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Special Service
PITTSBURGH, PA- DECEMBER 24TH, 2017 There were only three other passengers on the trolley when Orrin got on. It wasn’t one of the new cars that pulled up to him on the freezing Carson St. platform, but rather the old bullet-shaped type with a squashed nose, one single headlamp, and a domed roof capped by…
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The Chew
A man’s phobias trap him inside his own house. [appearing here courtesy of A Thin Slice of Anxiety] http://www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2022/04/fiction-chew.html?m=1
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All you Need is a Gun and a Girl
[appearing here courtesy of FILMINT (2020)] https://retreatsfromoblivion.com/2021/01/17/fiction-all-you-need-is-a-gun-and-a-girl-by-jim-towns/
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Severed Heads and Izakaya
[Appearing here thanks to Punk Noir magazine] https://punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/2022/05/29/severed-heads-and-izakaya-by-jim-towns/
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A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO CANNIBALISM
[Originally appearing in Creators Unite Magazine, May 2020] The term cannibal first originated with Spanish explorers to the West Indies who, on meeting local tribes who may (or may not) have practiced cannibalism, gave them the name Caribales, from the root word “caribal” or “savage”. The proper scientific term for cannibalism is anthropophagy. It’s generally accepted amongst anthropologists that our…
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Keijō
In feudal-era Japan, the feline guardian of a remote temple protects a samurai on the run. [shared here through the courtesy of Roi Fainéant Press] https://roifaineantarchive.wixsite.com/rf-arc-hive/post/keijō-by-jim-towns
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Mile Swim
A troop of Boy Scouts doing their mile swim in a secluded cove become the target of a hammerhead shark feeding frenzy [this story appears via Apocalypse Confidential] https://www.apocalypse-confidential.com/2022/08/19/mile-swim/
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In the Back Row (Burial Day Press)
In 1984, a lonely vampire goes to see what all the fuss about this new Ghostbusters movie is about. This story originally appeared in Burial Day Press in July, 2020: www.burialday.com/in-the-back-row-by-jim-towns/
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Years of Hope and Darkness
This piece originally appearing in RETRO HORROR (2020) published by Anubis Press.
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Wrathbone
A tale of horror at sea! Free to read courtesy of Dark Nowhere! https://www.darknowhere.com/fiction/wrathbone/
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