Horror

by Jack Potchen
Ben Downs took a long drag of his cigarette.  A young woman named Amy Moore sat across from him at the table.  She was a stranger to him.  She was no more than twenty-five but Ben could see the age in her eyes. The eyes of a woman whose seen too much, he thought.  [...]

by J Westlake
We’d eaten the dog.
There hadn’t been much meat on it, and it was a small thing anyway – a terrier. Starving, too. You could see the shapes of bones through its skin as it scurried across our path. Ben and Miller had given chase, if you could call it that. I just stood [...]

by Philip Roberts
Even in the depths of summer, Warren never wore short sleeves, but the prospect of the sale made him forget, and he rolled up his sleeves without thought.
Thankfully the client didn’t see a thing, too lost in paperwork and future planning to notice, but Blake, Warren’s boss, wasn’t quite as distracted, and called [...]

by Nancy Widrew
“Good morning, sweetheart. How’s our birthday girl?”
I scamper down the stairs of the farmhouse, eager for the day to begin. My mother stands at the bottom landing, arms open, waiting for my hug. My father, directly behind her, smiles. We had taken the train to Liberty, New York the day before, just as [...]