The Neighborhood Watch
by Kurt Newton
© 2007 by Kurt Newton
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I live in a small town in the northeast corner of Connecticut. Population 7800 according to the 2005 census. I live with my wife, my two daughters, my wife’s mother, and, the newest member of our extended family, my granddaughter Neveah. [...]
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TRAPPED IN THE REFLECTION OF YOUR EYES
by Kurt Newton
© 2007 by Kurt Newton
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When they revived your mother twenty minutes after her heart had stopped, you could tell by the distant stare trapped in the gel of her eyes that twenty minutes was far too long to be absent from the here and now.
And [...]
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Today’s Headline, Wednesday, May 29, 2007
by Kurt Newton
© 2007 by Kurt Newton
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TEXAS MOTHER HANGS HERSELF, 3 CHILDREN
Wow, now there’s an eye-grabbing headline. Might as well say CRAZY BITCH DECIDES TO OFF SELF, TAKES CHILDREN WITH HER. You know, just in case it gets kind of lonely on the other side. [...]
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The Four Horsemen of the Parking Lot
by Kurt Newton
© 2007 by Kurt Newton
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The four young men standing in the parking lot didn’t look cold. In fact, none of the four wore winter coats even though it was eleven o’clock at night and below freezing outside.
The four stood in a clot in [...]
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Episode #1: Last Flight Out to the Wormhole in my Mind
by Kurt Newton
They cut me open.
It’s okay, I let them.
Actually, they cut me open, played with my intestine a bit, pushed it back where it belonged, installed a little synthetic mesh, and sewed everything back up tight.
I had a hernia. I don’t know how [...]
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 •
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As a new installment to the Delirium Insider, Mark Justice, of Pod Of Horror fame, will be doing audio readings of past, present and future stories published by Delirium Books.
The first in the series is “The House Spider” by Kurt Newton.
To hear the reading, please click the button below:
The House Spider
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Thursday, November 23rd, 2006 •
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GOBBLE, GOBBLE, OXEN FREE
by Kurt Newton
© 2003 by Kurt Newton. All Rights Reserved.
Walter huddled his thin, eleven-year-old body against the morning cold. He’d spent the night in an abandoned warehouse wrapped in mothball-smelling dinner jackets and old lady dresses he’d stolen from a Salvation Army dumpster. He wished the bag he’d grabbed [...]
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THE FEAST
by Kurt Newton
© 2006 by Kurt Newton.
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It walked along a deserted beach. A beach once sculpted by soft ocean waves, dotted with tall coconut palms, hotel cabanas, open-air bars…and people. But now, in both directions, the beach was littered with debris, a hundred-meter-wide deposit of thick mud, splintered trees and shattered lumber.
And [...]
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For those of you wanting to get a copy of Kurt Newton's The Wishnik, 12 copies have been posted on E-bay for sale:
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