A woman is trapped between her boss and her boyfriend after stealing $40,000, but at least she isn’t murdered in the shower. This is an interesting riff on “Psycho”, following Marion, Norman…
Tag: short story
“Mine Seven” by Elena Gomel
The warming climate has awakened a vengeful spirit from an abandoned mine on Svalbard, and a woman with Siberian heritage dredges up an ancient memory to try to face it. This story…
“It Doesn’t Feel Right” by Michael Marshall Smith
The typical misbehavior of young children ratchets up to an alarming level. This starts as a fairly anodyne, “life among the savages” story of trying to get a young child ready for…
“Come Closer” by Gemma Files
A woman notices that a strange, decrepit house is slowly moving toward her home, leaving destruction in its wake. This is an odd, dream-like story (with actual dreams about strange houses figuring…
“Cleaver, Meat, and Block” by Maria Haskins
In the aftermath of a zombie-like plague, a girl must come to terms with the the things that she has seen and experienced, and with what other people did. When I started…
“Lords of the Matinee” by Stephen Graham Jones
While sharing the audio assist device with his father-in-law at a movie, a man discovers that he can tap into his father-in-law’s memories and uncovers a terrible secret. So much of the…
“Motel Architecture” by J. G. Ballard
A man who lives alone, surrounded by television screens, is troubled by an intruder. The story itself wasn’t terribly surprising, but the premise felt weirdly prescient – replace the television screens with…
“A Dead Cert” by Seán Ó Faoláin
While visiting Dublin from her home in Cork, a woman meets with an old male friend and their flirting turns into a sort of challenging emotional combat. This is a quietly dark…
“A Hotel in Germany” by Catriona Ward
A movie star and her assistant have a strange, dark relationship. This is an odd and disorienting story. There is some back story implied, of near-immortal, vampire-like creatures who are made less…
“Exhalation #10” by A.C. Wise
A man blessed and cursed with acute hearing helps his police detective friend hunt for a killer who has left behind gruesome recordings of his crimes, which have begun to seep into…