The Reveal (a fragment)
The Reveal (a fragment) by H. A. Kirsch Copyright 2013 --- This is a fragment, possibly an early draft of a chapter from a novel I'm working on. Most likely, the finished product won't be very much like this. A lot of stuff has happened before this...
The Blood Which Binds
In a mucky inlet of the life-giving Erbad river, the sun beating on his sore-riddled scales, Nawaz the Poet limped from the bank. This had been his every morning for the two years since his affliction began. Hakka's strong young hands gingerly...
Guro Challenge #25: Organs
Blaggut supposed Slipp was right, he was an idiot; a clever beast would have asked what the word "quarantine" actually meant before going to find out for himself. Of course he'd been caught and thrown out, amid many curses from the healers (he didn't...
Memo: August 26, 1987 (Art Bell Gets His Money's Worth, Part II)
**August 26, 1987** MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Intelligence THROUGH: Deputy Director of Science and Technology Deputy Director of Operations SUBJECT: Degory Chandler Diary 1. I...
Gesshru Chapter 3
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Chapter 3 My name is Freya Savitri, and I have just awoken from a dreamless sleep. Sleep in english. Dormir in Spanish. Yuzu in Azerbaijani. Neend in Hindi. Spat in Russian. Somnum in Latin. Sen in Polish. Usingizi in Swahili....
Radioactive Toy (or The Post-Apocalypse Pygmalion) Part 3
The day's travel was much as before. Travelling in the cooler air then as the day drew to midday, it became unfeasibly hot. There was no shelter but that of a crevice where the road had buckled so much it resembled a cliff. Under its brief shade, he...
Hypnovember '23: Executive Dysfunction
Executive Dysfunction God, I'm so lazy. The mantra echoes over and over, bouncing off the inside of my skull in a constant drone. It's background noise, like traffic, or the birds. Not that I can hear either of those things at the...
Light Bane: Chapter 20
body horror monsters aside, maybe living in that world wasn't that bad. if only he knew what happened to him before he ended up there.
My Boyfriend is a Werewolf: Chapter 10
Nate was busy on his phone with no interest with todd's body horror crisis. "nate? nate!? i'm not joking!" he shouted for his attention. nate looked back at him apathetically.