Horror D'oeuvres

Books
by Blu Gilliand

© 2007 by Blu Gilliand
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The sign over the door said simply: BOOKS.
The store appeared to have been there forever. The walls were white, the door green, and the paint on both was fractured in a thousand tiny lines. Thick cobwebs gathered in the corners of the front window, wrapping the small […]

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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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The Next Hit Album
by Ray Wallace
© 2007 by Ray Wallace
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Johnny stood at the top of the stairs looking down into the basement. As always, it was dark there. Because that’s the way the thing that lived down there liked it.
He didn’t want to descend those stairs but he had to. It was […]

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Swimming Lessons
by Tim Waggoner
© 2007 by Tim Waggoner
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The humidity was so thick, you could take a bite out of the air and chew. Scott sat on the hard plastic bleachers in the front row, close to the rec center’s pool, trying to ignore the dull ache in his lower back and wishing […]

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The Drop
by Jeff Strand
 
© 2007 by Jeff Strand
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Whoops. Parachute didn’t open. That’s not good.
Okay, no need to panic. There’s a backup chute somewhere. Is it this thing? No. This one? Uh-uh. Wish I’d paid more attention during the training. Damn cleavage.
Ground sure looks far away. Hope I hit a spongy part.
Guess I’m going […]

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Four Ways To Say I Love You
by Ken Goldman
© 2007 by Ken Goldman
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“I want to marry you,” he insisted. He did not go down on one knee. That was for amateurs. Instead he added a simple “I love you.”
She smiled. “Do you? Prove it.”
He pulled a small pocket knife from his jeans […]

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Thief
by Mark Justice
© 2007 by Mark Justice
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“I need you,” he whispered, his lips so close to her throat, his breath as hot as a bonfire.
He didn’t need to whisper, yet it made his words more intense, more romantic. His heat had spread to her. It was a tingling balm that coursed from her […]

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The Gift
by Chris Hansen
© 2007 by Chris Hansen
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Betty and Marty Trimble stood outside the bedroom of their eight-year-old son, Nicholas.
“Today went well, didn’t it?” Betty whispered.
Marty nodded. The day couldn’t have gone better and they both knew it, though Marty understood the need for the question, for reassurance.
“He seemed so happy.”
Marty remembered […]

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The Stoma Laughs Last
by Dustin LaValley

© 2006 by Dustin LaValley
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The hoarse-gagging of my roommate choking on his own breath wakes me. I glance at the wall clock: 3:13 AM.
Motherfucker! I scream in my head.
Stupid bastard filled his lungs with poison for over forty years, no doubt killing his family along with each […]

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The Shortstop
by Michael McBride
© 2006 by Michael McBride
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Joey had never fit in back in Denver. This move was his big chance to start all over again and maybe have some real friends. He’d been so lonely.
“You can do it, Joey!” Frank shouted.
“I can…almost…reach it,” Joey said, his arm all the way into the […]

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