Fictional Short Story About Anorexia

The Heart Fails Without Warning is a beautifully written story about a family’s struggle with anorexia.  It starts like this: September: when she began to lose weight at first, her sister had said, I don’t mind; the less of her the better, she said. It was only when Morna grew hair – fine down on [...]

Supernatural Romance Free Online Fiction Series

Dionne Galace has yet another great fictional series going on at her blog Dionne Galace, It’s Not Chick Porn.  If you like supernatural romance, then you don’t want to miss this.  Here’s the premise: After five years, Daisy Sawyer has finally come home. Not that she’s too happy about it. She had a great life [...]

Hamster Fiction — The Next Big Thing?

Time after time, people write to me and say, “Edie, where I can I go to find spectacularly written stories about hamsters?”  Okay, nobody has ever actually asked me that, but if they did, I would have to tell them:  Tooty Nolan. Tooty Nolan is the pen name of the eccentric and exceedingly funny author [...]

Needle! Now! Broken!

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 [...]

Tonight I Read, Knuckle-Deep

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 [...]

Bram Stoker Award Winner to Guest-Blog at A Bunch of Wordz

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 [...]

This is Now

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, [...]

As If Death Was Contagious

“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 [...]

cyberpunk…in the beginning

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 [...]

The Undreaming

“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, [...]