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Welcome to Crescent Manor. Where the rent is cheap and your neighbours are dead to the world.—The Landlord Mark and Nathan Connor are twins, but in name only. There is little to connect them, save their current residence in Crescent Manor, an old building situated in the centre of a mid-sized city. They are unaware the tenants of . . .
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What’s it like to be a zombie? When a small town bank is surrounded and attacked by the zombie horde, not everyone makes it out alive. The story of the survivors, human and zombie alike, unfolds one chapter at a time. . . .
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Death doesn’t have to feel like the end of the world. Zombie’s lives as they’ve known them are over, yet somehow they’re still standing. In the wake of all-consuming tragedy, they stagger forward, hands reaching out for the same people who once gave their lives hope and meaning. They need them. They’re hungry. Unable to use their own brains, . . .
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The stories here are short (some very short) and are mostly sf – that is, speculative fiction: fantasies, myths, science fiction, slipstream . . . all the flavors of fabulation except, I hope, for the mundane. Many were written with the audience of the Usenet newsgroup talk.bizarre in mind, back when text was the thing. —APS . . .
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The experience of smell is the closest thing we have to intimate human contact without actually having it. A woman’s perfume. a whiff of cigarette smoke, a little bit of diesel fume, and some spearmint gum might come close to someone’s first kiss, for example. Of course, it’s impossible to create a first kiss without the human element, but for . . .
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The Data Yodeler is a twisting tale of five mid-career uber-geeks exploring the potential of a voyeuristic existence, and making that dream into a reality. It is a story about the meaning and purpose of art, a story about the value identity, and a story of coming to terms with an uncontrollable maelstrom of information. “Meet Russ.” “Russ . . .
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A frantic scramble to kill their mother drives four grownup siblings crazy. A dysfunctional family that puts yours to shame. Let your mom read it if she complains that you don’t treat her right. . . .
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“The Arab Bank” is a 12-part short fiction serial set in Cannes, which is running during the Cannes Film Festival [May 13-24]. It utilizes Google Maps, Street View, and delivery via web, Facebook, email, RSS, and Twitter. . . .
The Shadowstories—a group of witless heroes who patrol the narrative crimes and fringes of the tale-built Storyverse lead by the intrepid Lord Chuckles and Grebok, Son of Drogmar, Keeper of the Seven Keys of Ventoozlar— come upon their most insidious foe yet: The Infi-Net! An ever-growing, mind-numbing congregation of cat videos, pornography, and teenage pop stars. The idiots—er, heroes—are . . .
Having crash-landed on the most boring planet in the universe, a disgruntled spaceman struggles to survive. As he attempts to adjust to his new environment, he recalls moments from his past and the events that led to his current predicament. . . .
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Joel was just a regular ol’ park ranger, minding his own business when Yukihiro, a recently retired assassin for a Tokyo yakuza family, burst through a window and into his life. Now, he’s trapped quite figuratively in a web of deceit and danger that goes beyond the usual ‘hilarious misunderstanding’ and driven straight to ‘running away for dear life’. . . .
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Joe works the night shift at a government train corporation in New York. Jason monitors surveillance cameras in the San Francisco Bay Area for the Department of Homeland Security. The thing connecting them? The subject of Joe’s adoration and Jason’s surveillance: a college student whose casual purchase of a book from craigslist becomes the catalyst for an insane adventure across . . .
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Eddie, an ordinary guy, with an ordinary life in an ordinary world decides one day he is tired of the ordinary life. He makes a brash decision to try serial killing on for size. Eddie fails miserably and in the process hooks up with a group of new friends whose lives are less than ordinary are happy to take the . . .
“Flesh Phantoms” is a collection of short stories written by one author. Some of them are very short, more like story fragments or the author’s thoughts, while others are a more conventional length. They’re all interesting, sometimes bordering on brilliant. The tone varies between whimsical and sardonic, but there’s almost always a touch of wry wit lurking in the background, [more . . .]
Adrian’s Undead Diary ought to be up there with Romero’s films and Kirkman’s comic as a classic of zombie narrative. Although there isn’t much we haven’t seen before, the execution is solid and the result of the frequent posts is a story that is simply thrilling. The style of writing lends itself to the story’s context in such a way [more . . .]