Phantom Queen
Dark shadows danced across the stone walls, keeping step with the erratic fire. Staring into the hearth, I did my best to will the flames to reach out and consume me. I wanted them to burn this body...
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The Fiction My senses fill with the musky scent of sweat and soap and a long hard day. I float my hand across his cheek, hovering just above my own face, and feel the sandpaper bristle of his evening...
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Aaron’s mother showed up out of nowhere to move him from his home in Hartford Connecticut to an area of Virginia he had never heard of. Six months earlier she had left him in Hartford, stating that she...
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Coffee Time with Sarah “Wow … what a get up.” Jake hadn’t noticed the old woman until just now. A burgundy and white headscarf covered her head and bright silver hoop earrings hung from her ears....
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(for a brandname boy) We spared no expense, let me tell you, When we had that boy in ’32. His eyes were like sapphires, His nose a cut gem, His hair straight, short wires Just like Uncle Ben’s. But...
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Arnie had known when he bought the place that it had a local deity. The spirit lived in a spring that bubbled gently in the northeast corner of his yard until he had covered the whole area with mulch...
View ArticleApril 2013’s Contributors
Quantum Fairy Chris Coray is a computer geek by day, ghost hunter by night. He’s been writing Sci-Fi since his mother sneezed and gave birth to him in their space pod. Currently, he’s out of the...
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