“Dr. AC’s Hidden House of Horrors”
by Darren Callahan
To every North American horror fan’s excitement, book editor, actor, and HorrorHound columnist Aaron Christensen (also known as “Dr. AC) has just released a collection of essays about obscure, treasured, and forgotten horror movies. Featuring 101 authors,...
The Ravine
by Nona Caspers
The Ravine
A hunting she will go,
A hunting she will go,
Hi, ho, the derry oh, a hunting she will go.
1.
I woke up at six o’clock on Saturday and decided I would hunt. I pulled on my jeans, T-shirt and old...
New video for Action Fiction! story "A Concise History of the Heavens"
We've got a new video for Benjamin Wachs' story "A Concise History of the Heavens," originally performed at Action Fiction! by Andie Grace.
Check out this video for "A Guide to Bars and Nightlife in the Sacred City!"
Omnibucket co-producer Benjamin Wachs' first collection of short stories has just been released: "A Guide to Bars and Nightlife in the Sacred City"!
It's available here, and the...
Aversions
by Maxine Chernoff
An aversion to Viennese music, the type she heard in her youth at the great amusement park by the dying green river, where all the swallows nested nearly on top of one another under a bridge and scared her with their dense blackness. Why it was the pipes of the organ...
Nearly Pregnant
by Simon Rogghe
I was nearly pregnant – with child by a hair’s breadth. I remember it vividly. It nearly happened in Paris. Had my boyfriend been French, he would have used the past subjunctive to describe the event: I could have been pregnant. He couldn’t. He was Spanish. I suppose he...
Lorraine
by Marco Lean
Lorraine arrived at the beach. She had come to the end of Denman Street. In the distance, the violence of the dying sun had left the waterline covered in purple scratches. The soil and grass around her had the earthy smell of beets. Lorraine passed the first Izakayan...
Sign Here
by Megan Enright
It was nearing dusk last Tuesday when I signed the lease on my new apartment.
Light still streamed through the generous sized Victorian windows of the commercial unit, advertised as a live/work apartment, poised above the infamous Grant Avenue of North Beach. The...
Check out this review of Action Fiction!
We started "Action Fiction!", in conjunction with The San Francisco Writers Community and Fiction365, a year-and-a-half ago, and candidly no one is more surprised than us that it's turned out to be this good.
We know it would be good - don't get us wrong - but...
What "Big Data" doesn't understand about literature could fill a book that it would never read
by Benjamin Wachs
Hey, remember how the internet was going to end racism? How the digital revolution would close the gaps between the haves and have-nots? Maybe eliminate money altogether?
Remember that?
It’s cute when little children assign their toys superpowers. It’s...