Stories tagged “strange fiction”
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Rumination and Horror
He vomits, on all fours and stomach heaving. Long, ropey strings of fluid slide from his mouth to the ground, wet and glistening. It is the color of infected phlegm, the smell powerful, overwhelming. His belly clenches again, and he vomits more of the ...
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Murder of Being
His voice is grating and gravelly, a hint of squeak smelted into the forged metal of it. It gives his voice a distinctive timbre as he says into my ear, “I hope you bleed out, you little fucker.” And as the man in the leather mask pulls six...
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Listen to Ava: Supplicant
The cast-off tennis shoe lies discarded in the gravel by the side of the road, its white leather dry and cracked. Just beyond it stands a sign delineating, in large block letters, a speed zone of 30 MPH. Atop the sign a black bird, smaller than a crow,...