Publication: Maudlin House

  • Lessons by Kevin Sterne

    My stepdad would throw knives at me. It was a like a reflexes thing, catching a fly with chopsticks. Character building, a boy’s first funeral. I learned to write my name with bandaged fingers. That’s how I became a lefty. Rick threw knives like a pitcher throwing long toss. It’s how I got these gnarly…

  • Blueberries by Chris Scott

    This story is way too short. It’s a bit of a John Marrs-type concept – people start getting texts from alternate-universe versions of loved ones. Put me on the preorder list for the novel already.

  • This Didn’t Happen

    A story of a possible crime, told in all a clever way: What would you do if you saw something worse? Maybe a car slamming into another and driving off? Or a brick being thrown through a window? Or a murder? You might have guessed that I saw one of those. I can neither confirm…

  • Unlikeable Female Protagonists

    It’s a stunner of a short story about the way society values women by their appearance.

  • Review: The Hands are Coming Too

    A review of a fictional film that sounds a bit like Evil Dead. It’s clever and funny: ‘The Hands are Coming Too.’ (2023) is the unneeded sequel to 80’s box office flop turned reluctant cult classic ‘The Feetening.’