Illustration by Lee Kuruganti © 2007
Links to the stories will be on the Picture Contest page
Short Flash
The Dying Room by Gwendolyn Joyce MIntz
Micro
WHERE DID JOHNNY GO? by Terry Weide
Fiction
Zombies of Sleep by E. Jim Shannon - At least the rain stopped, for now. I could barely see their faces from behind the beaded rain soaked window of our club van. I recognized some of them. I could even read their signs. 'Theta can save you,' one read, another read, 'Trust in Theta'.
Saving Grace by Morgan Hansen - Despite my ability to stop time, I am helpless to save her.
Horror
No Earthly Sound by D. Alexander Ward - That very morning, he had kissed her goodbye. He slung the strap of his bag over his shoulder and drained the last from his coffee mug. Opening the door, he felt the warmth of early spring.
Mother of Heresy by Kevin James Hurtack - The car sputtered, and then died completely. While Molly cursed it, every idiot light it possessed appeared on the dashboard. Grudgingly, she coaxed it onto the narrow shoulder, and flipped on the four-way flashers.
* Language warning.*
Kicking Against the Pricks by Steven L. Shrewsbury - Moonlight thrust itself into the small chapel as the long doors swung open. The heavy boots of big men who entered alerted those in the sanctuary of danger. In the dim, lunar radiance and the flicker of many candles, those cavorting upon the altar froze in their actions.
Fantasy
The Geometry Lesson by Bill Schweizer - The frail young boy sat quietly on the park bench then fidgeted nervously for no reason then sat quietly again, his chin balanced on his two slender fists as he looked, now languidly, across the park toward the trees and stone wall in the distance. Finally and reluctantly he sat upright.
Starlight Over Naples by Bill Schweizer - Every school kid knows Caesar chopped Gaul into three parts. Well, not exactly on personal knowledge, as the lawyers say, but on very reliable hearsay. Besides, it sounds very true to form for Caesar. Brutus might have gone for quarters but, for Caesar, three pieces was very much in character.
Ill Met in Turquoise Sunset by Glen Held - My four remaining guides grew increasingly nervous as the island appeared, gibbering away angrily in their language and casting dark glances my way. Although I knew they were tempted to mutiny, the immediate fear of my shooting them outweighed the unknown and kept the boat on course.
Non-Fiction
The Shower by P.S.Gifford - So I did it. I bloody well pulled it off. I catered my very first bridal shower.
Poetry
Bittersweet by Jamie Lin
Perfection by Margot Miller
Fear by Michael Hanson
Comics
Along the Chesapeake - by Adrienne Ray - A continuing comic to be added to each week! Fifteen
X:13 - by Kevin James Hurtack - A continuing Sci-fi-/horror comic to be added to at least once a month.
