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Category: Horror & Dark Fiction

A collection of flash fiction horror and dark fantasy stories.

Miggi Island

February 8, 2017 Keith McLachlan Fantasy, Horror & Dark Fiction

The people of the island had simple lives. It was quiet and far away from civilisation. They were too remote even for the most adventurous trader, particularly since they had nothing to trade. War was foreign and the only politics were around the Raincoming Day when the men would bargain[…]

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Warriors of Yesteryear

January 31, 2017 Keith McLachlan Fantasy, Horror & Dark Fiction

“Back then you knew who your enemy was, but now… Now, it is different. How can I fight what I cannot see?” she begins venting the moment she sits down. We are sitting in a quiet corner of a coffee shop that I use for these sorts of interviews. I pull[…]

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The Ladies of Llewelyn Library

January 26, 2017 Keith McLachlan Horror & Dark Fiction

My research has taken me to some strange places, but none more so than the old colonial Llewelyn Library in Rhodesia. I boarded a ship from London that rounded the Cape and dropped me off in a tropical Durban. From there I caught a lift up to a dusty Johannesburg[…]

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Shadow of Nobbs Road

January 8, 2017 Keith McLachlan Horror & Dark Fiction

There was something off about that part of Nobbs Road. When I stood there in the day, it felt like home. Yes. Indeed, I had lived there for a number of years in a creaky old house with beautifully kept wooden floors and a large, ornate, green gate made of[…]

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The Forgotten Gods of Jozi

January 4, 2017 Keith McLachlan Fantasy, General Fiction, Horror & Dark Fiction
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The Corner Office

December 28, 2016 Keith McLachlan General Fiction, Horror & Dark Fiction

“Girls don’t get the corner office, Suz,” chuckled the boss, Jeff Jeoffery’s or JJ. It was her first week in the office. It was also the moment that her goal was given both a name and an obstruction. While all the other girls were worrying about boys, she had spent her breaks in[…]

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The Nature of Permanence

November 29, 2016 Keith McLachlan General Fiction, Horror & Dark Fiction

The Priest noticed that in one of the church’s back rows there was a strange man. He had not noticed the man there before, but he could well have slipped in at any time. People did that sometimes. Some people preferred doing that. Besides, it was a big church with[…]

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Little Lily White

November 21, 2016 Keith McLachlan Horror & Dark Fiction

In the woods, there is a small, overgrown path. This path leads to a small, overgrown clearing. In this small, overgrown clearing lies a weathered, moss-covered gravestone. There is no name chiselled onto it nor any flowers or gifts on the grave. Only after a few drinks will farmers in[…]

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Cold-Blooded Conclusions

November 15, 2016 Keith McLachlan Horror & Dark Fiction, Science Fiction

Human’s never really got off Earth, but they did manage to not destroy themselves for a good couple hundred years before civilisation collapsed. Another dark age would ensue. Ages would pass forgotten in the ruins that followed. Eventually, the world was unrecognisable. Nature and man having grown so close that[…]

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Old Roads

October 27, 2016 Keith McLachlan General Fiction, Horror & Dark Fiction

Down the bottom of our smoothly-tarred, modern road and at the quiet beach lying there, there is a rock that runs into the ocean. It is less of a single rock and more a series of tightly packed rocks running in a straight line, like an ancient road. The rocks[…]

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Hands in the Woods

October 24, 2016 Keith McLachlan Fantasy, Horror & Dark Fiction

“Don’t go down to the woods tonight, little girl,” said the grizzled, old man while sucking on his half-lit pipe, “The Sleepers there will be waking from their dark, ageless slumber to dance in the bloodless moonlight like wild dogs. They will drain you of your virgin blood, little girl,[…]

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The Mysterious Death of Hope

October 18, 2016 Keith McLachlan Fantasy, Horror & Dark Fiction

The old man who lived in the woods outside of the village had said that she was born with a curious fate. Her mother had said that is must be something good, and so she had called her “Hope”. The village folk had celebrated her birth briefly before returning to[…]

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Traveler: Conversation with an Old Time Traveler

September 23, 2016 Keith McLachlan General Fiction, Horror & Dark Fiction, Science Fiction

“You see, the trick with Time Travel is what I call ‘The Law of Neutrality‘ that means that you can change any timeline except your own,” the old man states as if I know what he is talking about, “You can change others’ timelines because you always have changed them,[…]

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When the Darkness Answered Back

September 10, 2016 Keith McLachlan Fantasy, Horror & Dark Fiction

He had always liked the occult. Even if he believed that a lot of it was rubbish, it still felt good to have knowledge that most other people did not have. It made him feel special like he was elite and set apart from his fellow man. He had never been[…]

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Where Teleporters Go Missing

September 7, 2016 Keith McLachlan General Fiction, Horror & Dark Fiction, Science Fiction

The warning on the box says safety cannot be “guaranteed”. You chuckle as you remember interviews with old, white-haired scientists telling the world this was a bad idea. There are always those that resist change, like when the aliens made contact. Many doomsayers and haters would howl about how the Wolves–named[…]

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The Dream Eater

September 1, 2016 Keith McLachlan General Fiction, Horror & Dark Fiction

He knew he was dreaming. The landscape felt both familiar and vague with no real details. He had no idea how he had gotten here or what he was doing. Somehow he was in his old classroom–the English classroom or was it the Math one?–and outside it was sunny with[…]

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The Mythology of More

August 12, 2016 Keith McLachlan Fantasy, General Fiction, Horror & Dark Fiction, Science Fiction

“In the beginning, Man was quite simple. Man liked the warmth and light of the day and he feared the cold and dark of the night. Thus, there was a friendly god of the day and an evil god of the night. Man had to eat and drink, thus there[…]

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Shadow, Flicker & Gloom

July 27, 2016 Keith McLachlan General Fiction, Horror & Dark Fiction

“We are Shadow, Flicker and Gloom,” you startle, as a soft, rasping whisper comes from a strangely dark corner of the room you are in. “We are Shadow, Flicker and Gloom,” whispers a second voice from the other side of the room. The electric light in the room flickers and[…]

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The Fishermen at the Edge of the World

July 9, 2016 Keith McLachlan Fantasy, Horror & Dark Fiction

There is a place in this world where the lonely souls go to. They are attracted to it. They need to be there. It is a solitary place. A dark place. A quiet place on the edge of world. It is calling them to it. In this mysterious place, the[…]

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The Shadowed Path Beside Starlight

July 6, 2016 Keith McLachlan Fantasy, General Fiction, Horror & Dark Fiction

“Come here child and let me show you another way?” I tentatively step forward and reach out for her hand. She looks young and beautiful, draped in strange clothes that shimmer. But I somehow know that she is old. I somehow know she that is ancient. “Yes, there is another[…]

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