"The heads of a hundred horses will be lodged in your cheek, you freak!" The witch was still trying to cast a spell on Slub Glub. "With my fourth eye I espy your feet festooned with flies!"
"Be careful, Lumprella, remember what happened last time," said a second witch, gesturing for the head hag Lumprella, the queen of the cackling crones, to stop her hoodoo-ing.
"What happened last time?" Slub Glub asked. The witches glanced at each other, but were mum on the subject. Then one of the hyenas ventured forth.
"They think their witchery has raised the spirits of the dead, and now phantoms are following them, seeking revenge for the disturbance of their rest," the hyena said
"I know how they ...
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Color Bind
By Michael C. Keith There is only one way of seeing them, and that is,seeing the whole of them.--John Ruskin Life forms from V12 in the NGC4203 galaxy 10.4 million light years from Earth ...
Slub Glub Chapter Nine: ‘Evil Words are Spoken’
Slub Glub came back to the coven of witches, who had now gathered around Willowmina and were trying to set fire to her with their torches, which had somehow been relit ...
Confluence: Five Landscapes
Images by David Goldberg [Proofreader's Note: In the urban interior, street art sprouts amid authoritarian architecture like weeds through cracks in concrete, parks and gardens grow wild around the artifacts and intent of ...
Slub Glub Chapter Eight: ‘Buttery Shudders’
"A pox on you!" cackled one of the witches. Her green nose was spotted with warts, and a pointed black hat covered her stringy grey hair. She and her coven of ...
Slub Glub Chapter Seven: ‘What Witches Ride’
Willowmina put one of her branches to her head, and with great exasperation, said, "Hyenas. Fine. If we can get them to stop laughing at you and calling you names, will ...
Tintamarre-ruckus-bedlam-pother-and-brawl, Behave!
By Bosley Gravel It all started when Eugenia looked out the window one Saturday morning and saw children peddle by on their bikes. "Sometimes," she said to Ruth, her partner of four decades, ...
Slub Glub Chapter Six: ‘Masked Marauders Amassed’
After a short trek, Slub Glub and Willowmina came to a marshy area alongside a muddy stream. "There's those blasted bandits," Willowmina spat, pointing one branch towards a hollow log, from which ...
Centaur in Brass 2041
By Jeremy Adam Smith When I was a kid, there were no canals, no vaporettos, no peacekeepers. That San Francisco seems exotically technicolor to me now, like one of those planets the ...
Slub Glub Chapter Five: ‘In Search of Wayward Raccoons’
"Thieves?" Slub Glub queried. "Furry thieves on four legs! That's who's making us cry," one of the willow trees moaned, and the other tress joined in with more piteous wailing. The youngest ...
