Sometimes we have to do mundane tasks at work before heading home for the night. Sometimes those mundane tasks turn terrible.
Philip Roberts lives in Nashua, New Hampshire and has been published in a variety of publications, such as the Epitaphs anthology, Midnight Echo, and The Horrorzine. A full anthology of Philip’s short stories entitled Passing Through can be found on the Amazon kindle store. More information on his works can be found at www.philipmroberts.com.
If you were followed, obsessed over, and haunted each and every day of your life how would you feel? How would you cope? Aaron Shotwell’s “The Owl” is just about that.
By: Aaron Shotwell
Aaron Shotwell is a 27-year-old student of Media Arts and Animation, an aspiring author, screenwriter and director. He currently has two large projects underway; co-authoring a screenplay to be submitted by the end of this year, and a collection of horror short stories
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J. Weintraub, L.A. Fields, Cortney Philip, Mackenzie Wilson, Gibson Culbreth, Cynthia (cina) Pelayo, Melanie Hanson, Jordan Scrivner
This past July, Friday the 13th, Burial Day Book hosted a Campfire Reading at Uncharted Books. Many wonderful writers read their work. This is a sampling of stories from that evening.
Biographies of the Sampling
Gibson Culbreth is a girl named after a guitar. She is the editor-in-chief of a small up and coming zine called “I Feel Pretty” (http://ifeelprettyonline.com/
M. N. Hanson is a postmodern deconstructivist, an aspiring astronaut, a proponent of the Oxford comma, and a recent graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA in writing. Please visit http://mnhanson.com/ to complain.
Cortney Philip writes fucked up fairy tales for grown-ups who aren’t.
Mackenzie Wilson’s work has appeared in the Logan Square Literary Review. She write flash fiction and a little bit of poetry. Her tumbler, ChicagObservations (http://chicago-observations.
Click here for a PDF of Campfire Stories.
We’ve all had that ‘one’ we loved because they made us better, but what happens when a storm isn’t really a storm and something is taken away?
By: Matthew McLachlan
Matthew McLachlan is an experienced actor from Pennsylvania. He has starred in many theatrical productions including the lead role of the demon Hurmizah in “Teibele and Her Demon.” He currently writes short horror fiction while working on his upcoming novel. Check out his website at: matthewseanmclachlan.
Click here for a PDF of Risk of Rain.
Gerin is not entirely sure where he’s going, or even why he’s going there. When he arrives at a strange town he learns of an even stranger pageant.
By: Mark Slade
Mark Slade lives in Williamsburg, VA with his wife and daughter, a Pomeranian and a Chihuaha. The Town Pageant is his first published story. For more about Mark Slade visit http://bloodydreadful.
Click here for a PDF of The Town Pageant. Continue reading “The Town Pageant” »
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