Horror

by Keith Sutherland
On August 21, 2017 and again on April 8, 2024 the small
town of Kelso, Missouri will be in the path of totality of a solar
eclipse.
August 21, 2017:
“Do you miss your mother, Darryl?”
“I guess,” he replied.
“You’re okay with her not being around?”
He looked at me and shrugged his shoulders. “I have you, Dad.”
Standing [...]

by Kat Heckenbach
It started as a tingling in my hand.
I looked at the clock. Nearly midnight. No wonder. I’d been working since eight a.m. I was exhausted. Four hours of meetings, followed by lunch—which of course is just another word for a meeting with food. My ear actually started ringing from being on the phone [...]

by A.W. Sullivan
“She’s a troubled child…malcontent…since the accident…”
Eleven year old Tatyana tried to tune out the hurtful words as she played with a plain little doll that she had found in the doctor’s waiting room. Her twin sister, Sofia, sat reading in the chair opposite.
“Talks to herself…disturbed…crazy?”
Tatyana hated the sympathetic smile Sofia offered as Mother’s [...]

by Marc Colten
Do you have a cat? Do you hear him at night, howling at the stars as he weaves in and out of the shadows? Does he stare up at the walls, leaping up as if to grab something that isn’t there? It isn’t as cute as it sounds. Not [...]