Greetings and Salutations friends, It’s been a while since I’ve contributed an article to this section of the website so I am rectifying that right now. Every Sunday I am going to be posting what I feel is the best Indy short I’ve seen during the week. This week I am starting off with Seizure […]
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Noferatu, where are you?
Vampires, what do you think of when you hear that word? Hopefully your thoughts drift towards vicious blood thirsty creatures of the night; the tales of Dracula and Van Helsing. Unfortunately there is a generation that will not associate the word “vampire” with these things. Instead they will think of a certain franchise most famous […]
The Brief Marriage of Vivian Stack […]
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The Closet – Roya Hill
The Closet “There!” Nina said, examining her work. “It’s all done.” Emily admired her newly straightened hair in the mirror. Her hair was a lighter brown than Nina’s was and naturally curly. Nina had spent the last two and a half hours straightening it. It was a warm Saturday night and their […]
Layne sat quietly by the window. The drapes were drawn, which was quite unusual. She peered out with guarded eagerness, although she knew she shouldn’t. It was forbidden but she was young and the young don’t always do what is expected of them. Outside the dreary clouds hung low, this all but drowned […]
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. […]
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, […]