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Don’t Forget to Water the Plants
Rosa lived alone. Rosa had always lived alone. Rosa had become late middle-aged; she never had a cat, though by looking at her, one would ...
The Voice in the Well
What awaits, is waiting for us all along. There’s no changing that. The dug bore well had been on the property for 200 years, they ...
Dead Ringer
I am as accurate as a bullet without discrimination. I always have been. I am the unpretentious sort with calculated intent. I use big words, ...
Wake Screaming
The night brings its phantasms, its lucid dreams and devilish nightmares, but it can also wake a sleeping man to sheer terror and mounting confusion, ...
Just Another Day at the Office
In the place unseen by the living lies a world so deep that time is forgotten and years are not measured. No longer in the ...
Appointment with Death
Aldous Woolfe was a man of means. He was a doer and never procrastinated at anything. If he was supposed to do something, you could ...
Island of the Dolls
No matter where I go, there is always fright. Like an alcohol burn in my throat, like an acid that burns like hell. No matter ...
Shenandoah
“There must be a God.” I have never been a religious man, yet this, I found scrawled on the top line, several pages in my ...
The Blue Bear
“We got a serious unnerstandin’ gap here.” Joe shook his head, fishing out a Marlboro from his shirt pocket. “I don’t need th’ money that ...
Charlotte and the Harlot
Tobey glanced around the bar with a drunken agenda clearly reading across his unshaven face. At this time in the morning, only a few regulars ...
The Prince
I light another cigarette. My lips, pursed upon the filter, draw the tobacco to ignite as my lungs crowd with smoke. I had quit the ...
