Horror

The Sound of Children Screaming by Rachael K. Jones     THE GUN   You know the one about the Gun. The Gun goes where it wants to. On Thursday morning just after recess, the Gun will walk through the front doors of Thurman Elementary, and it won’t sign in at the front office or […]

(Download the audio version of this story here — read by David Binks.  Story illustration by Ronnie Tucker.) Cordigan flicked his cigarette into the water. The river that bisected the city wa…

(Story illustration by Galen Dara.) I don’t expect you to believe this story.  I don’t want to believe this story.  I wish that I didn’t. All of this  happened earlier tonight — just another …

“Those diagrams are terribly optimistic,” the woman in the seat beside me said, eyeing the brochure as our plane climbed away from Manila. She spoke masterful English, clipped with a Filipino accent. “Let’s hope we never have to test that theory.”

Nita: So you thought I made you sign a release as, what, foreplay? [Laughter.] Voice: I was, like, four tequilas deep by the time you walked in and probably at five when you waved that paper in my face. I would’ve signed my soul away to . . . uh, I didn’t actually sign my soul over, did I?

Something in the lab smelled like nectarine jam. I looked up from the industrial autoclave, frowning...

She got into the elevator with him, the young woman from down the hall, the one he’d last seen at th...

I want to be broken, to be shattered, then reshaped into something new. Something with bulletproof s...

Jin left the last of his life’s concubines sobbing in shallow water. It was sad. He had loved the sw...