Vacancy

In the wake of a global disorder, a paranormal investigator takes up a new case involving a disappearance in an English seaside town, while trying to reconcile the ghosts of her own past.

“McShine?” I said. The woman looked up from her whiskey tumbler, smiled. Relieved, I tucked my suitcase and rucksack under the bar and slipped onto the tall stool next to her. Only the Visitee would have responded to my knowing her user-name on r/eerie_england. It was on this subreddit that I first became aware of her situation, or as I prefer to think of it, her situation first became aware of me.

A dark and gloomy English street.

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Out of the sky

Dan Benamor

It was partially obscured by clouds. In a way, this made the sight even more distressing. Because it left ambiguous the full size of the thing in the sky. I knew, intellectually, things, objects, could be that large. And at first, I assumed it had to be an object. It wasn’t a meteor. I’m not a scientist, but what little I know of meteors led me to believe a meteor would approach much faster. What then? A craft of some kind? This gray, wide, enormous entity in the sky.

Night Owls

A cataclysmic event known as "The Switch" splits mankind in two, overnight—Daywalkers, people who live during the day, and Nocturnals, people who can only survive at night. In the aftermath of The Switch, an engaged Daywalker couple’s relationship is tested as the new paradigm threatens to pull them into two different worlds.

Issue IV May 2024

Metal State

I was straddling consciousness, but awake enough to make out the shapes outside the passenger-side window. Strewn about and forgotten in the hazy landscape were rotting corpses and ruined vehicles, the result of failed attempts to penetrate the fog. So, either Matt figured a way through, outsmarting the best scientists and military experts on our side, or a Simulant brought him in.

Issue III Dec 2023

Out of the Sky

Nothing good comes from bare feet on the highway. I knew something important was in the sky, because the driver in front of me came to a full stop in the center lane and got out of his car. For whatever reason, he wasn’t wearing shoes. I didn’t have much time to ponder the reason. I put my sedan in park, followed his gaze and stared. In the daylight, what I saw threatened to collapse my psyche.

Issue II Oct 2023