Absorbed by Excrement
by Michael Errol Swaim
When the boundary between life and art collapses, is anyone safe?.
Out now on Godless.com and in paperback on Amazon!!!
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The Curse of Being Beautiful
by Elsbeth Eden
Gods guard beauty, and damn any who dare to possess it.
THE CARVING IS BEAUTIFUL. Why can’t I carve? The details are perfect, crisp as the day they were chipped from the granite four generations ago.
She is the epitome of beauty. Her statue looms to the left of the dark opening. A pointed archway into the unknown.
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The Green and Red Dragon Tattoo
by Laura Shell
A misogynist gets his comeuppance from the special ink of a tattoo.
SHANE DIDN’T LIKE THIS guy one bit. Within ten minutes of tattooing the back of his right calf, he’d proven to be the largest misogynistic asshole Shane had ever met. So Shane brought out the special ink.
“Hey guy, I work better if it’s quiet in here,” Shane said.
“Oh, okay. But you have to admit that Kim Kardashian has li READ MORE...
Blood Offering
by Paul Lonardo
When the world is being ripped apart, it tears us inside out.
THE TEENAGE HUNTERS FOLLOWED the cottontail down into the holler, jumping a makeshift fence with KEEP OUT signs posted. It was the only animal they’d seen the entire afternoon, which was why they pursued it so doggedly. The two brothers, Asher and Hudson Mullins, went one way, while Liam Turner darted in the opposite direction toward a craggy roc READ MORE...
Reciprocity
by Chantell Renee
She hates Easy Cheese, and it’s her way out of a hopeless life.
“I’m leaving,” Cecily said.
But her words were lost in the face of his rage.
Behind him, the gas flame flickered on the stovetop. Cecily wasn’t much of a cook, but she’d managed to not burn the Hamburger Helper this time. It didn’t matter. He’d grabbed the pan and thrown it at the wall with all his might. Now, the grou READ MORE...
What Lives Inside My Panties
by J. Rocky Colavito
Nobody was ready for this.
I HAVE NEVER REALLY understood why the word “panties” is so skeevy to people. I mean people wear them, shop for them, wash them, and even model them for oglers online. But no, I hear they’re referred to as “underwear,” “drawers,” “skivvies,” “foundation garments,” and even “unmentionables.”
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Daddy’s House
by Thomas Stewart
Inside Daddy’s house is pure hell.
I CAN’T HELP MYSELF and keep swinging the ax, reducing his face further and further to red paste. One of his eyes stares at me with a panicked look. I glare back.
My arms ache. My knees buckle. My mind tells my body to keep going. That he’s not dead, not yet. His body is still twitching. I want it to stop. No rising or falling, READ MORE...
Spanky, Slappy, and Moaner
by Hillary Lyon
A haunted hotel registers a new permanent resident.
FROM THE WINDOW OF her second story hotel room, Lara could see her dinged-up 1979 maroon Thunderbird in the parking lot. Even in the twilight, she could make out the faded sticker on the bumper: Today is the first day of the rest of your life. She’d inherited the ancient T-Bird from an old and childless hippy aunt on her mother’s side. READ MORE...
The Last Course
by Chris McAuley
When you have bitten off more than you can chew...
CAMERON VOSS HAD BEEN a god once—or as close as the digital age allowed.
Twenty-seven years old, six million followers on YouTube, nearly eleven million on TikTok. He wasn’t a comedian. He wasn’t a chef. He wasn’t a game dev.
He was just...there. A face. A laugh. A constant presence in the algorithm’s bloodstream. READ MORE...
LMS
by Basile Lebret
The end of the fucking world can only get worse, I promise.
PETR AWOKE TO THE sounds of lonely car alarms blaring far off in the distance. For a moment, he wondered if it was the reason behind his sleep disruption. Unable to arrive at a clear answer, he let his right arm fall on Ivanna’s side. The gentle curve of her hip calmed him for a while. In the moist darkness he tried to synchronize his breathing w READ MORE...
