What could be better than hunting Sasquatch on Christmas Eve. Roy could think of few things. The year had been his treasure for the taking. Maybe it was because the earth’s axis had shifted and something inside Roy had shifted too. He was invincible. First the knocking on trees and… Continue Reading
The power went out. Sandy could handle a small power outage, but not tonight. Ever since the “Shifting” had been happening she had been seeing things, horrific things, that she never would have even dreamed in her wildest nightmares. The one small consolation is that since the Shifting, she isn’t… Continue Reading
Richard knew the zipper in his flesh couldn’t have been there long. It ran down the middle of his chest, from just beneath his collar bone down to just above his navel. He couldn’t figure out what it meant. He lay on his back on what seemed to be the… Continue Reading
Divorce. Lockdown. Loneliness. As long as he had lived alone, David had no real friends. Except that now, a largish spider was inhabiting his shower. It hung out in an upper corner, above and to the right of the shower head. At first, he was leery of it. Margaret, when… Continue Reading
Here are the prompts for the 2021 Weird Mask 500! Two genres: Horror Bizarro Secret word: Square Google Trending Topic: Climate Change / Earth’s Axis Shifting So there you go! Write a 500 word story containing those elements and send it to me at weirdmaskzine at gmail dot com… Continue Reading
The baying was silenced as soon as the airlock slid into place. Tara had brought the beagle puppy with her — all four pounds ten ounces of it. The cute squirming puppy was found on the Ridgemount outpost. Tara hadn’t even been looking for strays. She was only on the… Continue Reading
Looking forward to a week of rest and relaxation after a hectic two month long assignment that saw Harrison travelling across the island in search of evidence that would definitely stand up in court and put away the most notorious bandit in the country, his excitement was actually stifling. Power… Continue Reading
I was in my birthday suit and I was stimulated. It wasn’t the sight of the nude corpse in front of me. It wasn’t that I was turned on by the idea that I was about to lay with it. It wasn’t even the thrill of stealing the body from… Continue Reading
Here it is. The winner of the 2021 WM1K! Before I announce the winner, I want to say thank you to everyone who submitted and to all of you that are still writing, keep up the good work and send your story in when you can! This years WM1K seemed… Continue Reading
Here you go folks! We have the prompts for this years WM1K race! The two genres are: CRIME HARD or SOFT SCI-FI The secret word is: BIRTHDAY And finally the Google Trending Topic is: STIMULUS So write a 1,000 word crime story with either hard or soft science fiction… Continue Reading
