The Leopard’s Final Razor

A contest of beards in Leogang leads to a hairy discovery

The Old Kingdom Demands Its Childhood Heroes

A shotgun-wielding clown named Felix weaves his way through the lives of orphans and much stranger beings in a flooded futuristic London.

The Destruction of the World Will Go Viral

genre: fantasy

Looking Backward

A young explorer finds herself trapped at the beginning of a new Universe.

Emissary

He lived on a shelf of rock above a frozen sea. It was not home to him, and never had been. It was a space he occupied without inhabiting. He…

Notebooks; from the Plain of Jars.

This is how I remember that last morning.

Interchangeable Parts

An experimental short story about a man in a futuristic modular office building…

Frequency

A short experimental poem about morse code and monsters in the wilderness of the sea.

Lingering still

I had stayed up late the previous day and it showed: my head ached horribly. Still, a job had to be done.

There was a greasy feeling in the area when I arrived. I saw a red, shiny dust of sparks gathering up in the air. They flowed like waves in the sea, moving through the…

Old Nick’s Conviviality

When you enter a House of Horrors, what if the most horrifying thing inside is you…?

by T R Abbot-Cole

I hate carnivals.