“The Dark Room”
by Cecilia Tan
I hate committees. I hate meetings. Much as I love my fellow committee members, we always get sidetracked into debating if the group should boycott Facebook (if only) or whether the endorphin high from relentless edging can lead to hallucinations (an urban myth—and don’t try Tide Pods either). But I must admit sometimes good ideas come out of collective brainstorming.
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“Eyes Wide Shut”
by Elvyra Venus
The moon was full, the trick-or-treaters finally home in bed, and a few teens lingered on the streets throwing eggs and keying cars. I centered the bowl full of grave dirt, murderer cremains, and my blood on the gravesite and lit the white candle pressed into the muck. Though I’d purchased the $2 candle at the craft store, I had spent hours carving sigils and circles into it, the physical manifestation of my will for this spell to work.
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“A Little Magic in Me”
by Avery Vanderlyle
“Dude, I always knew we’d end up like this.”
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“The Offering”
by Jennifer Williams
“Fuck,” I whisper.
His magic sings across my skin as my eager cunt pushes on empty air. My body is pulled taut, bound in iron round my neck, wrists, and ankles. Not that I need it. I’m exactly where I want to be. The room is dark and I imagine it is cool. I can see the shadow of damp stone walls surrounding us and I smell the must of neglect and decay.
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“Desire”
by DJ Tyrer
She beckons in the mist to follow her down steps into the darkness below.
It smells musty, like earth after the rain. Not horrible.
She’s no more than shadow, but I hear movement within the vault, her dress hitting the floor.
Offers a hand with thin, sharp fingers. I take it.
We kiss. No lips touch mine, just bare teeth, fleshless cheeks.
I don’t care. The urge is too strong. We become one.
Flesh melts away. Flesh grows.
In the furnace of our climax, she is reborn and I feel my consciousness burn away to the clatter of falling bones.
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DJ Tyrer is the person behind Atlantean Publishing, editor of View From Atlantis webzine, and has had flash fiction published in anthologies and magazines around the world, such as Apples, Shadows and Light (Earlyworks Press), and Journals of Horror: Found Fiction (Pleasant Storm Entertainment), issues of Sirens Call, and Tigershark, and on Cease Cows, The Flash Fiction Press, Space Squid, and Trembling With Fear.
https://djtyrer.blogspot.co.uk/
“Danse Macabre / Memento Vivere”
by Bernie Mojzes
You’d think we’d be beyond all this by now.
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“Cloudless Climes and Starry Skies”
by A. C. Quill
In the autumn of Jenna’s life, the opportunity arose for her to live on another planet.
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