OCTOBER, WHAT A MONTH. People in this world are so fascinated with their “holidays” that they set aside any remaining good sense and judgment they have to allow for fun and festivities. Fools. They make the tasks of the underworld disgustingly easy, even more so than in the days of the plague...
“My God, they’re everywhere!” From the creators of Stupefying Stories comes an exciting new anthology series: PUTREFYING STORIES! Sixty-four pages of pulse-pounding, shuffling, moaning, brain-munching zombie action! Issue #1 features...
I answered the door myself, as I always did when the shelter had visitors after dark. The gaunt man on the doorstep swept aside his cloak with one hand. “I am Nikolai,” he said. “I haff come to take Lucy home.” More than his emaciated physique, the power of his stare gave him away...
Digging into the vault—excuse me, crypt—this week we exhume SHOWCASE #8, released October 29, 2013, and featuring: • “Soft Magic” by Paul DesCombaz • “The All-Seeing Ring” by Kelda Crich • “The Calling Card” by Eric J. Guignard • “The Blue Ridge Wreath” by Georgia Ruth...
A mad scientist. An army of zombies. And three plucky kids who just might be able to save the world… The five-star reviewers say...
“…the best of the trilogy. KUDOS!” Years ago, Terran Scout David Rice crash-landed on the lost colony world of Aashla, where he rescued and fell in love with the beautiful Princess Callan. Pledging his life and sword to Callan and his adopted home world, David thought he’d never see another Terran again—until the night...
Members of the Tri-City Literary Writers Group sipped green tea and waited in the farmhouse’s spacious kitchen. They’d been together for five years and recently switched their meeting location from a coffee shop to this rural dairy farm, after reading a newspaper article. This was their third meeting and they were excited...
In June 2013 we launched SHOWCASE, as what was originally planned to be the free weekly webzine member of the Rampant Loon Press family. In its original form SHOWCASE ran for twelve issues...
In June 2013 we launched SHOWCASE, as what was originally planned to be the free weekly webzine member of the Rampant Loon Press family. In its original form SHOWCASE ran for twelve issues...
From Pop Access Control, Pioneering, Quastroc Settlement, Subsect 12. Gestay success: Viable obtained at Quastroc. StandBy.... Settlement proclaims viab. Celebrate, merriment. Continue.... Seven day-units prev, Quastroc. Noted. Succ extract from materna cavity. Out-settler broadcast infoco conf single viab dubbed “Samdie762.” Breath. Mid-W healer plus obstric attend. Aid deliver. Jubilant. Ten day-units post, viab respir reg. [&hellip...
Zantoinell reclined in her bath pool, enjoying total contentment. The hot salt water was divine, and so was being the Supreme One of the Zarkindell Realm...
“Somebody probably though they were funny, calling this dump a sea.”...
The open doorway to the Jade Tortoise Room loomed before me, and I wanted to be anywhere but here. A State Security checkpoint was set up immediately to the left of the doorway, so I presented my passport for the third time since registering at the hotel desk the previous evening...
It was the city’s tradition to put up a memorial wherever a hero died. It was an even bigger tradition to have the owner of the land pay for the memorial. But the biggest tradition was to talk about the traditions...
When Cassie stepped out of the general store, she saw a horseman galloping into town like he had the devil on his heels. “Now who do you suppose that is?” she asked. Jake stopped his rocking chair, but said nothing...
From the Dept. of Gratuitous Plugs: National Composer Night Out On Thursday, May 14, 2015, composers through-out the United States will be connected physically and virtually in a tapestry of events designed to raise awareness and foster a sense of community for the composers and others who create new music in their area...
“Listen. This is going to sound unbelievable, but it’s absolutely true. I’m speaking to you from the future.” “Don’t be daft.”...
On his fourth birthday, my son told me he wanted to leave. We must move on, he said, get away from this dustball while we still can. He was right, I knew, but he was talking about Firstfall, where for me, in spite of everything, love had bloomed...
Brad heaved what might be a truncated stainless steel water heater onto his table under the ancient live oaks. “Still peddling your miraculous apparatus?” Marquis said...
The box of copies of STUPEFYING STORIES 1.14 has at last arrived! (Memo to self: specify expedited shipping next time). It’s our first print edition in five years, and my God, the thing actually looks like a real book!...
For the first time, there is another. I have always been alone, but now she permeates the ages just as I do, existing at once in all times and outside of time. She washes implacably over the past and future like a tide, asserting herself at every place and every time in a blink...
Winter is almost over, and that means it’s time for STUPEFYING STORIES to emerge from hibernation with a terrific new lineup of stories! Featuring: 50 FOOT ROMANCE, by Eric J. Juneau CITY OF OPPORTUNITY, by Jānis Zelčāns THE ALIENS WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA, by Peter Wood THIRTY NINE, by Shedrick Pittman-Hassett RIGEL’S MISSING TAIL, by [&hellip...
DOCTOR DEAD: A Percy & Quincey Adventure by Tyler Tork San Francisco, 1904: Thirteen-year-old Percival Drew expected to spend the summer doing little more than tinkering with those new-fangled gasoline-powered motorcars. But that was before an insane scientist took an unhealthy interest in his cousin Quincey’s very rare blood type...
Rampant Loon Press is proud to announce: SCOUT’S OATH: A Planetary Romance, by Henry Vogel Book 2 in the Scout’s Honor Trilogy ISBN: 978-1-938834-43-1 (ebook) ISBN: 978-1-938834-44-8 (print edition,...