New Story: Poison
“Its founders had intended to honor Henry Polson. But the courthouse clerk had quarreled with his wife that morning, and his foul mood conspired with the document’s uncertain orthography to […]
Category Archives: fiction
New Story: Nor Any Drop To Drink
“The thing is, I don’t think I would have tried to pick a fight with Viva. Or any of our other Marine Techs, for that matter. It wasn’t that they […]
New Story: Raiders of the Lost Triwall
“Shelly can think of more embarrassing ways to die, and she’s had more than enough time to enumerate them. But none that feel so ironic, nor as damning to her […]
New Story: Aisle 28, Christmas Eve
“The thought comes to him seemingly out of nowhere: this is nothing like Fallujah. But the fact that he has even evoked the comparison frightens him. The fog of […]
New Story: To Say Nothing of the Dog
“Tom, our usual multibeam tech, had broken a leg the week before deployment, falling off a ladder while cleaning his gutters, and the lead Marine Tech landed in quarantine when her little fever turned out to be a lingering case of malaria from that stint in the Gambia. The fact that our new chief scientist conversed with imaginary friends did nothing to settle anyone’s nerves. And all that was before we found out about the dog….” – To Say Nothing of the Dog
New Story: The Duchess
“No one was willing to say for sure whether Billy Eriksen’s body was in the boat when they set it afire that night. I suppose it’s better that way…
New Story: The Garage
“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” -Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of Four
