by Ali Seay | Mar 25, 2023 | Women In Horror, New Fiction, New Horror, Fiction
She hides herself in the stacks and then she screams for me. I came back from my newly nested home in the warm hills of Los Angeles to care for this woman, and she hides in her doom piles and shrieks for me. “Mother! I can’t help you if you hide from me,” I call. I...
by Sarah Sexton | Mar 23, 2023 | New Fiction, New Horror, Fiction, Women In Horror
Grace had a small scar on her chest—no longer than a fingernail, no wider than floss— that I never asked about. It was visible for the few weeks every summer when the air smelled like melting tar and sweat and she resigned herself to wearing flowy sundresses that...
by Willow Dawn Becker | Mar 21, 2023 | Fiction, Women In Horror, New Fiction, New Poetry, Poetry
There are hearts that beat somewhere In tangled sheets that trip and noose Or coil around bodies, Rabbit-fast, and faster, harder. Unaware that their drum Is an echo of something started Long before— A shadow of the emptiness to come. But my heart beats...
by Aya Maguire | Mar 18, 2023 | Fiction, Women In Horror, New Fiction
When my mother went through the wormhole in the summer of ‘95, I sat on my porch waiting for her light to return—as if she, like a star, would simply gather into existence out of the dark. She had discovered the wormhole, she and her team. I wanted to be just like...
by Bindia Persaud | Mar 13, 2023 | Women In Horror, New Fiction, New Horror
This new fiction is a part of the Women in Horror blog series by Weird Little Worlds Press. Read more entries here. *** The baby shower was finally winding down. Half-eaten canapés lay scattered on sideboards and end tables, alongside abandoned plastic cups. Women...
by Jennifer Howell | Mar 6, 2023 | Women In Horror, New Fiction, New Horror
Power, immortality, perfect skin. These were the things Vanyan dangled in front of me while he ran his fingers over my neck like he was assessing a real estate investment. I’d had one margarita too many at girl’s night and wandered out the Emergency Door into Tito’s...
