“Brain Scrub” by Elizabeth Kaye Cook
Her brain outside of her head had a cuteness, a lumpen-ness, a rubber-duckie dumbness. The bathroom lights shone on its surface. Squeaky clean.
Read moreHer brain outside of her head had a cuteness, a lumpen-ness, a rubber-duckie dumbness. The bathroom lights shone on its surface. Squeaky clean.
Read more“The only real beginning and end is birth and death. All of the other alphas and omegas that you think you have suffered are an illusion. What remains is the horrific in-between. Amen.”
Read moreIt looked like a wedding cake from Hell. Three stories tall, sprouting balconies and columns and pinnacles like mushrooms on a rotting stump.
Read more“Do you love me?”
My body tenses at the question, at his sudden wakefulness. He’s never asked that before, never in fifteen years, not even when he took my skin from me.
Read more“Did you hear me?” Dr. Bergman leaned forward, put his long, crooked finger on her knee and tapped it three
Read moreI was the first puppet the Marionette Master had ever made – the most imperfect…
Read more“It’s important, when breaking a man, to know the fulcrum at his core, and the lever that moves him.”
Read moreAvailable in original Ukrainian: “Подарунок” Дар’я Беззадіна Sashka pressed her numb feet to the warm side of the stove and
Read moreAvailable in English: The Gift by Daria Bezzadina Сашка притулила потерплі від незручного сидіння ноги до теплого боку груби й
Read moreThese condensed novels from D. Harlan Wilson’s recent relesase Outré and the upcoming Usurper are brought to you by Hawgstruffel
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