THE EXTERMINATOR • by Dave Macpherson
The young man in the old clothes was called to rhyme the rats to death. When there were too many rats in the basement to accept with a smile, folks in the neighborhood called him. He’d amble up in his...
View ArticleCAN YOU DIG IT? • by Brett J Cryer
Leech leant against the stone angel and struck a match on the broken wing. Shielding the flame from the driving rain, he lit his cigarette and sucked greedily on the filter. He exhaled a cloud of grey...
View ArticleJUNKYARD RATS • by Bill Ward
Lowell Strigg took careful aim with his shotgun and fired, filling the yard with a roar. Spooked by the blast, a flight of crows emerged from behind a rusty mountain of scrap and fled south, a lean...
View ArticleTHE PROBLEM OF PAIN • by Peter Tupper
Carlisle never believed the stories about Dr. Magda Boanak he’d heard around the campus. There was no way she had walked the length of the Trans-Siberian railroad as a teenager, and no way she had...
View ArticleTHE HUNGER OF RATS • by Moriah Geer-Hardwick
The night the rats ate my brother Yuri, I slept so soundly his screams didn’t wake me. They tore him apart an arm’s reach away, and I didn’t stir. I’d never slept like that before; without hunger,...
View ArticleME WANT TO PLAY • by Patrick Perkins
It was the only toy her daughter had wanted for her birthday, but Erica had been reluctant to buy it. Because Furbies gave her the creeps. Erica lifted the cardboard box to get a closer look at the...
View ArticleME WANT TO PLAY by Patrick Perkins
It was the only toy her daughter had wanted for her birthday, but Erica had been reluctant to buy it. Because Furbies gave her the creeps. Erica lifted the cardboard box to get a closer look at the...
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