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The Circus Tent, by Kerry E. B. Black
Brad and Lynn set up the miniature circus tent in the center of the living room. A blue flag topped the red and yellow striped canvas cylinder. Scallops and dags dripped in cheer, adding to the...
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Shy Heahrug, by Paulo Brito
Image courtesy of © jorgophotography – Fotolia.com Shy Heahrug, the tallest clown midget on Earth, usually wanders around the Bridge City circus with a hand stuck in his pocket to cuddle his precious...
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Protect Ya Neck, by Edward Taylor
Went against the grain with this one. Unlike most stories in this collection, this does not take place at a Freak Show…but it is freaky and has enough southern flavor to make the cut. Excuse the pun....
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Meat for freaks, by Mathias Jansson
It’s a carnival of steam joy and screams when the circus shows its new exciting knife throwing machine downtown New Orleans Come closer, come closer! come and see, tonight all is free! come and visit...
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Funhouse, by Kelly Haas Shackelford
Image courtesy of Tshirt Factory @ Fotolia..com The entrance door slammed, echoing down the long hall of mirrors in Death’s Funhouse. Running away from the packed crowd, fear gripped me. Strobe lights...
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Step Right Up, by Michael A. Kechula
Image courtesy of © jorgophotography – Fotolia.com This story has been published in two previous fiction magazines. “Step right up ladies and gentlemen,” yelled the carnival barker, “and see Herbie,...
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Swishbone, by Stephen Kerr
Image courtesy of © lighthouse – Fotolia.com It has been well known for several years now that a man in a clown costume, flanked by two feral gibbering adolescents in dirty rags, with limbs twice the...
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Issue 13: Come One, Come All! To the Southern Fried Freak Show!
Image courtesy of © photocritical – Fotolia.com We’ve all been to that one local fair or carnival. You know the one? The one where certain carnies, clowns, or ride-operators look at you that special...
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Waterskins, by Denny E. Marshall
The spacecraft arrives back with a cargo hold full of “humans”. The tall gates of a vast acreage pen opens and they are released. Some stand by the gate stunned while others run into the lush...
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Shadow Whisperer at the Black Hole Hotel, by Kelda Crich
First published in Dark Horizons 2012 ~~~ Twist and turn the genetic skein, and produce a viewing machine. Here is the peculiar woman, born and bred for the uncanny. In the Black Hole Hotel cusping...
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Frost Bite, by Sasha Janel McBrayer
I remember the cold on my eyeballs. The smell of it. So clean. It didn’t take us long to file into the nearby cave for warmth. The wreckage was barely smoking in the snow. The rumpled plane was as...
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Issue #15: Elves & Spacerockets (Fantasy & Science Fiction)
Image courtesy of © Gerd Wolf – Fotolia.com I love science fiction and fantasy. I love tales about Martian princess ninjas who do as they damn well please, you puny humans. I love stories about...
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Lachesis, by David R. Schulze
“What do you regret about your life?” A tall thin man sat behind a paltry wooden desk, and stared with charcoal grey eyes at Mark. Everything about him was clean, pressed, precise. His diction was...
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Prepaid Funeral, by Aaron Runyon
The first time I met him I realized the kid possessed that dark casual formality most often attributed to serial killers and career politicians. Not likability exactly, but the authoritative calm of...
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No Reprieve, by Michael A. Kechula
When Ron staggered from a bar and steadied himself against a building, his cell phone rang. “Ron Higenlooper?” asked an ethereal-sounding voice. “Yeah. Who wants to know?” “Are the last four digits of...
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Finality, by Bryan Nickelberry
I look down at the assemblage of mortals running below me, and not for the first time I wonder at their reasons for such desperation. One group, led by a man claiming to hear the word of a God I do...
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Human Resources, by Luke Robert
“Hey you, look at me. I’m death. I know it’s odd; you must be thinking you’re insane. The god of death, a common housefly? You humans have this idea that I’m some sort of drama queen floating around in...
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Out of Their Cages, by Rhonda Eikamp
The sorceresses had wheeled the wooden cage into the village at dusk. Maheha could still sense its presence out there as she lay on her pallet at midnight. Burning, always burning in her peripheral...
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Springing the Trap, by Ray Dean
Waiting just inside the great doors of the Bowles home, Asphodel watched both the parlor and the door. One of the last remaining servants in the home, she was used to covering multiple...
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Death’s Goddaughter, by Deanna Baran
There is no barrier between Here and There, as long as you have eyes to see. I do. When the Angel of Death stands at their feet, I can bring them back with just a drop of magic cordial. When the...
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