By Ingela Richardson The author lives with her daughter at the seaside in a rambling, crumbling house full of dogs, cats, an ancient grandmother and an equally ancient retainer who all speak foreign languages. Adult Themes Trust The young girl was sleeping, her face and hair so pale under the luminous lights that the teacher held her [...]

By Steven G. Farrell celtic-badgerontheborder.com An homage to the Bowery Boys movies of the 1930s!  This is a wild, humorous and slightly chilling yarn that takes us through the alleys of New York’s Bowery as a group of young hooligans known as the Bowery Irish Clowns tries to stop a killer who seems a lot [...]

By Pam Farley Pamela Farley is an Australian author of dark fiction. She is a member of the Australian Horror Writer’s Association and has had more than a dozen of her short stories published in magazines in Australia and the UK. Pam lives in rural South Australia with family and assorted animals. She works in [...]

By Mike Sauve Adult Reading – Mature Content A graduate of Ryerson Journalism, Mike Sauve has written for The National Post, The Toronto International Film Festival Group, Exclaim Magazine and other publications.  His fiction has appeared in the humor journal Feathertale. His National Post features reveal a sardonic prose style that is unique and inviting. [...]

National Public Radio’s web site is hosting a three-minute fiction contest. NPR book critic Alan Cheuse will choose a winning story to be read on-air and the best entries get posted on the site. The rules are simple. You just write something that can be read in under three minutes. My camera is a digital [...]

By Heidi Logothetti Heidi Logothetti was born in Northern California and attended Santa Clara University. She currently lives in Alexandria, Virginia, and works in Washington, DC. She is an omnivorous reader, enjoys hiking, and loves old movies and anime. Today’s weird little tale concerns a woman and her television.  What’s the TV saying? Listen. It [...]