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Let the Trees Be Burning Bright

“I’m sorry but we’ll be needin’ this tree too, younguns.” “But Pa!” “Please don’t take it, Pa!” Jeffrey and Constance wailed at their Father as he and three other large, rough men in heavy coats and workmen’s boots tramped into their one room sod house and took the first Christmas tree they’d ever had in […]

The Winter Feast of the Children

Christmas was the perfect time of year, especially in such high latitudes. There were less than four hours of daylight in Nome which meant Tarkik could move around with almost perfect impunity. To the sick inuit children, he came as a Shaman bringing the blessings of Quviasukvik, and to the white boys and girls in […]

One Wish

“This is your idea of a joke perhaps? I hate Christmas.” “I’ve never been more serious in my life and you know it.” “I told you I cannot take lives but neither can I grant them. I cannot save even one, no matter who it is. “I have but one wish for you.” “All of […]

Blood and Misery

“He looks like a cool drink of water but he’s candy-coated misery…” Autumn 1977 – Stanford University, California “As you can see in this EEG readout General, our Receiver subject’s brain waves are changing, beginning to match those of the Sender subject’s patterns we can see here on the remote receiver.” “How far away is […]

The Thaw

It wasn’t the ravenous hunger that awoke her for that had been with her since the accident. There was a sound, a new sound. Water. She could hear tiny trickles of water around her. Aleera didn’t know how long she had been in the dark with the unrelenting pressure keeping her immobile. The cold was […]

Dangerous Woman

“Somethin’ ’bout you makes me feel like a dangerous woman…” Writers Max Martin, Ross Golan, Johan Jens Erik Carlsson from Dangerous Woman performed by Ariana Grande. The latex bunny rabbit suit complete with matching mask and ears made her at once seem totally ridiculous and incredibly sexy. Anybody who had ever wanted to fuck Babs […]

Without God

The Fifth Chapter in the Undead Life of Sean Becker “I tell you I turned him, so he’s mine!” Dolingen screeched, her piercing voice terrifying Sean. “I spilled first blood, marked him for our kind. How dare you challenge me!” Marishka and Dolingen were more like animals, rivals vying for a single mate,ready to kill […]

The Romanian

He was among the locals and tourists trapped in that little shop when Italian troops declared curfew. An unseasonable cold front lightly dusted medieval Kotor with snow. He couldn’t remain until morning but preferred to leave undetected. He walked past quaint hats and other curios intending to escape out the rear. “Monsieur, stay. You’re safe with […]

Emergence

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby becomes a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.” –Friedrich Nietzsche The Fourth Chapter in the Undead Life of Sean Becker The beast clawed its way up through the moist, cool soil. It couldn’t breathe, […]

Night of Syn

“The character Hellspite only appeared in a 1963 television series based on the Russell Thorndike Doctor Syn novels. As you know, Thorndike created the fictional Christopher Syn and his alter ego, The Scarecrow in a book series he authored between 1915 and 1944, which was subsequently adapted for a 1937 movie and the aforementioned TV show.” […]