by melanofly Love3
Category Archives: Bang*Bang no. 93
24
Oct
Who’s Afraid
by shukyou (主教) illustrated by Shrimp King The bouncer on the sorority house’s front porch folded his arms across his chest and scowled down the stairs at Dagmar. “Buzz off.” Under nearly any other circumstances, Dagmar would have buzzed right off, and gladly. But Jessy had been talking about this for a full month […]
24
Oct
Prodigals
by Shirozubon Saruko (城図凡然る子) illustrated by 2013 “Bathal vel Vathat super Abrac ruens,” Ben finished, louder, with all the command he could muster. Nervous sweat prickled down his brow, getting into his eyes. “Absor veniens super Aberer.“ Then it was done. And after that… He wouldn’t say appeared, exactly. The chair he’d put in the […]
24
Oct
Highway Hypnosis
by murasaki Bored and confined in the gray-green slog of a Midwestern highway, Paul decided to think about dicks. He’d given up on his podcast when the rain started flinging itself at his windshield with a pattering, thunderous scream. There was no actual thunder or lightning. It was just a good hard afternoon rainstorm, […]
24
Oct
Second Coming
by spitkitten “Crikey,” Chrissy Peveril said, barefoot and slightly breathless from hauling the boat up onto the sand. “Not exactly the Riviera, what? No wonder nobody lives here.” Leo had never been anywhere near the Riviera, but he couldn’t imagine it looked much like this. Liverston Island: a lumped mass of grey sand and bare […]
24
Oct
Jeremy comes to the end of the road
by Hyakunichisou 13 (百日草 十三) Being a zombie didn’t hurt as much as Jeremy had expected it would. He was pretty sure getting bitten had, though even that was drowned in the memory of scalding fear and searing panic and the sight of a couple of people he barely knew going down under a wave […]
24
Oct
Certain Fathoms In The Earth
by Shiawasena Ryokō-sha In the woods, in the roots, in the bones of the earth, there is a cave, and in that cave rots the dreams of the whole wide world; and at the bottom, amongst the jagged, ever-growing teeth of stone, where living mortal should fear to go, I dwell. That is the […]
24
Oct
Chiaroscuro
by Nori Kanfuyu (法 寒冬) illustrated by Tamago Sébastien’s body was lying on the floor directly in front of the fire grate. I finished drying my hands while looking down at it. The flickering flames changed the shape of his face over and over, each dying light making him a different man. I put my […]
24
Oct
Yours Until My Heart Dies
by Togi Kayako (土宜草子) Honey-gold light brighter than flame dazzled Aevan’s eyes as he walked through Marya’s portal. He stepped forward off of the stone of her workroom and staggered as his boot sank calf-deep in snow. A sharp wind snapped his heavy brown braid out to one side. Rook’s amulet rested warm at the […]
24
Oct
Aperitif
by Iron Eater In the end everything always came back around to Reggie, no matter how much energy Les poured into the project, and it was coloring their work in ways Les hadn’t anticipated. Les’s morning routine involved sitting himself down at the kitchen table with his laptop to see what all the little people […]
24
Oct
Asking Nicely
by Rick-O-Matic Basketball: Lynn! My horrifically intelligent superior! I know that I, Antonio B. Carreon, have been your gainfully employed assistant for six-odd months, but don’t you think that you and I… share a fiery spark between us? That we– Lynn: No. But fine. Strip. Basketball: Wh–?! Lynn: Carreon. If you do not actually wish […]
