Monday, May 10, 2010

5 Second Fiction One Thousand Two Hundred and Ninety Eight

Fuego worked as a substitute teacher and kept order in the classroom with quiet authority and the occasional sleeper hold.

5 Second Fiction One Thousand Two Hundred and Ninety Seven

She pulled aside the cushions of her new couch to find a mummified body. She whispered, "That's the last time I use Craigslist."

5 Second Fiction One Thousand Two Hundred and Ninety Six

In his dreams Karl made love to a woman who was soft and warm in his arms; when he awoke his pillow was unspeakably squishy.

Sunday, May 9, 2010

New amended posting schedule.

The new posting schedule is;

Sundays- PRICE BREAKS AND HEARTACHES

Tuesdays- IN THE SHADOW OF HIS NEMESIS

Friday- FRIDAY FLASH

(Recommended Reads) "Acorn" by Louise Dragon

The acorn-like rock first appeared on Mother's Day; Tina vaguely remembers this, although not sure about the significance ...


Tina Marshall drives the same route every day. Back roads so that she can speed and not have to worry about patrolling state police cars. Thirty miles to work her job as a pediatric med tech at Haden General Hospital every day and then thirty miles back home; the same route, day in and day out. The familiar scenery passes her by each day like a well-known movie set...

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HORRORSQUAD's fascinating review for THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE

French writer Georges Bataille said that "men are swayed by two simultaneous emotions: they are driven away by terror and drawn by an awed fascination. Taboo and transgression reflect these two contradictory urges. The taboo would forbid the transgression but the fascination compels it." That about sums it up for most people who have sought out The Human Centipede (First Sequence) -- and really, horror cinema in general...

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Second Sunday Of May

my first memory
my first tragedy

we knew laughter
and rage

lost photographs
and treasured memories

you could have been stronger
I could have been kinder

we'll love each other forever
but we never knew each other