I cannot believe you’re dead, Mother. I cannot believe you’re not sitting up from your deathbed to count the crinkles on my tunic and the unplucked hair on my chin. I still brace for impact as I roll out my harvesting knives and lay out my jars and pouches, expecting to hear how I’m doing […]
I’d always wanted to have a child, but I never imagined that in order to earn that right, I would have to give birth to the Emperor.After only two months of pregnancy but intense hours of labor, the Emperor’s fully formed homunculus emerged through my birth canal, clad in a blood-stained gold and purple robe, […]
“I don’t want to be disturbed,” she yelled through the locked door. “That means you are a single father for the next forty-five minutes.”Her husband may have answered; she didn’t care. She turned the water on to a roar and as soon as it rose, she sunk her ears beneath it.Salt, copious salt. Poured out […]
After we burned her with acid, I started sketching.Rich would’ve burned my drawings, except I wanted to report what we did—what they did, and when I started penciling in my dingy apartment, I stopped with the I can’t sleep, we gotta tell. Just a joke, Rich said. I stayed back because I didn’t want anything to […]
Afterwards, Marty and I erected two tiny crosses under the willow next to the remains of the barn, even though we hadn’t found them.We’d screamed their names from the doorframe against a howling wind, a pea soup sky. The silo ripped free of its moorings, steel screeching like a murderous banshee. They cowered in the […]
1. Begin by making an incision at the anus. A large scalpel will do. The anus is located inferior to the anal fin, roughly two palms away from the humanoid/ichthyic seam. Since she is much bigger than a human woman, nearly twice in length and width, with a tough scaled hide, you might encounter resistance. […]
When Sister leaves me, I am ten and she is fifteen. She gives five extra twists to the secret key in my spine to make sure I do not wake, one for each year she is older.We live in a home of clear glass atop a sighing marsh, where our walls sink each year and […]
The dead whale washed ashore with a hole in its stomach so wide you could drive a truck through it. Clarence came with other parents to stare at its size and smell its briny rot and wonder how something so large could have ever been alive in the first place. He shivered when he saw […]
Weird horror for us has a sticky quality. It tends to stay around long after the story is over. All successful horror can linger in the mind of the reader, but weird horror for us goes one step further. Instead of confirming the nightmares you already have, it reveals the wrongness that has always existed […]