INNER DEMON CONTRACT I know. You are in there. In the Q-zone. Your life wasn’t a gift. Something went wrong and you failed. You didn’t have to be successful. But right now you have a second chance. Don’t be afraid my friend. I am your inner demon. We will make you a ruthless bastard asContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Efe Tusder”
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VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Samir Karimo
Zombie Nothing is as before. Since that fateful day people have gone crazy. I’m not saying it became, but it has become, which means that those events continue to affect our present. I have received one last mission, to cross the portal and spread the temporary powder. But how?. Before continuing with this story IContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Samir Karimo”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Stephen Whitter
Victoria Coach Station-Isle of Wight. An inexplicable indoor wind whips litter around my feet and bags.A newly docked Coach, it’s hot tyre smell reminds me of the roads back home in Summertime.Though we are deep in November, nearly December.Coaches smell of Summer, years of my childhood on a tourist island where Coaches abound, andContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Stephen Whitter”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Ethan Goffman
I Am an Oracle In 2025 the United States as we know it will cease to exist. In 2042 I will die, alone and impoverished, in a shoddy facility set up, quickly and haphazardly, to house the elderly and terminally ill. Between those two events, my wife will die of a medical emergency. In 2070,Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Ethan Goffman”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Carmen Grover
The Monster Shake I have never pondered the strength of a handshake…how hard to squeeze, how long to hold, how much to shake and when to release? Like my anger! The tale of the father who was battered and now himself is abusive…why? Fighting it, resisting it and even hating it, but it’s much moreContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Carmen Grover”
VOICES AND VISIONS
VOICES FROM THE FIRE VOL. 11 is availabe right now! Collected the poems, stories and illustrations from offical VOICES FROM THE FIRE blog via the Dumpster Fire Press website…covering September through November 5th (fittingly enough) We’ve doing this two years now and will be running Volume 12 daily until we reach hiatus stage where weContinue reading “VOICES AND VISIONS”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Peter Crowley
Home, at Last The backyard is crumbling. Masked men with machetes butchered the hedges. The pool is a hydrothermal vent where the bacterium LUCA enjoys the floats. Where there isn’t dirt, the grass is coarse and tan. Rabbits have pledged allegiance to a new kind. Squirrels scurry up the trees, hiding forever behind soft, white,Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Peter Crowley”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Jack Henry & Dillinger
A Drug Story Fat Freddy tells me he is out of the game. Fentanyl, he says, fucked everything up. But you can still get high, still get by, just test your shit before the party begins. Small time motherfuckers don’t care and those motherfuckers are the ones that die. Hustling down to a different partContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Jack Henry & Dillinger”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Karen Cline-Tardiff
Do Credit Cards Dream of Electric Purchases? The teller thought it was probably when I tried to buy gas at the Quik-E-Mart out on the bypass. They’d had a rash of credit card skimmers on that side of town. They issued me a new card on the spot, all shiny with little gold chip, justContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Karen Cline-Tardiff”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Carmen Grover
An Old Man Appears The weather was nice. I’ve been wanting to go to the bush for a while to see the magical world that lives within and beyond the trees. As I walked I saw chipmunks sunbathing on stumps and brown and white butterflies’ in their mourning cloaks grazed my sight. I listened toContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Carmen Grover”
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