short horror fiction
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How do you write what people actually want to read? View all responses Flat as a prepubescent boy, is what my mom said. Actually what she said is “flat as Daniel”, but it meant the same thing. I could palm the entirety of my stupid teeny titty in one hand, dwarfed by a puffy pink…
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Hemidactylum verdigris was first identified as an isolated hibernating colony uprooted by early spring construction in the northern Appalachian mountains. The bright blue bellies and tails of the salamanders prompted the workers to assume they had hit a shallow copper vein until the copper began to drop tails and sluggishly scatter around the scoop of…
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The horns sounded on the track, and on the back stretch Aggie pulled the syringe out of Sunny Red’s vein. He capped the needle and leaned against the stall to watch the bay filly in the tense seconds as the cocktail took hold. Sunny’s haunches twitched, her jaw fell open and long strings of drool…
