A woman takes folkloric and supernatural vengeance on her mother's abuser in this Fable for the Dying by Shelly Jones.

My father prided himself on hunting for sustenance, never sport. His favorite game was deer. He would bring it home, remove its hide and hang it up to let the blood drain from its body. This would be a fine way of preparing an animal for food if he didn’t use my jump ropes, and even that wouldn’t be so bad if he didn’t also hang the deer from the basketball goal at the edge of our driveway.

A one night stand turns into something altogether monstrous in this short story from Matt Cantor.

A narrative prose poem set in the mid-twentieth century. A man rents a room where he plans to host weekly poker games, but the home is haunted by a poltergeist whose supernatural screeching and tantrums disrupt the games. Years later, the man's niece imagines what sort of violent history must have taken place to bind the spirit there.

A fairytale retelling, in which a mother’s love conquers all.

In a village reduced to rubble during World War II, a woman searches for the mysterious, unceasing cries of an infant who couldn’t possibly be alive.

A photographer passing through Pittsburgh stops to take pictures of the city’s Fountain of Youth, where she finds, and loses, herself.

During his tenure as host of TV's The Price Is Right!, Bob Barker made it his mission to advocate for the spaying and neutering of pets. He ended nearly every episode of the show reminding us to do so. Even after he dies—even after we all die—his mission will not end.

Artwork partly adapted from a Photo by Michael Held on Unsplash.

When a woman's rabbits get possessed, she tries her damnedest to pretend everything is fine.

Looking for a way out of his hometown, a man descends into an old network of tunnels once used in the Underground Railroad.