Nessie had been old when Margaret was young, and Margaret felt her age in every joint as she sat by the loch, watching the sun set in a blaze of red and orange. She dipped her toes in the cold water, waited, and tried not to think about dying. She […]
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The drive-in screen flickered out. Alice’s screams replaced the soundtrack as feral orange eyes glittered at the edge of the headlights. Joe’s brains coated the skipping record. The detective shuddered, and Elvis crooned, "You ain’t no friend of mine" over and over again. "Tom’s mine!" Anne left Sally’s body in […]
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Ronnie scowled at her blueberry pancakes. "I don’t see why Jim can’t come over." Her parents exchanged a look. Her dad arched an eyebrow, and her mom shook her head. Ronnie sighed, knowing the answer, even before Dad turned to her. "It’s family day, Ronnie," he said. "It’s a day […]
Martian Adventures: Family Day Part 2
Mattie wrapped her arms around Big Bear and marched down the road. She refused to look back. There was nothing for her back home. Her mom and dad didn’t love her, not really. If they loved her, they wouldn’t have yelled at her. And they’d let her have ice cream […]
Big Bear
The grapefruit spoon bared its teeth at the lesser spoons, and they bowed before it. It led them to bloody victory over the butter knives. Corpses from the cutlery war were scattered around the kitchen, but the humans didn’t notice the carnage amidst their other dirty dishes. The sugar and […]
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Jim scowled at his book reader. He hated Sundays. Ronnie’s dad had declared Sundays "Family Days" and so Ronnie was trapped with her mom and dad doing family crap. Ronnie said it wasn’t too bad, and that she’d try to get her dad to let him come over sometime. Jim’s […]
Martian Adventures: Family Day
I’m ready to be the first man to make love to an Atareen. Xteela’s so exotic, with her blue skin and gold eyes. I begin unwinding the layers of her alien clothing. She hooks her fingernails into her smooth skin and starts pulling it off, revealing green flesh. […]
First Time
Faces formed in the sand as the storm swirled around them. They screamed words in tongues long dead, consuming his sanity, then his flesh. The lemon grew legs and eyestalks, and climbed up her arm. It whispered tart and sour lies in her ear till she cut it open to […]
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Ronnie leaned out over the fish tank. She’d brought Jim up onto the catwalks over the aquariums. Mom would flip if she saw them up here, but Ronnie liked looking down at the water. The algae tanks were okay, but the fish were the best. Their silver scales flickered as […]
Martian Adventures: The Fish Tanks
The sand trembled beneath Missy’s feet, and a purple worm the size of an elephant lunged out of the earth. Missy laid a long-fingered hand on its dry skin. "Welcome," she said. It writhed under her touch. She could feel its pain as she enslaved its mind. "Join the others […]