Carol Scheina is a deaf speculative author whose stories have appeared in publications such as Flash Fiction Online , Escape Pod , Diabolica...

Initially, I started this series because of the 2021 World Science Fiction Convention, DisCON which I WOULD have been attending in person if...

Gretchen Tessmer lives in the deep woods of the U.S./Canadian borderlands. Her short stories and poems have been published in many places, i...

You do not fear what you can not see, so I shut my eyes and see no evil. In my mind’s field of vision instead: a single, coral rose, remarka...

Welcome to The Week in Review , our regularly scheduled Sunday wrap-up for those too busy to follow Stupefying Stories on a daily basis. As ...

Tara’s stomach lurched. The chili’s seasoning felt off. Acidy. Sour. Jeremy, her blind date, smiled. “Well? “ Interesting .” “It’s t...

How many times do you get up to pee in the night?   Even if it’s just once, you’ve seen them. The Offs. In the season twixt November and d...

The ghosts only come out on Carnival-by-the-Sea during the offseason, when the beach is covered in the fine silt of the first snow of the y...