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  • The House That Never Was

    The House That Never Was

    The House That Never Was “I watched Yogi Bear and ate some animal biscuits with Horlicks – there was no kenne even though the milk was warm. Why can’t you do that Mummy? Why do you always have kenne in your Bournvita?”“Anna told me I can come back in the evening after the sun sets…

  • Fake Horror Movie Review

    Fake Horror Movie Review

    Fake Horror Movie Review Submitted this for a zine – review of a fake horror movie. I have been looking around for an international horror movie to review. After the recent success of RRR, I figured I’d check out more movies from the South Indian Telugu movie Industry (Tollywood.) If you have been living under…

  • The Witch End

    The Witch End

    The Witch End Madhu’s eighteenth birthday was only a few days away. She had already read all of her aunt’s grimoires five times. She had sorted all the magics from her most favorite to least favorite. She had picked her specialty, imagined her familiar in great detail, and started on a draft of her own…

  • Unseen in the Darkness

    Unseen in the Darkness

    Unseen in the Darkness Ray Bradbury talks about the thing on the top of the stairs, watching and waiting in the darkness. He said he was able to finally escape the thing at age thirteen when he moved west. I, on the other hand, have never been able to escape it. I found it in…

  • Older Still

    Older Still

    Older Still The concept isn’t new, neither is the idea. Since the beginning of human society, maybe even during the Stone Age, humans have tried to prevent aging and defy death. The obsession to live forever seems to be embedded in a majority of us. There have been leaps of medical advancement and tons of…