Spidersilk, Spidersong
Young ballerinas grapple with personal demons and their relentlessly ambitious ballet instructor.
Meet the Mechanist
Avra Margariti
Avra Margariti is a queer Social Work undergrad from Greece. She enjoys storytelling in all its forms and writes about diverse identities and experiences. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Flash Fiction Online, The Forge Literary, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, SmokeLong Quarterly, and other venues. Avra won the 2019 Bacopa Literary Review prize for fiction. You can find them on Twitter @avramargariti.
Soft Eternity
She relinquished her control
Into my steady hands, the untamed part
Of her that had split open throats
And hearts through heaviest of armors.
The Architect
A young girl’s obsession with teeth escalates, until alien forces become involved.
The Domovoi
A strange mansion. A young servant. A rich couple. And a house spirit watching everything unfold.
Honey Bear
“Come outside, dearest mine.
Come taste the spring honey
drip-drip-dripping from every hive.” Read this dark poem by Avra Margariti.
Darkroom Liaisons
The poltergeists leave the darkroom the way they came: faceless. Read this beautiful poem by Avra Margariti, only on The Dread Machine.
The Brides of Dracula Ponder the Manson Murders
(What are humans but an amalgamation
of meat and electricity?) Read this unsettling poem by Avra Margariti.
