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After 5 years: The two oldest founders talk about Masticadores: Felicitas Rebaque & J. Ré Crivello
1—What do you remember about the beginnings of Masticadores? Felicitas Rebaque: First of all, I want to emphasize that Juan Re Crivello contacting me and proposing that we launch Masticadores de Letras with him has been, on a literary and personal level, one of the most rewarding things that has…
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Sleep if You Dare by Cindy Georgakas
Creatures of the night Haunts my rattling bones This house- divided thunders Doors knock- floorboards creek Turn off the lights hide and seek Run for shelter terrified Werewolves take flight Nobody’s home or are they? Full moon delivers mystery No shut eye here Sleep on pins and needles With hatchet…
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Ababeel by Mehreen Ahmed
I was here in the spirit when prayers ignited hope and optimism within me that my sister was performing Hajj, not mockery. I’d asked her to pray for my family. To pray for the impossible, to pray to fix a difficult relationship, at breaking point. She called me from Mecca…
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Halloween: Visions by Ken Tomaro
I Late September and I wish you could hear what I hear, the cicadas chirping at night. all summer long. it is loud. so loud. and constant, never waning for a second. it is one of the most powerful, most incredible things you will ever hear. III and soon it…
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Halloween Costume Not Required – Act I by Suzanne Austin-Hill
Like a weed, the seed of a Monster lay dormant within me, contained all it needs to bide its time. One winter day, tangled, gnarly roots started to grow. They lay hold in the dark soil of my soul. They held my well-being hostage. They strangled my better…
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The Green Mile by Stephen King by Robbie Cheadle
What Amazon says At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers such as «Billy the Kid» Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in «Old Sparky». Guards as decent as Paul Edgecombe and as sadistic as Percy Wetmore watch over…
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Eternally Fascinating, the Vampire Endures by LindaAnn LoSchiavo
No creature of the night seems to excite writers,readers, goth fashion designers, audiences, and gamers like thevampire. While the luster of other humanoid monsters such as Frankenstein, the Mummy, and the Wolfman has faded, vampireshave retained such undying appeal that they’ve infiltrated some ofthe unlikeliest niche markets such as…
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ghost train by Katya Mills
one October of fallen apples bored by worms green and reddish moon orchards the color of dying soon a locomotive emerged from a mist hauling rusted boxcars through town unmarked like a tombstone slate telling nothing of a poor man’s fate the earth trembled the spider clutching its web she…
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Holy ghost, Fire! by Uchechukwu Onyedikam
last Friday’s vigil the binding of evil spirit a black cat arrow of the gods back to sender moon lit night catching fresh air Willy Willy etiti abalị children playing Sùwé ọgbanje next to the old mud house family planning whose turn on the ride broomstick Uchechukwu Onyedikam Lagos, Nigeria
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The Ghost in the Cellar by Nolcha Fox
She roams the rooms, sometimes a shaft of sun, or shadow out of step with light or dark. Sometimes I see her, nod my head, think nothing strange of altered space. When she sleeps upon my chest, her weight can shatter my pretense that everything is fine. In her eyes,…
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Jungle Las Campanas By Margaret Kiernan
Dan hears the carillon bells; he wonders who is playing them. They remind him of Japanese shrine bells, melodic flowerpots turned upside down to look at. He loves them, despite everything. Today is a special day for him, the anniversary of his return from living in Australia. He began living…
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The Man in the Doorway By John RC Potter
The bogeyman. The creature under the bed. The shadow that is death in disguise. The kind stranger who kills. Childhood is a wonderful world of the imagination with extremes: at one end, the fantastical and joyful landscape of lightness and hope; at the other, a frightening and jittery underworld of…
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