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The After-Life Story of Pork Knuckles Malone

by MP Johnson

What’s a farm boy to do when his pet pig becomes an evil, decaying hunk of ham with slime-spewing psychic powers?

Skinners

by Adam Millard

Los Angeles, the City of Angels. At least, that’s what the brochure says. What it fails to mention is the earthquakes. Oh, and the flesh-eating creatures lying dormant beneath the concrete, waiting for the chance to surface once again. Their wait is over . . .

Cherub

by David C. Hayes

Cherub wasn't like the other boys—too slow, too rough—but he didn't deserve what that hospital did to him, and now he will make them pay.

All Art is Junk

by R. A. Harris

Lana Rivers, a girl with paintbrush hair, is missing and it's up to Lancelot, her cyborg knight, and his bionic conjoined twin, Cilia, to find her before her evil father, a disrespected artist turned mad-scientist, performs a terrible experiment on her.

Industrial Carpet Drag by Bruce Taylor

Chemicals make you do great things!

Notes from the Guts of a Hippo

by Grant Wamack

A rugged journalist travels to Brazil in search of a missing hippo researcher and the notes left behind lead to something earth shatteringly revelatory.

Moosejaw Frontier

by Chris Kelso

An unapologetic disaster of metafiction

Day of the Milkman

by S. T. Cartledge

In a world dominated by the milk industry, only one milkman survives after a terrible storm sinks all the ships and throws the Great White Sea out of balance.

Captain K and the Bearded Man Boy

by P. A. Douglas

Pat is a super hero and his alcoholic dog can talk. The world must surely be ending.

Bizarro Bizarro: An Anthology

The finest bizarro short stories from 2013.

Terence, Mephisto & Viscera Eyes

by Chris Kelso

9 new science fiction stories from Chris Kelso

Cucumber Punk

by P. A. Douglas

Cucumbers, punks, and lumber. What's not to love?

Fecal Terror

by David Bernstein

A killer turd is on the loose!