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The Jumper [Short Fiction]

by Dominic Blewett: Clouds swarm over there like boiling milk and the fog rolls in. It drifts slowly slowly towards me in the unfolding minutes as I have drifted to this place over the course of these last few months. [...]

Short Fiction

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 [...]

Arts and Literature, Friday Frights, Short Fiction and Poetry

Letters of Grisham Lane

by Adam Jones: PREFACE  These letters were confiscated as evidence in a national murder investigation that began in Chicago in 19XX. News reports saw very little coverage of these incidents because they were classified as highly confidential. Since then, pieces of [...]

Arts and Literature, Short Fiction and Poetry

Character Driven

by Gerardo Delgadillo: Eric Lom hated writing. That’s a bad thing if you write for a living. He ran a hand through his hair, focusing on the computer, hovering the mouse over the “Documents” folder. He clicked it and drummed the [...]

Arts and Literature, Short Fiction and Poetry

The Post Modern Prometheus

by Phillip Donnelly: First Officer’s Log Oil Platform ARCTIC 5 November 04 Crew increasingly restless. Fight broke out at Dusk +1 between Flynn and Singh. Had to use stun guns used to incapacitate them. Were threatening each other with Swiss army [...]

Arts and Literature, Short Fiction and Poetry

Man Cave

by Rick McQuiston: Scotty took a step back and gazed at his creation. It was his own personal space, off- limits to everyone, including his wife Janine- especially his wife. He had the only key, the only means of entry. He would [...]

Arts and Literature, Short Fiction and Poetry

Malice

by J.L. Petty: “Do I sound familiar? Do you recognize my voice?” The masked woman pressed the gun hard up against my cheek. She was wearing a black turtle neck and her face was covered with a black hanker chief. [...]

Arts and Literature, Short Fiction and Poetry

Who is Like God?

by B.E. Scully: At first he hadn’t noticed the source of the bright crimson drops splattering the snow and then seeping outward through the first slush of spring. He had been too surprised to find this shock of life here [...]

Arts and Literature, Short Fiction and Poetry

DarkMedia is Now Accepting Original Fiction Submissions

Attention authors and aspiring authors! DarkMedia is now accepting short stories and poetry for publication on DarkMedia.com.  As a rapidly growing resource for all things Dark, we would like to extend our involvement in the literary community by supporting and [...]

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