Mon, 1 March 2021
He’d crept from his bedroom and padded down the hall. |
Wed, 17 February 2021
It was a madman at the helm. |
Mon, 8 February 2021
The anti-government paranoia that grew throughout the 1990s was a boon to Mukki’s research. |
Thu, 28 January 2021
Hari couldn’t quite say why, but he felt a little stupid. |
Mon, 18 January 2021
Mukki thought he’d fallen asleep in his new house. |
Thu, 7 January 2021
Despite at least an hour of steady work, they’d made it only as far as the husk of Calvin’s car. |
Thu, 24 December 2020
Tonight, as is tradition, some holiday fear. |
Mon, 14 December 2020
William’s waking moments held a steady rhythm for many months. |
Tue, 8 December 2020
Gord had fallen asleep at some point. This troubled him. |
Wed, 25 November 2020
The town was burning, and somewhere within one of the sets of blazing walls a phone had begun to ring. |
Fri, 13 November 2020
Myriam had little patience left for Calvin’s nonsense, and yet his litany of complaints seemed to grow with every step. |
Fri, 30 October 2020
Tonight, as is tradition, a ghost story. |
Mon, 26 October 2020
Despite the distance he’d travelled, despite the years he’d waited, Mukki found himself fighting the urge to sprint from the shore. |
Fri, 16 October 2020
He’d been reduced to riffling through his memory for nonsense trivia and unlikely anxieties to keep himself awake. |
Tue, 22 September 2020
Mukki stood on Pebble Beach and took the weight of the flat rock in his hand. |
Tue, 15 September 2020
There wasn’t much of a world for quite a while. Panic had gotten him - panic had gnawed at his calf muscle, panic had laid him out. |
Fri, 4 September 2020
It was a long bus ride, and the lumbering gray beast stopped regularly |
Sun, 30 August 2020
The thin silver line of fear that ran along her spine, mimicking the chill of the cold wall, would help keep her awake. |
Sat, 22 August 2020
He had proven to himself that Baker was involved in a cover up, but this was a fact William had already known. It had only been he, the escapee, who’d held any lingering doubt. |
Tue, 18 August 2020
Hari cradled his head in his hands, attempting to block out the smokey sweet smell of freshly-charred human flesh |
Sun, 9 August 2020
As soon as he stepped from the 747’s controlled climate the dry Arizona air began to bake Mukki’s lungs. |
Mon, 3 August 2020
There was no hiss, nor rattle of warning, one moment they were speaking and the next the tent to Gord’s left seemed to explode into motion. |
Sun, 26 July 2020
The conversation on the night of their unexpected meeting was so celebratory that Mukki was forced to repeat most of the details the following day when they met for dinner. |
Sat, 18 July 2020
Seeing the shredded seats, deployed airbag, and tornado trail of upholstery and glass had brought a reality to his friend’s words. |
Fri, 10 July 2020
Without physical records to pin them in place, the events, like the town of Jackfish itself, became a receding memory only touched upon by sentimentalists and conspiracy theorists. |
Sat, 4 July 2020
You wouldn’t be so eager to sleep if you’d seen the damned thing. |
Mon, 22 June 2020
He had argued to no end, then been dragged into the boat by a hand so firm it left four brown bars across his forearm. |
Sat, 13 June 2020
While shuffling along the tracks, Gord mentally repeated his arguments against regretting this decision. |
Fri, 5 June 2020
William came awake, the second morning after the trauma, to a silent house. |
Fri, 29 May 2020
Myriam watched the bobbing light break up among the branches, then disappear, as Gord and Cal crept along the rails that led to the car.
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Fri, 22 May 2020
As they spoke the Colonel would occasionally raise his hand, then a building would suddenly be ablaze. |
Sun, 17 May 2020
Silence, deep and unyielding, descended. No bullfrogs sounded and no night birds called - even the chirp and buzz of the insects had fallen into a hushed lull. |
Fri, 8 May 2020
William had clawed his way through the brush and darkness until he could move no more, then he’d discovered that weeping silently was an exhausting business. |
Fri, 1 May 2020
While Gord would have claimed it was “an echo of the past carried by the tail of our nation’s avatar,” or some crap, Hari simply hoped he wasn’t about to require a number of rabies shots. |
Sat, 25 April 2020
If he’d awoken in the middle of the night and stumbled across the scene it might have seemed peaceful, but there was something unnerving at the lack of lit windows beyond the railroad tracks. The glass panes now seemed to stare him down, sockets without eyes. |
Sat, 25 April 2020
The rum was doing an excellent job of warming her against the chill of the lake breeze. Somewhere in the darkness, down where the lapping water worked at an embankment overrun with grasses, a bullfrog began to croon a long and low note. |
Fri, 10 April 2020
“Do you think Dad will be okay?” Ester had asked, and Monica and Haaken were quick to assure her he’d be fine, then they’d offered up a blackboard game of Tic-Tac-Toe to keep her mind from the blood they’d all witnessed on the sand. |
Sat, 4 April 2020
This is how I heard the story, and I’ve got good reason to believe it – which I’ll get to. It starts with five kids running across town – this town, Jackfish – or, at least, the town that once stood here. |
Fri, 27 March 2020
You can run through Jackfish in under ten minutes if you can keep your legs pumping, and your heart from exploding in the humid August heat. |
Fri, 27 March 2020
A word from Jurd |
Thu, 5 March 2020
Tonight, a future-facing tale of stardom and obsession. |
Sat, 15 February 2020
Tonight, Bunny, the Coffin,finds herself a horse being led to water. |
Tue, 11 February 2020
Tonight, Bunny, the Coffin, finds herself slowly surrounded by a party of mystical vagabonds. |
Sun, 2 February 2020
Tonight, Bunny, the Coffin, finds herself in the same old haunts as the world outside her bar’s window rapidly changes. |
Sun, 26 January 2020
Tonight, Mulligan Smith, private investigator, and Milo “Head” Smith, member of the Irregular Division and reformed thief, find themselves burning different ends of the same candle. |
Sun, 8 December 2019
Tonight, the tale of Doctor Sofronio Momus, a man who knows not what the day after tomorrow might bring, but who, through science, intends to find out. |
Sun, 24 November 2019
Tonight our spacefarer and his clawed companion find themselves at the end of an unexpected journey. |
Sat, 9 November 2019
Tonight, someone’s uttering threats, and Mulligan swears it isn’t him. |
Mon, 21 October 2019
Tonight, we briefly diverge from our current ongoing investigation to tell you a well-worn urban legend from the streets of Capital City. |
Wed, 2 October 2019
Tonight, Mulligan Smith, private investigator, chases a missing notebook into a suburban wasteland. |
Mon, 23 September 2019
Tonight, Mulligan Smith, private investigator, finds himself looking into a novel mystery centered around a missing notebook. |
Tue, 10 September 2019
Tonight, an insight into the modern life of monsters. |
Mon, 26 August 2019
Tonight, a brief tale from a distant war. |
Tue, 6 August 2019
Tonight, your girl, Harper Tierny, learns many secrets - but be forewarned: Please keep both earbuds in until the ride has come to a complete stop. |
Mon, 17 June 2019
Tonight, your girl, Harper Tierney, gets a sharp lesson in the realities of life in The Irregular Division. |
Mon, 10 June 2019
Tonight, we meet some new friends, encounter some old friends, and find ourselves dug in, at last, with the full complement of The Irregular Division. |
Wed, 15 May 2019
Tonight, a brand new story about the same old story. |
Tue, 23 April 2019
Tonight, a conversation with a space goat. |
Tue, 9 April 2019
Tonight, we take a brief journey into one possible future. |
Mon, 25 March 2019
Tonight, we hear another story, this time from the lips of the too-grateful dead. |
Sat, 2 March 2019
Tonight, Mulligan Smith, private investigator, seeks a dead man in a haunted world. |
Tue, 19 February 2019
Tonight, we begin a tale of things stolen, and things better left buried. |
Sat, 9 February 2019
Tonight, a brief tale of another life, though one perhaps not entirely unfamiliar. |
Wed, 6 February 2019
Tonight, we visit briefly with an old friend along a northern lakeside. |
Mon, 28 January 2019
Tonight, we return to the Hundred Kingdoms, the realm of Sofia Esperon, as the Queen must deal with a number of climbers. |
Tue, 15 January 2019
Tonight, we return to a simpler time, when private investigator Mulligan Smith’s greatest concern was the possibility of a serial killer. |
Tue, 11 December 2018
Merry Kar’Mas from all of us at Skinner Co. Here’s a gift just for you.
Not for small children though. Just for you. |
Sat, 1 December 2018
Tonight, Mulligan Smith discovers the truth about the death of a hero of two plagues. |
Tue, 27 November 2018
Tonight, Mulligan Smith, private investigator, meets an unlikely source of information regarding his missing client. |
Sun, 11 November 2018
Tonight, Mulligan Smith takes on a new client. |
Sat, 3 November 2018
Tonight, we hear the last of it from Harm Carter. |
Tue, 9 October 2018
Tonight, Harm Carter finds himself not quite alone in a museum of his own making. |
Wed, 26 September 2018
Tonight, Harm Carter discovers you can never go home again - especially when that home is surrounded by homicidal maniacs. |
Fri, 14 September 2018
Tonight, Harm Carter completes a sudden descent from a rooftop. |
Fri, 24 August 2018
Tonight, Harm Carter makes a mistake. |
Fri, 10 August 2018
Tonight, Harm Carter and his companion, Hamlet the Great Dane, must suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune - though mostly the arrows - in their hunt for familiar turf. |
Fri, 3 August 2018
Tonight, Harm Carter searches for a moment of peace among the traps of the homicidally insane and the rationally terrified. |
Fri, 27 July 2018
Tonight, Harm Carter finds an unlikely guide through the deadly traps of the homicidally insane. |
Fri, 20 July 2018
Tonight, Harm Carter must navigate a world brimming with paranoid killers while contending with an empty stomach. |
Sat, 14 July 2018
Join the Chrononaut's as they Shatner double-chop their way through ALEXAAANDER! |
Fri, 6 July 2018
Tonight, Harm Carter finds Minnie. |
Fri, 29 June 2018
Tonight, Harm Carter finds himself on the wrong end of a maniac’s shopping list. |
Fri, 22 June 2018
Tonight, Harm Carter, still in search of his daughter among the murderously infected, considers his own lingering debts. |
Wed, 13 June 2018
Where once we were promised a jetpack future, know now the grim truth of your pop culture demands. |
Sat, 2 June 2018
Tonight, Harm Carter and his new friend are dealt a bum hand, and must either gamble it all or cut and run. |
Fri, 18 May 2018
Tonight, Harm Carter and his new friend, Hamlet the Great Dane, come to a fork in the road as they journey across the paranoia-infected countryside. |
Fri, 11 May 2018
Tonight, Harm Carter and his new traveling companion, Hamlet the Great Dane, face the perils of the paranoia-inducing plague that is Hitchcock’s while learning the true price of movement in such murder-hungry lands. |
Fri, 27 April 2018
Tonight, Harm Carter makes a new acquaintance among the homicidal maniacs of the plague-infected countryside - but will they prove themselves to be friend or foe? |
Sat, 21 April 2018
Tonight, Harm Carter, while in search of his homicidal daughter, Rebecca, must reconsider his approach to moving through the deadly traps that litter the plague-infected countryside. |
Tue, 10 April 2018
Tonight, Harm Carter returns to a countryside inhabited by homicidal maniacs. |
Sun, 1 April 2018
Tonight, we present a quick history of occupation. |
Mon, 26 March 2018
Tonight, Harm Carter reflects on the forces that drove him back into the depths of the Murder Plague. |
Fri, 16 March 2018
Tonight, Jennifer corrects a long-standing error. |
Fri, 9 March 2018
Tonight, Ruby comes to the end of her road. |
Wed, 7 March 2018
Tonight, our heroine careens through the ranks of the dead in an attempt to escape their hungry jaws - but will she join them instead? |
Tue, 6 March 2018
Tonight, Ruby encounters a new familiar face, and the key to her escape from the shuffling dead |
Fri, 23 February 2018
Tonight, Ruby inches ever closer to home - but at what risk? |
Mon, 19 February 2018
Tonight, in a world where the only certainty is the gnashing of undead teeth, Ruby discovers something truly unexpected. |
Tue, 13 February 2018
Tonight, our zombie-slaying heroine begins her long walk out of the apocalypse. |
Sun, 28 January 2018
Tonight, Ruby must face up to vermin of a different sort. |