In an alley-alcove behind 34th Street in Baltimore stand two businesses. One is a porn and sex-toys shop called “Honey”, which does not concern us here. Next to it is an establishment named “The Cauldron”, a small witchcraft store selling, as one would suppose, crystals, candles, and cauldrons to the city’s would-be Wiccan community. […]
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Day 1 Do not pity the fool for his predicament. The fool put himself in this predicament and does not deserve a way out. No mercy for the wicked is all that he will know for the rest of his soon to be shortened life. His life will be significantly shorter, not because of […]
Day 2 The room is dark, not a shred of light is getting in. I stand naked in the pitch black shaking with fear. I know what is coming, I’ve been here before. I may not be able to see my hand in front of my face but I know where I am. The chair […]
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Skin Rider – Greg Cole
Across the great sun-baked western plains before you hit the sea sat the dead end berg of Gravestone; the last stop on the line. But the train seldom rolled this far up the line nowadays; nobody was coming to this deadbeat town anymore. It was the sort of place where people go to get […]
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Little Lark – Alan Dale Dalby
We were not of two minds but of one. He was the mind that found the darkness hiding in the open as the light filled the world. I was the mind that could find a flicker of flame in the deepest tunnel and claw my way out. She was the connection that bound us together, […]
“The doll…a blind and hideous automatism dictated by the race…its vitality insuperable. The maternity instinct defies, even denies death. The doll, whether left upside down on the floor with broken teeth and ruined eyes, or lovingly arranged to be overlaid in the night, squashed, tortured, mutilated, survives all cruelties and disasters, and asserts finally its […]