by Jim Stitzel | Aug 2, 2024 | Stories
Lightning splits the sky, making contact with the lightning rod on the Capital building. Only, instead of disappearing, the bolt remains, freeze-framed between cloud and building. Another bolt, and another freeze-frame. Over the course of the next ten minutes, dozens...
by Jim Stitzel | Jul 30, 2024 | Stories
Expelled. That was the only word Jace could think of as he heaved the large, blackish-brown mass out of his stomach and onto the ground. It smelled like toxic waste and looked even worse. And just seconds before, that thing had been inside of him. He suppressed a...
by Jim Stitzel | Jul 21, 2024 | Stories
Spider shells, littering the floor to the bedroom. Vague carcasses left behind after the creatures molted and outgrew their skins. But that isn’t how spiders work, is it? Well, not for these spiders, at least. Creepy webs all up on the walls, the ceiling, filled...
by Jim Stitzel | Jul 18, 2024 | Stories
The globe he found himself standing on was small. Very small. Like, he could walk all the way around it in just 20-30 minutes. So, a couple of miles in circumference? He wasn’t 100% sure how he got to this globe, though he knew with keen certainty that it was...
by Jim Stitzel | Jul 16, 2024 | Stories
He needed his sense of humour. So of course that was the very thing they surgically removed from him. He could see it there, in a jar, on the shelf, pulsing quietly. He didn’t know why they had removed it, but he was really in no position to ask questions, strapped as...
