"As the pastor droned on, a face peeped out from behind the doors of the church that led to the hallway."
Read "The Green Shirt with the Cat On It" in The Bookends Review. "Garzis always held a grimy, lit cigarette in his left hand. His wings had fallen off."
Read "The Boy's Moldy Wings" in Typehouse Literary Magazine. "When the old people disappeared, usually around the ages of seventy or eighty, the garbage in that river was always to blame."
Read "Lauceville" in The Molotov Cocktail. "The sliver of moon, it eventually dissolves in my mouth, melting into my tongue before the argument between moonpickers ever resolves."
Read "Moonpickers" in Jersey Devil Press. "When she was transforming, she was so much like the sea, wild and unpredictable. But when she was human, she moved like a butterfly, gently, gracefully…"
Read "The Wife of Fabian Vitalik" in Metaphorosis. "Dreamlike, I wafted into the store each day, accepting the memories that clients no longer wanted, drifting to and fro as if on a high wind."
Read "The Woes of Sniffy the Candle Company" in Menacing Hedge. "Her father caught the bluish mark while she was unwrapping a scarf after school and became so angry he threw a Bible against the wall."
Read "Marva" in Rathalla Review. "She melts the ingredients in a pot atop a stove, swirling the bubbling brain liquid with silver tongs."
Read "Caught Between" in After the Pause. "A rustling noise. Two shapes stalked toward her, holding ropes and knives that glinted in dim starlight."
Read "Persuade Me" in Fabula Argentea. "Death looked rather feminine that day: her scabbed skin swelled over her chest like a reptilian replica of breasts, she wore a burgundy curtain that resembled a dress, and she had grown out strings of flesh-colored hair that brushed the floor."
Read "Death's Armchair by the Sea" in Luna Station Quarterly. "She breathed water. Captain Luren woke up, as did every other man aboard the ship, and all wanted to touch her because her skin was made of crushed pearls."
Read "Selkie's Song" (18+) in Score. "The girl and her new boyfriend, Caden, were sending kissing emojis back and forth when she noticed the first weed poking through her pillow's lacy case like a naughty feather." Read "Weeds and Seeds" in Dream of Shadows.
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"Gran hobbles from the condo in delirium, tugging along her flower-patterned rocking chair. When her burned, bony arms grow exhausted, she leaves the rocking chair by the railroad, kissing its mahogany handles goodbye." Read "The Ghostlands" in Shoreline of Infinity.
"Robots and goats don't typically need sleep, so they drove through the night while the goat snored at their feet." Read "The Ghost, the Goat, and the Robot" in Space and Time Magazine.
"A mother from Sacramento posted a photo of her child with the Bawgelyaw Hashtag. The child, who had drowned in a pool three months earlier, was resurrected in the family kitchen where the picture had been snapped..." Read "Bawgelyaw" in Scifi Lampoon.
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