A horror story collection that is sure to keep you up at night… The human mind is an incredible organ. It shoots synapses through trillions of connections to the more than 100 billions nerves in our bodies. But what happens when one of those connections goes bad? What happens when there is a misfire? What happens when some minds break, and people stop functioning “correctly”? Join the writers featured in the fifth volume of Ink Stains as they explore what happens when good people go bad or mad. When misfiring brains can no longer separate fact from fiction…or maybe it is all fact, and it is us, not they who are mad. Andrew Benn, Tiffany Michelle Brown, Don Cox, Elana Gomel, Leigh Harlen, Jason K. Kawa, Adrian Ludens, RJ Murray, Peter Emmett Naughton, Michael Picco, Paul Tanner, Timothy A. Wiseman explore these themes and other dark delights that may leave you questioning what is real.

The August, 2014 issue edited by Christopher T Garry features 140 pages of never before seen stories from eight new authors, creating narratives that are variously dark, cynical, inspiring, violent and longing. Black Denim Lit is a monthly journal of fiction available on the web and eReaders. "Armed" by Robert Stiles (Sal Noman recieves an arm in the mail.); "Blood Melody" by Tiffany Michelle Brown (Layla is slowly starving in the ocean); "Fluttering in the Remains" by Rhoads Brazos (Manny and his son Theo take over a junkyard and find it inhabited); "The Imperfect Patsy" by John Dromey (Lewis Poindexter finds his work shifting from detecting to killing); "The Quickening" by Kate Morrow (Four friends are bloodbound in dystopia); "The Job" by Scott Blankenship (An assassin makes a change in his routine); "The Helmet" by Sean Monaghan (Salvage experts have a go outrunning ... the government?); "A Suitable Poison" by Linda Boroff (Berta sets off the culture of a magazine publishing firm with its grueling schedule and office politics with wry regard for youth, relationships and power.) The work draws from fantasy, crime, science fiction and drama. Such genre variety is brought together under the common thread of rich characterization. In all the stories this month, these are human beings at odds. Whether they face a gun, a monster, a co-worker or the vastness of space, each of these players respond from a very deep place of truth. And regardless of which genre can be applied, the authors have surprises in store.

Whisper House Press's first anthology: a collection of suburban, social, and psychological horror shorts. Contributions from diverse contributors including award winners as well as new writers.

28 horror stories and poems about the human connection to the stars.

The Divine Five have spent the bulk of their young lives saving the world by ridding it of super villains, but how exactly did the five members get their powers and become the legendary crime fighting team?Divine Five: Dawn introduces readers to the origins of the Five and some of the obstacles they had to overcome early in their career as the world's most dependable superheroes.

Every tattoo tells a story... A submissive pain slut receives a tattoo as a reward for years of selfless service. A man's body is used to deliver a very different kind of message to a domineering masochist. An exotic teahouse on an alien planet where one woman explores her submissiveness with a set of shapeshifting twins. These and other sizzling stories take you to the places where kink meets ink and leave you indelibly marked.

One afternoon, the pelicans came in. Masses of them. More than I had ever seen in one place at the same time. They swarmed the jetty where a group of tourists had decided to toss them a scrap or two. I remember thinking this could get really ugly, really quickly if those long, deep beaks were filled with teeth...Thuggish Itch's seventh collection, Birds Have Teeth, features twenty short stories that depict what might ensure if our feathered friends suddenly developed teeth. As you would likely expect if that situation were to be true, there are very few happy endings.