Wow. Needle! Now! Broken! by Brett Allen Smith is a short story written in a very different and very cool style. Me like. You read:
“He felt the absence immediately upon waking, so obvious that he fell out of his bed, tearing from his arms the tubes that had only the day before been preserving him. [...]
This quote is from “Self-Made Man” by the wonderfully dark and talented writer, Poppy Z. Brite:
“An artist who doesn’t read is no artist at all, he had scribbled in a notebook he once tried to keep, but abandoned after a few weeks, sick of his own thoughts. Books are the key to other minds, sure as [...]
Horror writer, Michael A. Arnzen, was born, appropriately enough, in Amityville, New York. He won the Bram Stoker Award in 2005 (and 2003 and 1994), as well as awards from the International Horror Critics Guild and the Genre Writers Association.
I’m very pleased to announce that he will be guest-blogging here at A Bunch of Wordz [...]
Did you know that the BBC hosts an online magazine called Cult Vamp? Well, it does. Or at least it did. They’ve stopped maintaining it, but you can still find lots of cool/scary/weird fiction, art, and video clips.
And speaking of cool/scary/weird fiction, the short story “This Is Now” by award-winning novelist, Michael Marshall Smith, is, [...]
“As If Death Was Contagious” is the first published literary short story by Rachel Maizes, and wow, is it good…
“At school, I went to chemistry and English and showed up for swim practice and competed in swim meets. But even as I moved from the classroom to the locker room to the pool, I was [...]
What is cyberpunk? Answers.com defines it as “fast-paced science fiction involving futuristic computer-based societies.” The term was coined by Bruce Bethke in his short story of the same name. Here is an excerpt:
“Lisa is Rayno’s girl, or at least she hopes she is. I can see why: Rayno’s seventeen–two years older than the rest of [...]
“The Undreaming,” is a sort of dark love story, or perhaps it is about the absence of love. Written by Monica Rana of Nepal, it is also a glimpse into another world, a perfumed and bejewled world of dark, beautiful women wrapped in bright, beautiful cloth, as well as a world of want, and hurt, [...]
There are a lot of poorly written stories on the internet. And a few gems. Charles Lambert presents us with one such gem. Polished and well-crafted, ”The Crack” sparkles with character and precision, like a diamond cut to perfection.
“Joey tells me about his brother-in-law, a bagpipe-player with a wounded hand who busks the south coast of France with Joey’s sister [...]
