Tag: Fiction
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Wayne Robbins and the fifth Apocalypse
1 The first one scared him so badly he had to change his pants before gathering up his family and making for his brother’s boat. If they could get deep into lake Michigan, was the thinking, they could perhaps survive the blast. Though even if they got that far, he assumed they would be watching…
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Needful Things, Shameful Things
[Spoiler-free section] As a Constant Reader, my journey through Stephen King’s bibliography has been as meandering as anyone else’s. Early stuff to late stuff, coke stuff to sober stuff, the beautiful and the rotten. But in my reading of Needful Things, I realized about halfway through that I had never gotten around to his cynical stuff. A…
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Junji’s Ax (Short Story)
Junji’s Ax by Nicholas DeNardi A small bed, rocking and warm, listening to an omniscient and comforting womanly voice. A blanket of security, and a sound that defines existence. “Many are good,” she said, “many are bad. And some, just like us, are merely lost.” The voice began to echo and a light formed at…
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Gimme (Short Story)
Gimme by Nicholas DeNardi Gimme, Arizona. The State-Unrecognized village sanctuary embedded deep within the Chiricahua Mountains. “Astronomer’s Gate,” as it was called by those settled in the nearest town of San Simon (Population: 165), 27 miles to the east. Occupied by a handful of retired engineers, physicists, and yes, astronomers, Gimme had only one rule:…
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