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December 1, 2024
The Man in the Hourglass
When he came to, the man was sprawled face-down over a bed of rough rocks. A sound drifted away, familiar ...
December 1, 2024
Punishment Most Fine
Despite his vocation, Titus Gondelbert had no fondness for corpses. Every Sunday there was a new batch: cut down from ...
December 1, 2024
Changeling
Nobody has been up here except me for three months. Save the night ones. Nobody wants to be up here, ...
December 1, 2024
The Trouble That Came To Erwin Baldridge
Erwin Baldridge lived in a run-down house on Caney Creek. Each week he went to Mt. Sterling to buy more ...
December 1, 2024
Snow At the End of The World
I was taking my trash out when a massive sound shook the neighborhood. In the middle of a snowstorm the ...
December 1, 2024
Beholder
Jeff’s self-made promise that he’d use his day off in pursuit of relaxation rather than worry, fractured when the roadwork ...
December 1, 2024
The Devil’s Polka
I pulled the van into a side alley. Jimmy met me at the hotel's fire exit, the young woman slung ...
December 1, 2024
Predators
Ben’s partner had been back for three days, and he was still waiting for him to come home. ‘Home’ was ...
December 1, 2024
Atonement Point
Bill Richards wasn’t the type of man to drive aimlessly throughout the city, yet, for the past two hours, he’d ...
December 1, 2024
Heathen
AD 1865 It was late morning when Arthur Keane arrived at the brow of the hill and saw the farmhouse. Aside ...