Month: April 2021

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Jeff Ronan

The Forever Friends

The Forever Friends is five-year-old Billy’s favorite show. He couldn’t imagine life without Lucy Goosey, Golly-Gee, the twins Tuck & Tick, and their leader, Hambone. If he’s lucky, he won’t have to imagine.

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Mark Towse

Bucket of Chicken

A fried chicken-addicted off-duty cab driver with chronic acid reflux returns to his vehicle to find a cash-rich passenger in the back seat.

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MelissaElborn

Mother’s Milk

Alone in a ‘smart’ house that her often absent husband controls, baby-obsessed Rachel develops an unhealthy addiction that she believes will make her pregnant, but at what cost?

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Selah Janel

Give and Take

It’s easy to forget the reasons for traditions, and unfortunately, just as easy to suffer the consequences.

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Alin Walker and Monica Louzon

Why We Don’t Expect Writers to be Public Figures

As social media gained popularity, publishers and agents began expecting writers to come with their own platforms and share themselves and their lives online in service of building a customer base. At The Dread Machine, we don’t.

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Kevin M. Folliard

Chickenscratch

Forced to live with unfriendly relatives on an Arkansas farm, Cooper accepts strange chicken feed from a sinister salesman that impacts the chickens in unexpected ways.

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Andrey Pissantchev

Twenty Seven

Linda Long, promising vocal artist, lives in fear of becoming a member of the 27 Club—a list of popular musicians who died at the age of twenty-seven. To ensure she makes it to twenty-eight, she takes off a year, but music is her soul, and she’s having a hard time resisting the stage.

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