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Roadkill

Roadkill

by | Aug 13, 2024 | J, JB Polk, Short Story

Halfmoon Valley (population 1,234) is barely a speck surrounded by snow-capped mountains on the outer edges of Montana’s Kootenai National Forest. Although the summers in Halfmoon Valley are scorchingly hot, people recall winters when spit would freeze in midair...
The Collector

The Collector

by | Aug 22, 2022 | J, JB Polk, Short Story

The London sky is just getting streaked with dark as Mary Louise flicks a switch on her desk which makes the six 40-inch screens on the wall of her office fade to tiny pinpricks of light. She is done for the day. In fact, she is done for the long Bank Holiday weekend....
Regenerator

Regenerator

by | Nov 8, 2020 | J, JB Polk, Short Story

She was starving. Hunger, overwhelming and urgent, overpowered her in a matter of seconds. She could feel it writhing in her empty gut like a famished viper. She listened to the intense grumbling in her intestines, in her stomach, her liver. Her salivary glands,...