Chapter 5 By Michael Chrobak Read Chapter 1 here, Chapter 2 here, Chapter 3 here and Chapter 4 here. “Wait, what?” my mind says loudly, though my mouth doesn’t engage, leaving the words trapped forever in silence. …
Category: Guest Pieces

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies
A guest fiction by author Dana Fraedrich The earth was quiet, still sleeping under a blanket of indigo and berry, dappled with faint stars on their way to bed. If midnight was the witching hour, this was …

The Dragon Seller Teaser
THE DRAGON SELLER by Federico Ferrario “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its …

Spirit of Detroit/It Shan’t Be Us
by Federico Ferrario Then we had been forgotten. The tide came and went with the strength of millions of lives. On breaking, it consumed the land and sent up the first chimneys blackening the windows and the …

The Graveyard: Chapter 2
The Graveyard: Chapter 2 Read chapter 1 here. Outside the door, I found a plain, boring, nondescript hallway. Every fifty feet or so stood another door, just like the one I had come out of. The hallway …

Absolute Threshold
ABSOLUTE THRESHOLD by Federico Ferrario Vision. Only if the night is clear and the gaze is serene they say you can see to the other side of the Channel, or from Belfast a flame in the dark …