WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 30

The Pit of the Serpent by Robert E. Howard

They claimed that the old man had a knuckle-duster on his right, which is ridiculous and a dirty lie. He had it on his left.

WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 29

The Return of the Sorcerer by Clark Ashton Smith

Among the weird appurtenances of the room, in that atmosphere of unmanifested evil, of untold horror, the rational part of my mind began to succumb slowly to a recrudescence of dark ancestral fears.

WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 28

Smoother by Terry Bisson

And no matter what we do, it keeps going at the same speed, winding its way around the world, smoothing out whatever is in front of it, leaving behind a mile-wide smooth strip of nothing, like a yellow brick road.

WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 27

Pop Tarts by Lauren Beukes‬

‪It’s a very competitive market now that everyone and their domestic worker has public access broadcast rights and a private channel to call their own. Not to mention big-time sponsor deals.‬

WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 26

Inglaf’s Dream by Ama Darr Rogen‬

‪“And then, I understand that these folk believe that . . . that they are us and that we are naught but their fantasy, their playthings for an idle hour.”‬

WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 25

The Captives by Elmore Leonard

"We're taking him with us."
"What for"
"Because I say so. That reason enough?"
"Frank, we could run him for the well and both take a crack at him."
"Get the horses."

WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 24

Dial Tone by Lauren Beukes‬

‪Sometimes she would just pick up the handset and listen to the dial tone. Sometimes that was enough.‬

WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 23

A Stone’s Throw Away by Roger E. Moore‬

‪Tasslehoff flipped the book shut with a gasp. Hesitantly, he reached for another, hoping it was less loathsomely illustrated.‬

WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 22

Tell Them They Are Full of Shit and They Should Fuck Off by Terry Bisson

Tell them they are full of shit and they should fuck off.

WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 21

The River by Flannery O'Connor

If he had thought about it before, he would have thought Jesus Christ was a word like "oh" or "damn" or "God," or maybe somebody who had cheated them out of something sometime.

WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 20

The Underdweller by William F. Nolan

Stillman shuddered; he could envision them, shrieking, scrabbling at the shelves, throwing books wildly across the room at one another. Screaming, ripping, destroying.

WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 19

An Extravaganza in Two Acts by Leigh Newman

She felt upward along her thigh, tied off, and inserted a brass syringe. "Medicinal," she said, the way she always did when he forgot not to watch.

https://electricliterature.com/performing-polite-society-on-the-alaskan-frontier-580d8b3d0321

WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 18

Saint with a Six-Gun by Elmore Leonard

"Bohannon's downstairs."
Lyall said, "He want to see me?"
"When you go out he won't be able to help it," said Barney.

WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 17

Nothing Goes to Waste by Hugh Howey‬

‪It reminded me of the step I'd forgotten. Juinco's insistence returning to me at the odor of my burning flesh.

WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 16

Branded by Lauren Beukes‬

‪No rinkadink light show this: she's signed up for nanotech that changed the bio-structure of her cells, made 'em phosphorescent in all the right places.

WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 15

Holy Water by Nathan Thomas.

If your IPA has a bird on the bottle, your IPA sucks because IPAs are mostly terrible garbage anyway. There’s a reason Budweiser is the king of beers.
http://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/holy-water

WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 14

Muse by Lauren Beukes

…there were fishhooks in the fingertips that drew blood with every keystroke.

WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 13

Confirm/Ignore by Lauren Beukes‬

Aren't we all remixes of every influence we've ever come across? Love something, let it go. If it comes back, it's a meme. There's a double me in meme.

WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 12

Sing by Karin Tidbeck

They leave the children and wait among the trees with their backs turned. They don’t speak of what has happened during the wait.

WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 11

Trouble at Rindo's Station by Elmore Leonard

There was a time when Bonito might have fired at the rider far below on the road, and for no other reason than to test his carbine, since the rider was a white man.