Category: Horror Fiction

Workshop (Evening Theatre) Submissions (2018)

These posts were from five years ago.

(Narrative) The Haunted Caboose – (Music) A Descending Journey

Originally published with Fictional Pairings.

By. Joshua Scully Staying several steps ahead of her younger sister, Jessica periodically checked to confirm a matchbook remained securely in her …

(Narrative) The Haunted Caboose – (Music) A Descending Journey

(Narrative) Floating over a Spider – (Music) Run

Originally published with Fictional Pairings.

By. Joshua Scully The cable ladder twisted violently in a ripping burst of wind. Distracted by some distant irregularity not yet observed by the …

(Narrative) Floating over a Spider – (Music) Run

FICTION — Hot Air Balloon Ride From Hell

Another old favorite.

Savannah pulled her shirt over her head, and Gabe couldn’t help but stare as the two triangular Confederate battle flags of her bikini top strained …

FICTION — Hot Air Balloon Ride From Hell

“Frozen Nightmare “

A chilling sleep begins.

The carnage and chaos had ended.
He was the only survivor.
Recognizable remains littered the corridors. Blood pooled over artificial gravity wells.
A course to Earth was set, and he gingerly collapsed into a cryogenics pod.
As the pod sealed, a motion light kicked on.

“No Broomstick Necessary”

He toured the entirety of his ancestral homeland without a single step.

After he signed the book, he decided to vacation in Portugal before getting down to business.

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“A Haunting Light-years Away”

“I hear voices and scratching,” the child whispered beneath a heavy comforter.

Darkness blanketed the Montes Apenninus just beyond his son’s bedroom window.

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“Revenge Postmortem”

A piece for the working man.

Although the family feared trouble and planned a special burial, anarchists got the body of George Pullman before the earth did.

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