Dark Moments

Evolution by Petina Strohmer sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 550px, (min-width: 750px) calc((100vw - 130px) / 2), calc((100vw - 50px) / 2)" alt="Evolution by Petina Strohmer" class="motion-reduce" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="630" >

Evolution by Petina Strohmer

The atmosphere is thick and foul, and the rivers run an oily black. The planet's squealing inhabitants are packed so tightly together, the barren ground beneath their feet is barely...

Evolution by Petina Strohmer

The atmosphere is thick and foul, and the rivers run an oily black. The planet's squealing inhabitants are packed so tightly together, the barren ground beneath their feet is barely...

Forewarnings by Sam Snyder sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 550px, (min-width: 750px) calc((100vw - 130px) / 2), calc((100vw - 50px) / 2)" alt="Forewarnings by Sam Snyder" class="motion-reduce" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="630" >

Forewarnings by Sam Snyder

The radios went out forty minutes ago. We’re too far underground—the water dripping from the ceiling is frigid—but none of us wanted to leave after seeing the first of the...

Forewarnings by Sam Snyder

The radios went out forty minutes ago. We’re too far underground—the water dripping from the ceiling is frigid—but none of us wanted to leave after seeing the first of the...

An Excavation by Cailín Frankland sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 550px, (min-width: 750px) calc((100vw - 130px) / 2), calc((100vw - 50px) / 2)" alt="An Excavation by Cailín Frankland" class="motion-reduce" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="630" >

An Excavation by Cailín Frankland

They took our relics first: pots and tools, playthings and jewellery. This we tolerated, chuckling at their blustering talk of papers, conferences, museum displays. We bore their ambition, indulged their...

An Excavation by Cailín Frankland

They took our relics first: pots and tools, playthings and jewellery. This we tolerated, chuckling at their blustering talk of papers, conferences, museum displays. We bore their ambition, indulged their...

The Doctor Will Be With You Shortly by Weird Wilkins sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 550px, (min-width: 750px) calc((100vw - 130px) / 2), calc((100vw - 50px) / 2)" alt="The Doctor Will Be With You Shortly by Weird Wilkins" class="motion-reduce" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="630" >

The Doctor Will Be With You Shortly by Weird Wi...

The gas has done its job. You lie there barely awake, the pain in your teeth has numbed, from agony to a dull ache. You lie there on the chair,...

The Doctor Will Be With You Shortly by Weird Wi...

The gas has done its job. You lie there barely awake, the pain in your teeth has numbed, from agony to a dull ache. You lie there on the chair,...

The Surgeon by Tracy Davidson sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 550px, (min-width: 750px) calc((100vw - 130px) / 2), calc((100vw - 50px) / 2)" alt="The Surgeon by Tracy Davidson" class="motion-reduce" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="630" >

The Surgeon by Tracy Davidson

For someone who spends so much time wielding scalpels, a sudden attack of haemophobia is somewhat inconvenient. My therapist shares my fear. She talks me through her coping mechanisms. She’s...

The Surgeon by Tracy Davidson

For someone who spends so much time wielding scalpels, a sudden attack of haemophobia is somewhat inconvenient. My therapist shares my fear. She talks me through her coping mechanisms. She’s...

The Same As You by Tim Law sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 550px, (min-width: 750px) calc((100vw - 130px) / 2), calc((100vw - 50px) / 2)" alt="The Same As You by Tim Law" class="motion-reduce" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="630" >

The Same As You by Tim Law

I watched on, helpless, as you faded away. All of those crosswords, logic puzzles, the way you challenged and stretched your mind. Nothing seemed to help, nothing stopped or even...

The Same As You by Tim Law

I watched on, helpless, as you faded away. All of those crosswords, logic puzzles, the way you challenged and stretched your mind. Nothing seemed to help, nothing stopped or even...

Hydro-Phobia by Anastasia Jill sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 550px, (min-width: 750px) calc((100vw - 130px) / 2), calc((100vw - 50px) / 2)" alt="Hydro-Phobia by Anastasia Jill" class="motion-reduce" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="630" >

Hydro-Phobia by Anastasia Jill

Hydro—   Foam, like venom bile. Jaws, square and concrete, hit the floor. Throat open, wide open and dry as a desert. Shaking, shaking, shaking—Please! I’m so scared. My mouth...

Hydro-Phobia by Anastasia Jill

Hydro—   Foam, like venom bile. Jaws, square and concrete, hit the floor. Throat open, wide open and dry as a desert. Shaking, shaking, shaking—Please! I’m so scared. My mouth...

Hellekin by P.S. Traum sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 550px, (min-width: 750px) calc((100vw - 130px) / 2), calc((100vw - 50px) / 2)" alt="Hellekin by P.S. Traum" class="motion-reduce" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="630" >

Hellekin by P.S. Traum

Pasty white corpse makeup, a cackling laugh... A clown at a party is funny, but when you encounter that same clown in a dark alley at night, waiting for you...

Hellekin by P.S. Traum

Pasty white corpse makeup, a cackling laugh... A clown at a party is funny, but when you encounter that same clown in a dark alley at night, waiting for you...

Feeling Sleepy by Liam Kerry sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 550px, (min-width: 750px) calc((100vw - 130px) / 2), calc((100vw - 50px) / 2)" alt="Feeling Sleepy by Liam Kerry" class="motion-reduce" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="630" >

Feeling Sleepy by Liam Kerry

Relax. Close your eyes. Breathe slowly. In. And out. In. And out. That’s it. Focus on the arm that I am holding up. When I release it, you will fall...

Feeling Sleepy by Liam Kerry

Relax. Close your eyes. Breathe slowly. In. And out. In. And out. That’s it. Focus on the arm that I am holding up. When I release it, you will fall...

Eye Spy by Bridget Holland sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 550px, (min-width: 750px) calc((100vw - 130px) / 2), calc((100vw - 50px) / 2)" alt="Eye Spy by Bridget Holland" class="motion-reduce" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="630" >

Eye Spy by Bridget Holland

Once, I loved the beach. Sand, sea, open sky. But the birds were watching me. I moved to the shops along the esplanade, hid in crowds and covered spaces. One...

Eye Spy by Bridget Holland

Once, I loved the beach. Sand, sea, open sky. But the birds were watching me. I moved to the shops along the esplanade, hid in crowds and covered spaces. One...

Der Spiegelgeist by Jonathan L. Tolstedt sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 550px, (min-width: 750px) calc((100vw - 130px) / 2), calc((100vw - 50px) / 2)" alt="Der Spiegelgeist by Jonathan L. Tolstedt" class="motion-reduce" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="630" >

Der Spiegelgeist by Jonathan L. Tolstedt

This ignorant schweinhund says I have eisoptrophobia. A fear of my own reflection. I’m not a handsome man, but he’ll not understand until he sees it. He’s suggested exposure therapy...

Der Spiegelgeist by Jonathan L. Tolstedt

This ignorant schweinhund says I have eisoptrophobia. A fear of my own reflection. I’m not a handsome man, but he’ll not understand until he sees it. He’s suggested exposure therapy...

The Rollercoaster by Andrew Kurtz sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 550px, (min-width: 750px) calc((100vw - 130px) / 2), calc((100vw - 50px) / 2)" alt="The Rollercoaster by Andrew Kurtz" class="motion-reduce" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="630" >

The Rollercoaster by Andrew Kurtz

“Come on, chicken, get on the rollercoaster!” Sam shouted to Frank. “I'll wait down here,” Frank responded, his knees feeling like jelly and heart pounding like a drum in his...

The Rollercoaster by Andrew Kurtz

“Come on, chicken, get on the rollercoaster!” Sam shouted to Frank. “I'll wait down here,” Frank responded, his knees feeling like jelly and heart pounding like a drum in his...