Days of Madness 4
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They lay in the twilight watching the shapes blur so that the claws looked like small knives on the floor. Harry got up and went down to the kitchen where he got himself a beer from the fridge and walked over to the back door. He looked down at the burnt body and stepped into the yard.
He had to tread over the clumps of fur that lay scattered everywhere. Some of them were dessicated, some had bits of flesh attached to them and were in various stages of decomposition. At the edge of the yard was a head, dried and bleaching from the sun.
Some animals were gathering at the yard’s end, scavenging for bits of still edible meat. They watched Harry, staying back until he went inside.
He cleaned his knife, polished it, and put it back in its case.
Then he got the body from the yard and put it on the floor.
Jocelyn came into the kitchen and stood there looking at it.
‘Smells good,’ she said. ‘I want you to barbecue the sink beast.’
‘Get your fine old sauces dripping.’
‘They already are baby. We live in our secrets high as rotting meat.’
‘I’ll spoon the flesh into your savage mouth.’
Jocelyn curled her tongue up to her lip as the light caught the gold stud in it.
And Harry started making supper.
About the Authors
Angel Zapata writes fiction and poetry. The first thirty years of his life were spent in NYC, but he has since relocated to Augusta, Georgia. He is the author of the poetry chapbook, “An Offering of Ink and Feathers.” He’s also the recipient of the 2012 Mariner Award for Bewildering Stories’ most outstanding flash fiction work of the year, “Carrion Folk,” and a winner of the Micro Horror 2012 Story Contest for his horrific tale, “The Blood Worms.”
Erin Cole writes dark and strange fiction. Her work can be found in many places, including Dark Moon Books, Bards & Sages Quarterly, Roar and Thunder, Liquid Imagination, and Days of Madness 8 & 9, with more forthcoming in Niteblade Fantasy and Horror Magazine and a novella with Damnation Books. www.erincolewrites.com
Absolutely*Kate Pilarcik -- noir, crime-thriller suspense author -- has an esteem for words sailing decades, when dames were dames and wise guys who got in their way had to fast-shuffle outta the way. Her jazzy lit-prose appears in seven acclaimed anthologies, with feature stories and interviews in award-winning ezines. Prolifics on their way? Novella “THE DAMP FEDORA” a worthy memoriam collection of colleague author A.J. Hayes … launch of SHADOWS KNOW, an enchanting author-excerpt site. Absolutely*Kate’s network of readers’ sites showcase authors on their soar ~ *AT THE BIJOU* ("Writers' raves for Readers' faves") … AUTHORS RISING … THE ESPRESSO CAFÉ … Women*Lovers*Friends & Mothers. As Femme Fatale author/promoter, she is brand ambassador for Noir Nation, headed into The Fight Card ring and soon pumping pulp fiction for Pro Se Press.Honoured to be in cast of Chris Allinotte’s DAYS OF MADNESS 4. She thanks you for your read, nudges your enthuse for Indie Author distinction. Absolutely*Kate has moxie. World needs more moxie.
Benjamin Sobieck is the author of the Maynard Soloman crime fiction humor series and the Cleansing Eden crime thriller novel. Writer's Digest will publish his guide to firearms and knives in crime fiction at the end of 2014. His website is CrimeFictionBook.com.
Park Cooper and Barb Lien are writers. They've done comic book/graphic novel things, but when they got tired of waiting on pencillers, inkers, colorists and letterers, they switched to prose, and have been published in Mirages: Tales from Authors of the Macabre, Something More Than Blood, Gun Street Girl Volume 1 and more Gun Street Girl.
William Davoll. Although not slave to a specific genre, William Davoll enjoys spending most of his time skirting around the darker sides of literature. In 2013 he released his first collection of dark poetry titled "The Five Daughters of Spite" available through both Amazon and Smash Words.
Mav Skye has never swallowed five hundred and twenty six sugar pills, however, she wouldn't mind five hundred and twenty six sugar cubes mixed with cream and coffee. Her short stories have been published in a few magazines, and her first psychological suspense e-Short, The Undistilled Sky, is out on Amazon. Find more at www.mavskye.com.
R.S. Bohn has had work appear in Three-Lobed Burning Eye, The Molotov Cocktail, and 101 Fiction, among other places. She is currently working on a novel about pirates without a ship. She is certain she is one.
Chris Allinotte is the editor of the Days of Madness events and ebooks. He lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where it is very cold for six months of the year. His collection of short stories, Gathering Darkness is available wherever ebooks are sold.
Richard Godwin is the author of critically acclaimed novels Apostle Rising, Mr. Glamour and One Lost Summer, Noir City and Confessons Of A Hit Man. He is also a published poet and a produced playwright. His stories have been published in over 34 anthologies, among them his anthology of stories, Piquant: Tales Of The Mustard Man. Richard Godwin was born in London and obtained a BA and MA in English and American Literature from King's College London, where he also lectured. You can find out more about him at his website www.richardgodwin.net , where you can also read his Chin Wags At The Slaughterhouse, his highly popular and unusual interviews with other authors.
About the Illustrator
Niall Parkinson is an Irish artist specializing in the origination of dark, surreal, conceptual and spiritual hand drawn illustration from which he explores the darker regions of the human heart and experience. His background is in commercial graphic design and he had spent over 20 years working in this capacity within the printing industry. Niall has also had success in the music industry designing cd covers and booklets primarily for European metal bands.
His real interest now lies in pursuing his illustration service DARK AGE DESIGN from which he hopes to concentrate his work within publishable areas which incorporate horror and nightmarish themes and dark, spiritual concepts such as printed/online magazines, book illustration and cover design with perhaps some comic book work etc.
Niall's work can be seen at the following sites: https://neonangelus68.wix.com/dark-age-design or www.artwanted.com/parky68