All Stories, Fantasy

How to not keep a Vampire out of Your House (in Eight Easy Steps) by Bob DeRosa

STEP 1 – When the undead thing scratches at your window and asks if it can come in, say no.

STEP 2 – When the thing says something that stirs your soul and awakens your senses, and when it promises that it doesn’t want to hurt you, it just wants to be with you, and when it asks to come in so you can have a really good talk about it, say no again.

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All Stories, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, General Fiction

Safe House by Alain Kerfs

She holds up her hand to the bathroom window, feels cold air piercing. Early morning, still dark, the children asleep. She unspools a strip of foam, one-handed. At her feet, a diagram displayed on her mobile phone. Using a screwdriver, she pries off ragged remnants of the original weather-stripping. When she stretches to reach the top rail, her ribs ache.

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