Jason sniffed at the fall air, moldering mushrooms, caramel apples, and cinnamon in everything. The corn maze looked less fun and more...

Several people crouched around the hole in the earth, turning their heads this way and that. "Well it's certainly unusual," Nancy said. A...

A hundred curfews were broken on the night of September 30th, 1963. As the sun was setting, the class of '64 took matters into their own...

Summer scorched the tiny town of Hacksaw. The sun seemed frozen at its peak, roasting anyone and everything under its hateful eye. The...

It's not normal for us to feel sorry for our hosts. But here I am, mourning poor Tony Block. I've learned that the word "host" applies to...

Something was getting the coyotes. Normally, Jeb would be happy to find a dead coyote. Not happy, but relieved. It was given you'd lose...

Rory said it must have been a bear. Mark said it didn't matter, that we were screwed no matter what it was. I had a hard time disagreeing...

“This stuff will clean literally anything,” Roger told his prospective new customers. The couple eyed him warily from their couch. Dinner...

The party was in full swing. The stereo was turned up as loud as it would go. The whole cabin smelled like sweat and Aquanet. Janice sat...

"This is stupid," Luis said, kicking the tires of his beat up truck. He had driven them out to the boonies at Martin's (fairly rude)...

Clark sighed in defeat. He pushed his glasses onto the top of his head and pinched the bridge of his nose. He didn’t know what was gazing...

Campus was quiet, Fall Break in full swing. The yards of the frat houses lousy with red cups were still. The winding road that branched...

It's said that Old Man Jodie killed The Beast in the summer of '57. He was already an old man then and so to my teenage eyes some years...

Tracy wove her car through the other vehicles on the road. She wouldn't, couldn't, be late. Of course her wife was sick and their son...

A shaking finger set the metronome in motion. It lazily slung itself from side to side. "I think this will go better," Dr. Wilkes said to...

The first sighting occurred just after sundown. Betty Alvarez, 78, was walking with her caretaker, Joseph Cross, 24, when Betty stopped,...

Us Shepherds gathered just before dawn. Five of us total, all anonymous. Our handler, who was antsy to get back into the SUV and leave us...

(Originally published in Indecent Magazine Aug 2022) It was one of the endless days of summer. The humid air and the cicadas’ song made...