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A young man down on his luck and the old gent that lives next door - and a trapdoor in the ceiling that connects their two rooms...
It's "Repler" by Jonathan Lowe

Grandma has a story to tell you, about her daughter and wolves and terrible people...
It's "In 'The Poor Girl Taken By Surprise'" by Gemma Files

A man receives a tempting offer in a bar
It's "The Stink of Animosity" by Rob E. Boley

Two sisters share memories of "He who knows when parents have been bad or good..."
It's "To My Wondering Eyes Did Appear" by Larry C. Kay
ALSO: please check out the TRIO OF TERROR promo while you're at it! Three new stories by Jim Bihyeh (Jim Kristofic), Grady Hendrix & Tim W. Burke!

Be good for goodness sake... or Krampus will find you!
It's "Saint Nicholas' Helper" by D.K. Thompson

The Winter Solstice brings change....
It's "Widdershins" by Robert Mammone.
ALSO - a special bonus flash for X-mas:
Dealing with family relations during the holidays is murder...
It's "Coming Home" by Maria Alexander

That sticky black mass underground may *not* be oil...
It's "Black Hill" by Orrin Grey!
And that's the year in Pseudopod - please join us next year for more, more more...

An alternate future from 1905 - of cities in the vast Antarctic, overrun by an infection that leaves madness and devastation in its wake.
It's "The Republic of the Southern Cross" by the Russian decadent writer Valery Bryusov!


Being an artist's model is much harder than it appears.
It's "A Study In Flesh And Mind" by Liz Argall

Navigating modern Tokyo can be very dangerous for a teenage girl, even one with a secret...
It's "Biba Jibun" by Eugie Foster.

Sometimes, looking back is dangerous
It's "This Is Now" by Michael Marshall Smith

Cosmic Daddy's back... and he's hyper-hungry!
It's "Let There Be Darkness" by Mike Allen, read by Christiana Ellis.

Learn a dark secret about the Civil War...
It's "The Burning Servant" by Steven Saus

Stop me if you've heard this one before - an academic takes a walk by the sea...
It's "A Revelation of Cormorants" by Mark Valentine

3 flash stories about the dark spirits all around us...
It's FLASH ON THE BORDERLANDS X - DEMONICA with stories by Stephen Hodgkinson, Brady Golden & Peadar Ó Guilín / readings by Eve Upton, David Michel & Cian MacMahon.

A ghostly story from the Australian outback, where campers hear a strange voice in the darkness...
It's "The Dark And What It Said" by Rick Kennett, read by our own Graeme Dunlop

I think it was :Flash On The BorderlandsX.
One of the stories featured a talking dog. LOVED it!


Joyful gleemen and dour Christians do not mix...
It's "The Crucifixion of the Outcast" by W.B. Yeats!
Happy St. Patty's Day!

A desperate mission to a dying Earth to kill... "God"
It's "The God Complex" by Neil John Buchanan, read by Rashida Smith

This week is episode #275 - and so we bring you a story by an undisputed master of the genre...
Some young scouts scoff at the stories about a desolate field with a well, and 3 strange figures...
It's "Wailing Well" by M.R. James, read for you by David Thomas Moore.

Something is wrong with the Fathership....
It's "Our Drunken Tjeng" by Nicky Drayden, read by Laurice White - sound production (sure to bug somebody) by your truly and our much-treasured sound producer Graeme Dunlop.

Another cool April morning in Hell...
It's "The Orchard of Hanging Trees" by Nicole Cushing, read by Jonathan Sullivan

The Prophet is dead... all hail the new prophet...
It's "The Prophet's Daughters" by Michael J. DeLuca, read by Tina Connolly.

An aging Hansel is worried about his sister....
It's "Gingerbread & Ashes" by Jaelithe Ingold, read by Pete Milan

Worker or exploiter, criminal or revolutionary, everything eats in...
"The Meat Forest" by John Haggerty, read by Corson Bremer.

They just will not stop....
It's "The Women Who Watch" a previously untranslated story by renowned Belgian dark fantasist Thomas Owen (read more about him here), presented to us in English by Edward Gauvin and read by Pete Milan.

Three flash fictions about the sharpest cut on the newest thread, the latest craze that’s all the rage … it's FLASH ON THE BORDERLANDS XI - FEARFUL FASHIONS, featuring:
a mother with a unique way of making money in "A Mother of Monsters" by Guy de Maupassant, read by B.J. Harrison.
a story about the real cost of haute couture in "10 Darlings and a Handbag" by Violet Glaze, read by Marguerite Kenner.
the latest dining fads, post-apocalypse, in "Forbidden Feast in the Armageddon Cafe" by John Nakamura Remy, read by Kane Lynch.

Baby gets into the walls. How to get Baby out of the walls?
It's "Dust Bunny" by Matthew C. Dampier, read by Big Anklevich

The fine art of inspiration and inspiration of fine art...
It's "She Said" (no relation to Hasil Adkins or The Cramps!) by Kirstyn McDermott, read by Christopher Reynaga.

Run Time Error - Lives Left: 0
It's "Kill Screen" by Chris Lewis Carter, read by Josh Roseman (and some extra special guests)!

Two narrators tell a pulpy little tale of a Depression-era traveling carnival, a unique striptease act... and a mad scientist....
It's "The Bee Charmer of Beckett Falls" by Patty Templeton, read by George Cleveland & Julie Hoverson.

An obscure cult horror film finally gives up its secrets years later....
It's Final Girl Theory by A.C. Wise, read by John Meagher.

From the 1890's, it's a tale of people and animals, often in the same skin...
It's "The White Dog" by famed Russian Symbolist Fyodor Sologub, read by Tanja Milojevic.


An ancient god and a long, long bus ride in Australia...
It's "The Rainbow Serpent" by Vincent Pendergast, read by Daniel Foley.

Take some time, in your busy day of refuse trading and staving off disease, to remember those wonderful, illustrious forefathers, the Americans...
It's "The American Dead" by Jay Lake, read by Roberto Suarez!

A son of the soil meets a monster of the swamp...
It's "Lizardfoot" by John Jasper Owens, read by the astounding John Bell!

Before metroplexes (and the Faustian deal struck between chain owners and the studios for their existence), there were movie palaces and run-down grindhouses and hideous things lurking in the pits of these fleapits (not fleas!)...
It's "Coming Soon To a Theatre Near You" by noted horror writer and genre expert David J. Schow, read by the incomparable Dave Robison. Get your popcorn (with real butter) and settle in...

A bar in Naples, and powerful drink....
It's ""Demon Rum"" by Charles M. Saplak, read by Dominick Rabrun. "Skål!"

Three flash fictions about the creative impulse that drives and maddens… it's Flash On The Borderlands XII - (Black) Arts & (Dead) Letters!
- with stories by Donna Glee Williams ("Dancing"), Kenneth Yu ("Lost For Words") & Mort Castle ("Music On The Michigan Avenue Bridge")!
- read for you by Heather Welliver, Marguerite Croft & Patrick “The Voice” Bazile!

A new girl in the neighborhood makes window friends with the shut-in boy in the house across the way. A boy with a singular talent....
It's "Just Outside Our Windows, Deep Inside Our Walls" by Brian Hodge, read for you by Brian Lieberman.

Life is short and filled with stuff but can these punks find some teenage kicks in a pretty vacant old building or is there no future for the blank generation?
It's "The Squat" by Sean Logan, read for you by James Trimarco

The wreckage of a terrible storm both hides and uncovers secrets for a Korean War vet who's sister is missing...
It's "Of Ants & Men" by Charlie Bookout, read for you by Paul Tevis.

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A post-collapse world where the dead walk... but perhaps the horror doesn't arise where you'd expect....
It's "The Long Road To The Sea" by James L. Sutter, read for you by Bill Ruhsam.

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An ancient and future ruler, a way out of occupied France that was anything but, and an endless - if familiar - conflict...
for Veteran's Day - FLASH ON THE BORDERLANDS IX: IT'S WAR!, featuring 3 flash stories - "King" by C. Deskin Rink, "Number 21 Rue Le Sueur" by Edward Mcdermott and "War" by A. A. Garrison.