The Winter 2007 issue of Postscripts opens with “The Twilight Express” by Christopher Fowler, a sad tale about Billy, a small town boy who wants to escape his small town for something bigger and better, if only he hadn’t gotten his girlfriend pregnant. He doesn’t want her hurt, but he does scheme his way […]
Continue ReadingParasitic ghosts possess a child. Zombies storm a library. Aliens receive murder lessons from a serial killer. A mute screams. This haunting and often surreal issue of Postscripts (a publication with which I was previously unfamiliar) makes me wish I could regularly subscribe. Peter Crowther and Nick Gevers have assembled an intriguing cast of writers […]
Continue ReadingPostscripts #11 opens strongly with “Cobwebs” by Kealan Patrick Burke, an absolutely chilling tale that starts with Alfred Ross, an aging man, forgotten in Spring Grace Retirement Home. What begins as a sad story of a man watching his friends die and feeling the sting of the world and his family moving past him, waiting […]
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