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POWER – 4 – Giants Among Men 2
Fomorn and Mog drove the car that the woman had been driving, and their three new friends were in the back seat. They sat like docile statues, never blinking, never moving. Mog drove the car and Fomorn finished programming the address from the license of the man in the backseat into the GPS of the…
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POWER – 3 – Giants Among Men
Fomorn was born a very long time ago, in the early days of humanity, in the vicinity of modern day Ethiopia. His mother was a hard woman who fled the brutality of her existence to lead a solitary life. She had lived in a tribe of others like herself and though everyone was mostly cooperative,…
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POWER – 2 – Poisonous Love 2
I was up before they were. Both men were still unconscious on the ground when I finally stood up. The inexplicable red light had subsided and I could look more easily in their direction. They seemed to be asleep there, not hurt at all, but peaceful. I walked over to them cautiously and I could…
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POWER – 1 – Poisonous Love
I really enjoy a sweet biscuit, the Boberry Biscuit from the Bojangles just up the street from the building where I tutor at the community college in uptown Charlotte. It’s that too much butter biscuit with sugar in the mix, and blueberries (or something that tastes like blueberries), with that very sweet, but thin white…
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The Lightning God Issue 2. The Devil in the Town of Borges continued
Leo Franklin became a household name when he represented the US at two Olympic Games, once as a middle heavyweight, and then as a heavyweight. Franklin retired in his mid thirties and he devoted a considerable amount of his time to improving impoverished communities. He started first in the small NC town where he was…
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Halloween Special Issue 3, Vol. III – October 26, 2017
Tales from the Dark Parallel * * * How do we measure time in a dream? Is it a real time exchange? For every second of sleep in the real world, one second passes in the dreamscape? That is likely a subjective thing and depends largely on the events in the dream. You must compare…
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The Lightning God Issue 1. The Devil in the Town of Borges
Anabel stood in the doorway of her son’s bedroom. She had rosary beads in her hand and she felt each one with her fingers one at a time as she prayed in a quickfire whisper. Her eyes were closed tight. She knew that she should have her eyes open. Her son needed her then more…
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Halloween Special Issue 2, Vol. III – October 23, 2017
Tales from the Dark Parallel * * * I walked for a long time and eventually the bleak suburban street wasn’t suburban anymore. I was in a city, a grimy New York City from a past that wouldn’t have been kind to me because of the color of my skin. It could have been the…
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Mirror (One-Shot)
One day, Pam woke up and looked at herself in the mirror. She was surprised at what she saw staring back. Pam’s every day had been consumed by a desire to lose weight. She was a mother of two and her size was understandable, but Pam wanted more for herself. She would appreciate that strangers…
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Halloween Special Issue 1, Vol. III – October 15, 2017
Tales from the Dark Parallel * * * Let’s imagine that all human fears exist in a place between consciousness and nightmares. And if it is a place, what would it be like to exist there? I’ve been reading a lot and I was writing even more and when I emerged from my home, I…