TABLE OF CONTENTS
Every dreadful thing we’ve ever published.
Betobeto Teketeke
I’m going to tell you a story, but on one condition: it must be read out loud.
Digital Ghouls
Ciphers flicker and spin like firemoths in the lambent glow // Bending and twisting in cyclone contortions // Trembling at the touch of my haptic caress
House—Unpainted
A house down the street catches my attention. It sits half painted, the other half peeling white, with a quarter of the driveway paved. The cracks are still visible. A shadow passes by one window in the upper level. It looks like my daughter. I know it can’t be. I left her shadow inside the new house.
A Holiday Romance
An alluring insect seduces an unhappily married man on a second honeymoon with his equally unhappy wife.
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