A Slice of Modern Madness
When the man came up to the counter, the clerk had just started smelling himself. He was wearing the chain’s vest with the red and...
Polar Bear by A.F. Knott
A quiet morning shift at a corner store turns into a small apocalypse when a stranger with a long-barreled gun strolls in and decides to rewrite the day. With spare, freakish details the story ratchets dread into the ordinary until it snaps.