Dark Moments

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

Artistic Freedom by Suzanne Link

My wooden limbs twist around articulated joints. Runner: sprinting                 Archer: aiming                                 Ballerina: pirouetting The artist explores eloquent athletic poses. Sketch after sketch. I am proud to serve as...

Artistic Freedom by Suzanne Link

My wooden limbs twist around articulated joints. Runner: sprinting                 Archer: aiming                                 Ballerina: pirouetting The artist explores eloquent athletic poses. Sketch after sketch. I am proud to serve as...

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

Preyed Upon by Evan Baughfman

Days ago, the alien Hunter sent a distress call to his homeworld, but his plea remains unanswered. Crash landing in this terrain—a harrowing ordeal. The Amazon’s endless heat and humidity...

Preyed Upon by Evan Baughfman

Days ago, the alien Hunter sent a distress call to his homeworld, but his plea remains unanswered. Crash landing in this terrain—a harrowing ordeal. The Amazon’s endless heat and humidity...

Observations Made While Paralysed By A Bite From An Amazon Coral Snake by Jaime Gill sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 550px, (min-width: 750px) calc((100vw - 130px) / 2), calc((100vw - 50px) / 2)" alt="Observations Made While Paralysed By A Bite From An Amazon Coral Snake by Jaime Gill" class="motion-reduce" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="630" >

Observations Made While Paralysed By A Bite Fro...

You could scream again. Your lungs are still moving, after all. Just. But there are no humans nearby, only beasts. You’d scream anyway, if your limbs still worked and you...

Observations Made While Paralysed By A Bite Fro...

You could scream again. Your lungs are still moving, after all. Just. But there are no humans nearby, only beasts. You’d scream anyway, if your limbs still worked and you...

In Search of Monsters by Kristin Lennox sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 550px, (min-width: 750px) calc((100vw - 130px) / 2), calc((100vw - 50px) / 2)" alt="In Search of Monsters by Kristin Lennox" class="motion-reduce" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="630" >

In Search of Monsters by Kristin Lennox

No one believed it existed. After three seasons of “Cryptid Quest,” we could stretch strange noises and unexplained heat signatures into hour-long episodes; no actual creature required. But that stench—not...

In Search of Monsters by Kristin Lennox

No one believed it existed. After three seasons of “Cryptid Quest,” we could stretch strange noises and unexplained heat signatures into hour-long episodes; no actual creature required. But that stench—not...

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

Cabin Fever by Bridget Holland

Leanna hunkers in the torn-off tail of the plane, watching the afternoon downpour fill her plastic containers. She peels foil from one of the remaining meals. Larvae move. So hungry....

Cabin Fever by Bridget Holland

Leanna hunkers in the torn-off tail of the plane, watching the afternoon downpour fill her plastic containers. She peels foil from one of the remaining meals. Larvae move. So hungry....

Keoki's Unfortunate Business by C.A. Fulwell sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 550px, (min-width: 750px) calc((100vw - 130px) / 2), calc((100vw - 50px) / 2)" alt="Keoki's Unfortunate Business by C.A. Fulwell" class="motion-reduce" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="630" >

Keoki's Unfortunate Business by C.A. Fulwell

When Keoki lost the client in the jungle mist, he feared for his reputation, his business. That was hours ago, in daylight. Dog-tired, he hunted for the clumsy, rich, white...

Keoki's Unfortunate Business by C.A. Fulwell

When Keoki lost the client in the jungle mist, he feared for his reputation, his business. That was hours ago, in daylight. Dog-tired, he hunted for the clumsy, rich, white...

Alive in the Jungle by Jonathan Worlde sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 550px, (min-width: 750px) calc((100vw - 130px) / 2), calc((100vw - 50px) / 2)" alt="Alive in the Jungle by Jonathan Worlde" class="motion-reduce" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="630" >

Alive in the Jungle by Jonathan Worlde

Damp ferns conceal my position. The relentless beast draws nearer, but I’m not defeated that easily. I must survive for the sake of my unborn. This creature is gigantic, but...

Alive in the Jungle by Jonathan Worlde

Damp ferns conceal my position. The relentless beast draws nearer, but I’m not defeated that easily. I must survive for the sake of my unborn. This creature is gigantic, but...

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

Sleepless by Patrick Campbell

Months after returning, he still awoke at night sweat-drenched with lingering dreams of the terrors that had kept him awake in the Amazon. Spiders that lay eggs under your skin....

Sleepless by Patrick Campbell

Months after returning, he still awoke at night sweat-drenched with lingering dreams of the terrors that had kept him awake in the Amazon. Spiders that lay eggs under your skin....

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

Foraged by Amy Tasillo

We’re lost, but that’s beside the point. I don’t know how long we’ve been wandering—I remember nothing before we ate the fruit. We grabbed it by the handful and ate...

Foraged by Amy Tasillo

We’re lost, but that’s beside the point. I don’t know how long we’ve been wandering—I remember nothing before we ate the fruit. We grabbed it by the handful and ate...

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

Forbidden Fruit by Randall Andrews

From the look of it, the jungle Kai and I are gathering fruit in could be the Amazon back on Earth. But it's not. Not by twenty light years. “Have...

Forbidden Fruit by Randall Andrews

From the look of it, the jungle Kai and I are gathering fruit in could be the Amazon back on Earth. But it's not. Not by twenty light years. “Have...

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

Home by Amanda Bergloff

“You’re not my family!” “We are now, Zuri, and when you call us, we will always answer.” Zuri paced the floor, remembering their last words to him. Words that bound...

Home by Amanda Bergloff

“You’re not my family!” “We are now, Zuri, and when you call us, we will always answer.” Zuri paced the floor, remembering their last words to him. Words that bound...

Father’s Hungry by Ryan Van Ells sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 550px, (min-width: 750px) calc((100vw - 130px) / 2), calc((100vw - 50px) / 2)" alt="Father’s Hungry by Ryan Van Ells" class="motion-reduce" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="630" >

Father’s Hungry by Ryan Van Ells

Father hasn’t eaten. His rumble reverberates from the basement stairs, rattling the walls. Mother is little more than a skeleton, unable to feed him. Your sister trembles beside you. The...

Father’s Hungry by Ryan Van Ells

Father hasn’t eaten. His rumble reverberates from the basement stairs, rattling the walls. Mother is little more than a skeleton, unable to feed him. Your sister trembles beside you. The...