Stories

"What do you want," Tommy asked, looking at the shadow with his eyes, watching it as it paused to a stop in front of him, its large black beak turning slightly to the side.

Its beak opened only a crack, and human screaming of men and women, children and infants, leaked out. Screaming, and sobbing, and maniacal laughing that all filled Tommy's ears with a rotten, disgusting feeling, and replacing the ticking of Toni's clock- loud enough to wake the whole neighborhood, yet only wrecking havoc upon Tommy.

Tommy Fish, a guy with a talent for relentless bullying and hatred, gets help from the devil to bully his favorite kid, indefinitely.

Since losing all his closest friends, Remus has nothing left to live for. Indulging in booze and casual sex, he tries desperately to find something that will make him feel, but in the end there's only one thing that can. Inspired by a song by Tool.

In a post-apocalyptic world, Vampires reign supreme and Humans are destined to serve them until death. Alaric is a Resistant who has sworn to free his kin. Unfortunately, one of his missions goes awry. Not only is he captured, but he also piques the interest of the most dreaded Vampire of all: the Mad Baron. From then on, Alaric has no choice but to cooperate with the species he detests above all else; a collaboration whose secret could hold the only salvation for Humanity and the world.

Hiding from his past, Roman is doing everything he can to stay free and safe. His version of safe is just doing high speed drag racing and gambling on his wins. Roman can count the number of friends he has without any fingers and he's happiest that way. When Roman is offered a job he can't refuse, he must own up and deal with his past while trying to have a future.

The Coliseum, a place where the bloodlust of the masses is sated by the death of those whose fates are decided by others. What happens when freedom and slavery clash? Who walks away?

The story a boy with a troubled home life. He seeks to find love and to be loved by others.

Six members of the world's recently-endangered human population attempt to build a personal utopia in the ruins of an apartment building and a night club, but all of the booze, drugs, and dancing in the world can't indefinitely fend off the monsters in the streets, or quell the dangers of their own turbulent relationships.

2006 Winter Anthology Poem (essential pic)

A short story, a try-out if you must.

A young man wakes to find himself in a life that defies everything he ever deemed possible...
Is he able to leave his old life behind and accept his new life in a world that makes little sense and offers to break him at every turn?