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Issue 5 ✷ October 2020
Medusa
“Medusa” is the featured artwork for our October issue of 2020, “Monster.”
Tirdof
A Jewish Partisan stumbles across an injured Wehrmacht soldier in the forests outside of Minsk.
Between the Shadow and the Soul
It’s been centuries since the Creatures were bound beneath the earth. Now, they live in basements, underground tunnels, laundry rooms of apartments with flickering lights and stale air. Humanity has grown complacent, forgetting them, taking them for granted. But there is magic in the Creatures, and one woman braves the darkness to discover just how magical their union can be.
I’m On the Outside (Don’t Know How to Get to You) — Part 2
Aithne lived on the edge of the wood, near where the Veil separated the Fae realm from the human one, carving out a new life for herself far from the home she once knew. When Sebastian stumbled through the Veil as summer faded into fall, Aithne takes him into her home until she can find a way for him to get back. Fate, her heart and Aithne’s sister all have other plans for the two of them.
The Monster Mash
I am a centuries’-old vampire who is grumpy and set in my ways, and I really do not understand why humans are so fascinated by me and my kind every Halloween.
The Mothman Cometh
These days, Morgan finds excitement in the small things: daydreaming about long-deferred vacations, swiping through matches on monster-dating apps, and battling incipient moth infestations at her yarn shop. Anything for some stimulation amid smothering predictability. Except it turns out her moth problem is bigger than she thought. Much bigger. She’s pretty sure she’s seen pornos that start like this…