THE ABSENT WILLOW REVIEW: UPDATE

Jurisdiction
by Manek R. Mistry

Released from its rack in the elevator bay, Ginger eased into the flow of departing traffic and accelerated. When the ship had cleared the elevator terminal, Rashna loaded her flight plan into the navigation computer and allowed the software to take control. Although her classmates had scored jobs in the piloting departments...

Interview: Jim Butcher
We like to say a few words about the author we are interviewing but in this instance nothing we can say would top Jim’s own self-written bio. To top it of we have to also give Jim the “Best Advice Award” that we’ve seen in a long time. After your done laughing you realize it...

Under the Scotch Broom

by Allison M. Dickson

A boy named Elvis came to me with a plan to help save the world.When I first saw him walk through the revolving door, looking like a minnow lost in a sea of sharks, I felt a flash of recognition. The morning commuters skirted around him in the same subconscious way that [...]

Too Much Mud

by Bruce James Lin

I told him you couldn’t do that with a zombie, but Gene just shrugged it off.“You just don’t get us,” he said. “You’re just jealous that I have someone.”I wasn’t. I tried to convince him that he was wrong. He was infatuated. I talked about how they weren’t human. I talked about [...]

The Sea Cave
by Amber Foster

At 130 feet below the surface, I find myself thinking of that Frost poem, the one about the woods. The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, it goes, but I can’t remember the rest. I never did too good in school, but for some reason the first line of that poem stuck in [...]

Under The Ol’ Wheelbarrow
by Kyle Opperman

There is something very innocent sounding about the title I’ve hastily attached to this manuscript. Perhaps it is appropriate, for the business I am about to relate began innocently enough. Perhaps it isn’t. But I must not hesitate to tell my tale, for it is meant as a serious warning–a warning to those [...]

My Shadow Only Dances For Me
by Eric Dimbleby

There’s a shadow that lives in my fireplace and I fear that he is in the final grips of dementia. His condition has been worsening for quite some time, and I fear that he is beyond return. His chuckles and fleeting feet have been replaced by a grim dissatisfaction with his plight… a [...]

Creature Comforts
by James A. Ford

It was outside the door.I could hear its weirdly- intelligent scratching against the solid oak of the basement door. The creature was searching for a way in, that was clear. It was very clever, there was no doubt it understood that the door was all that stood between us; no doubt it [...]

Flowers for Colleen
by Roland Allnach

It was the first Saturday morning of the month, and Darryl went to get flowers for Colleen, as was his routine. He stood in the florist shop, waiting behind a rather impatient man, while the young woman behind the counter prepared the man’s bouquet. The customer stood there, his impatience evident in the [...]

The Binary Man
by David Keight

Stalwart Johnson was having trouble sleeping again. He had been having the same trouble for two-hundred and eighty nine days now. The headlights of a car outside sent a wave of light rushing over his bedroom ceiling as they snook in under the blinds. The light went and faded as the car scuttled [...]

A Perfect Summer Day
by Janine Queenin

Through the window of the taxi she saw nothing but pavement — then sky –- pavement — then sky as the cab flipped across three lanes toward the guardrail. The thunderous crush of steel and glass against asphalt was deafening. The woman in the backseat heard only the scream from her throat.

Mourning Light
by Pamela J. Jessen

As evening drains the sunlight from the sky, he moves, a fluid shadow in the mist. A hunger builds inside he can’t deny, his vampire thirst a curse he can’t resist.

Spectral Compromise
by Maria Mitchell

Something is coming Sickly, but sly, Something is coming;You best let it by...

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