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Trigger Warnings: Issue #15

Subject: S.E. by C.M. Barnes: TW: Death or dying The Theory of Haunting by Don Raymond: TW: Death or dying Cluttor Fold by Kyle Winkler:...

Editor's Note: Life is Happening

Dear Noctules: You may or may not have noticed that we've been falling behind on some of our ambitious plans for the year: publishing FF...

Artwork by Toeken

Original: TOEKEN is an artist currently residing in Spain. His work has been published in Utopia Science Fiction Magazine,Bards and Sages...

Subject: S.E. by C.M. Barnes

She watched the man approach the house on the security screen. He was not as tall as she had expected—and definitely not as old. She...

The Theory of Haunting by Don Raymond

Horror, like gravity, is relative to its observer: We carry our dead with us like a cloak made of memories. The specter that haunts a...

Writer's Spotlight: Kyle Winkler

Process Notes: I lived in Pittsburgh and was riding the bus to work one day when the paper shadow idea hit me. The first line of the...

Clutter Fold by Kyle Winkler

1. In Brep, every other child was born-paper. Clutter Acyron only ever heard ways to shed his paper shadow and gain a true one. Growing...

Artwork by Jorge Iracheta

JORGE IRACHETA is a freelancer designer and digital artist from Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. His specialty is comic-like horror...

Writer's Spotlight: Joseph Lewis

Process Notes: This story was written during the pandemic shutdown. Sadly, I didn’t need to look very far for inspiration for this one. I...

The Last Golden Hour by Joseph Lewis

Miriam stood at the window, watching the night sky change from yellow to orange to blood-red, I looked down at the game of solitaire on...

Radio Silence by James Owens

The sun has no mercy on the naked scree above the last trees. Climbing toward the shack perched on the crest, Neil wipes sweat out of his...

YOU.KNOW.ME by MLHart

The crack in the wall seemed to appear from nowhere. One day there was an ordinary, smooth expanse, and the next there was plaster, dust,...

Trigger Warnings: Issue #14

YOU.KNOW.ME by MLHart: TW: Death or dying The Last Golden Hour by Joseph Lewis: TW: Abuse of the elderly | Death or dying Radio by James...

Editor's Note: A Missing Piece

Dear Noctules: It’s been nearly a year since the world descended into the complete and utter chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic. For the...

Black Aftermath by Thomas Piekarski

I stared Genocide square in the eye, accused it of being a foreign spy. It laughed and said I had no business injecting facts about its...

The Impermanence of Things Ruins Her Life by Andrey Pissantchev

She wakes up with a sense of foreboding that tells her the alarm should have gone off by now. She is correct. She jumps out of bed in a...

The Harvest Moon Beckons by Avra Margariti

The old women who were once girls converge in the field like ley lines shedding their dresses like cicada coats they kiss and the earth...

Double-Layered Shotgun by Scott Bryan

Meredith had begun the drive in good spirits, eager to look out the window at the passing countryside, hopeful that they would find her...

Match-Man by Alex Norton

Kev started seeing them around the corner of 6th Street and Prospero. He assumed they were hallucinations at first, but they also looked...

Open Up the Storm by Elizabeth Rubio

Cate doodled leaves in her notebook as Mr. Bell paced at the front of the classroom, mumbling something about nonrenewable resources. She...

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