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Castle Frankenstein

Reader’s Choice selection from DMC’s flash fiction group, Friday Frights. by Lisa McCourt Hollar: High above Monstropolis, on the mountainside, Is where our tale begins tonight, at Castle Frankenstein. The moon silhouettes the castle, as it looms above the town And [...]

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Head in the Clouds

Reader’s Choice selection from DMC’s flash fiction group, Friday Frights. by Lisa Lane: Paul and Frank—the Paul and Son on the logo that stretched across both sides of their company moving van—listened to classic rock on the radio while the van inched its [...]

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Hell’s Nails [Classic Adaptation]

Reader’s Choice selection from DMC’s flash fiction group, Friday Frights. by Jeffrey Hollar: I don’t care what them court-ordered psychiatric evaluations wanna say, I ain’t crazy man. If I was as bug-shit loony as these bastards think I am, do ya [...]

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Good Fences Make Good Neighbors [City Blackout]

Reader’s Choice selection from DMC’s flash fiction group, Friday Frights. by Rob Smales: The lights went out without warning. Shane froze, staring upward through the darkness at the now invisible bank of fluorescents hanging from the ceiling. Two seconds. Six. Ten. [...]

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Shop Till You Drop [Locked Up In The Dark]

Reader’s Choice selection from DMC’s flash fiction group, Friday Frights. by Jeffrey Hollar: When you don’t have much else to do but sit and wait for the end to come, a dark room is really a pretty good place to do [...]

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All the Little Children [Classic Adaptation]

Reader’s Choice selection from DMC’s flash fiction group, Friday Frights. by Rob Smales: The screams went on for a long time. They had woken him, and it seemed the shrieks were well underway by the time they yanked him from sleep. [...]

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Tribe [Down in a Dark Alley]

Reader’s Choice selection from DMC’s flash fiction group, Friday Frights. by Rob Smales: Eddie pulled hard against the weight of the full bag, his own body a counter balance, pivoting on the balls of his feet like some half-assed Olympian doing [...]

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Spelunking [Eaten Alive in the Dark]

Reader’s Choice selection from DMC’s flash fiction group, Friday Frights. by Lisa McCourt Hollar: The lights had burned out but Samuel didn’t mind. He’d seen the creatures that dwelled down here and he didn’t care to see them coming. Thomas was [...]

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Survival’s Cost

Reader’s Choice selection from DMC’s flash fiction group, Friday Frights. by Jeffrey Hollar: It’s too late to apologize. I feel no remorse for what I have done, though, so the sentiment would be specious. I am a man of vision, of [...]

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