somewhere, by C.M. Crockford
The doors of Sebastian’s opened and I spilled out along with a hundred other goth kids. Trish and Thomasina wanted to keep the night going but after some snuck-in tequila and endless dancing to “No...
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Issue #21: PhotoFlash 1—Eleven Visions
11 images. 11 authors. 11 stories. I posted several images and asked for authors to pick an image on a first come/first serve/calling shotgun basis and then send me their story plots. I received a...
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