The Woman in the Hill - Nightmare Magazine

This is the last time I intend ever to write to you. Though you may take this letter as a freak or crank, I ask that you reconsider how likely it is that I would write such madness—that is, unless I knew it were the truth. In my need to convince you I will lay out the events using only fact—what I saw with my own eyes and have subsequently acted upon based on rational belief—and at the last, pray to God you believe me. I know you heard the gossip and the insinuation surrounding my young friend Elizabeth W—.

Becoming Miss Pennyworth

A novel way to escape.

Mr. Death - Apex Magazine

I’ve ferried two hundred and twenty-one souls across the river of death, and I can already tell my two-hundred-and-twenty-second is going to be a real shitkicker. I know by the lightness of the manila folder in my hand, the preemptive pity in the courier’s face as she gives it to…

Cold Relations - Uncanny Magazine

Claudette lowered her infrared goggles over her eyes and waited for the ghost. By the cash register, webs of energy, tinted green by the goggles, swirled in a loose spiral. Spectral lines tightened in time with a throbbing hum of energy. As she walked closer, Claudette’s hair stood on end along her neck, and the […]

Four Glass Cubes (Item Description) — Baffling Magazine

by Bogi Takács ”Four glass cubes, with colorful pieces of paper sticking out of them…”

Granny’s Spider - The Arcanist

When my husband’s Granny turned eighty, she started wearing an eye patch. My father-in-law said she had eye issues since he was a kid. Her many precious great-grandbabies called her a pirate and…

The Year of the Rat : The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing

Heart of My Heart, Soul of My Soul by Jelena Dunato, Haven Spec Magazine

Fiction and Poetry for the 21st Century!

The Tails That Make You - Fantasy Magazine

Ninth - It is a few days before your suspicions are confirmed. Perhaps it is the baggy trousers your daughter has started to wear, or that she picks at her food. She will lie if you ask her outright, this you know. You throw her bedroom door open without warning, the damp towel clutched around her chest after the shower the only barrier between you. Her mouth hangs open, shrieking like brakes in protest.

Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Accountability, and Other Myths of Old Earth by Aimee Ogden