Damon Hubbs

Mother Horror

Mother horror wasn’t always horrible. 
It started when I fucked that boy.
The tree was a nude model taking up arms 
And we sludged oil on copper. 

I count her age spots like she counted my baby teeth,
Bootsole-sized rosettes liver hands and neck.
Poachers band below her eyes,
Species royalty wreathed in purple storms.

Wellbutrin to fix me well. 
Mother horror’s idea
After she red hands me 
Plucking feathers from her ostrich purse.

With notebook and Bic
The good doctor strums his dick. 
I say, father was eaten by blackbirds 
The size of gas pumps

Mother horror 
And I 
Left him to cool like an apple pie 
On the windowsill 

Our pains thinned 
In a solvent of flames.

Charles Rammelkamp

Just Doing My Job

“You have a hemorrhoid,” Geringer commented,
his finger probing my anus,
wiggling around like a burrowing worm.
It sounded like an accusation.

“I know,” I said. 
At least I’d suspected it.

“Otherwise, your prostate’s fine.”
He handed me a wad of tissues 
to mop up the lubricating jelly.
“Any travel plans for the summer?”

My annual urological exam.
I marveled at how mundane
he made it all sound.

Daniel de Culla

Secrets of Erection

That tyrants, genocidaires, and serial killers
Are always erect
Is a truth as big as a temple.
That gurus, friars, and priests
Have it elevated to the Lord
Is a reality that, in victory or submission
They place demons and sins.
This is how we read and see it
In dictators who rely on their cocks
To commit truly obscene actions
That cause so much harm around the globe:
Gaza, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan
Guantanamo, Ukraine, El Salvador.
If our ancestors
Made sacrifices to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
To the Sun and the Moon
To Satan, “the most beautiful bastard”
Today, our rulers
Sacrifice human beings, attack them, and kill them
As if they were masterless dogs
On the altar of hatred and repression.
Thanks to their erection
The capitalists, the traffickers of dreams
And arms factories
Rejoice seeing the earth
Is flooded with their joy and spermatozoa.
-Let the whole world sing joyfully, they exclaim:
A genocidal and a fascist dictator
Have been reborn; they can be heard by their clamor
And by the loud noise they make
By braying, no, by speaking
For they are illiterate beyond salvation.
From a tree came a monkey
From a monkey creation came to us humans.
Death will never be defeated
For death attracts death
When humanity shares in its victory or defeat.
Eternal novelty! Ha, ha, ha.
Death has not lost its sting.
From his fly as he stands up, erect
This gives man new life
To be conceived in those cunts
Bounty of defeated love
And glory among asses turned
Into an expiatory sacrifice
Of lustful slavery.
That peace reigns among men
Is a great lie
For death walks beside us
Joyfully waiting
For our last ejaculation in the banquet hall
Full of murdered guests
Or killed in the back
Who celebrate the tyrant, the genocidal
The serial killer
Always erect.

Simon Collinson

Tommy

My local hospital, the Countess of Monte Clueless infirmary is useless, they’re always messing things up. You go in with one thing and come out with something else, they mix up corpses, take out the wrong organs or they leave something inside your body like a watch, a phone or a Staph infection.

I had to go in there for surgery for bladder cancer. You lose all modesty in that procedure. But at least they didn’t have to cut me open as they went through another opening to reach my bladder.

I came out all sore and tender but the cancer was removed and this time I didn’t have a postop infection.

I was recovering well in the weeks that followed. I thought I was ok. That was until I heard a voice from below.

It was a deep and distinctive voice, not like my thin reedy voice at all. And it was coming from below. Oh no, they’ve not left a phone in my belly again? That was my first thought.

But it was worse than that, those idiots at the hospital had only left me with a talking testicle, the left one.

My left testicle was telling me to get a shower. Told me I reeked.

I checked for lumps but this time I was ok, it was just I had a testicle that was talking to me. And it wouldn’t shut up.

It told me its name was Tommy, Tommy the talking testicle. There were problems at first.

It was difficult going to the toilet when you had this testicle jabbering away non stop and singing too, and worse whenever I was talking to someone it kept butting in. How rude.

I was all for having it removed, but then I found Tommy the testicle started coming in handy.

You see I’ve always been shy and awkward around females. I go all silent and quiet when I see someone I fancy. Tommy could see I was stumbling so it was giving me advice on how to date women. You know what to wear, what spray to use, where to take them on dates and most importantly what to say.

You see Tommy the testicle had the gift of the gab when it came to members of the opposite sex and it had a lovely speaking voice that seemed to melt all my dates hearts. I left all the talking to Tommy on dates. Tommy could throw its voice so it didn’t come across too weird. 

I could just sit back, relax and let my left testicle do all the talking. This worked fine when I was out on a date, though my dates thought it odd when I spent a lot of time looking down at my pants.

Some people talk a lot of balls, but I found I was listening to mine and I have to admit Tommy was a smooth talking testicle.

Yes, I got a lot more dates, but I couldn’t keep them. The women left me when they heard my real voice which was more tinny than Tommy’s. It was becoming apparent that my talking testicle had more pizazz and personality than me.

It started grating on me. Did the women really like Tommy rather than me? Could I ever have a lasting relationship where there were effectively three of us involved, with me looking like the third bicycle wheel?

 My family all loved Tommy. My mother adored it. She would spend hours talking to Tommy when she came to visit. She’d just ignore me.  I felt like a spare part. Mother told Tommy that I was such a bore. It irritated me that family and friends would always be asking me, “How’s Tommy” and they would send Tommy birthday cards and presents, and not send me anything.

 My mother told me as she was leaving, “Why can’t you be more like Tommy?”

I was finding out that life is a pain and a tragedy when everybody prefers your talking left testicle to you.

Tommy was also irritating me. It was such a know it all, and it was also critical of my habits and appearance, and was always pulling me up every day.

I was starting to  loath and hate my talking testicle. People were now calling me “Tommy’s minder.”

Was that it? Was that to be my role in life, merely the receptacle for my overconfident testicle?

It was on my mind, the prospect of living in the shadow of my talkative testicle, until I couldn’t stand it any longer. Tommy would have to go, surgically of course.

I would live the rest of my life with one, silent, testicle.

So I booked myself a procedure at the local hospital.

The procedure was quick and painless, I awoke. And the doctor informed me the op was a complete success. I was overjoyed, I would be free of Tommy the talkative testicle forever.

Later that day I got home and sat down rather carefully, but then a voice boomed upwards from my pants, it was yelling at me, “Its Tommy here, You stupid berk, you’re stuck with me forever, you don’t have the balls to get rid of me, Tommy the talking testicle, and I’ve got lots to say…”

It’s that awful hospital’s fault. That bungling lot at the Countess of Monte Clueless infirmary had gone and taken away the wrong bollock. They really balled up this time, whipping away my well behaved right testicle and leaving me stuck with Tommy the talking Testicle forever.

James Benger

exhaustion

as if any of this was
planned
ordained

as if this was 
what she wanted all along

every day is tired
in a way she understands
hundred year old trees
can be tired

like the salt in the ocean
is tired

like how the last kiss
before the coffin closes
is tired

she walks when she must
which is far more 
than she’d like
because she’s tired

the streets seem perfunctory
there’s a bustle in the sky
in the passersby’s 
collective obnoxious breath

she can’t imagine what
could possibly be so important
as to deny the darkness
that they all must see

they must see
because it’s so obvious
it’s all around

it’s in everything
it’s of everything
and even it’s tired

tired in the way the sun
grows wary with each moon

keys fitting in locks
like warm deception
tumblers tumbling
granting admittance
like a benevolent hooded figure
before the gallows

she sacrifices herself
upon the altar of life
every day
and everything’s getting tired

David Owain Hughes

The Tongue Bandit

Pussy hunting. No, not hunting, snaring. Yes, snaring. Pussy snaring. That’s what I’m good at. Was, good at, he thought, lying in bed, his coffee machine beginning to percolate. But I couldn’t tell my career advisor that, now could I?! Or that I’m retired. Mind you, I’d step out of pussy snaring retirement for her… Nah, I don’t need to, no matter how sexy she is. What was her name again? Oh yeah, Miss Frost. Lauren? Yeah, Lauren Frost. 

He rolled over in bed, onto his back, his morning wood pulsating, pushing at the duvet. “Now look at what you’ve done, Lauren,” he said, smiling, pulling the covers back, revealing his lean, athletic body. 

“And what would you like me to do with that, Mr Asham?” he imagined her saying. “Or may I call you Daniel?”

“Daniel, please,” he said, wrapping his hand around his fat prick, giving it a few gentle strokes, his bell-end moist, tacky. “Fuck. Feels good.”

Yeah, you can’t beat the old-fashioned way, he thought, a chuckle escaping him, his mind filling with Lauren, sitting behind her desk at the job centre, her legs, clad in tights, on display to the thigh, her skirt rucked up; a hint of pink knickers showing. 

Fucking tease. I’m sure she knows what she’s doing, he continued to muse, rubbing his dick. She’s probably seen the posts about me all over social media, too. Yeah, so maybe I should have spoken to her about my sexploits, which got me fired from teaching. 

“And why was I canned? Because of that old, dried-up spinster twat in HR,” Daniel said between gritted teeth, removing his hand from off his knob and getting out of bed. “The hag was sore because I crushed her advances.”

“It’s such a shame you won’t use that magic tongue on my pussy, Daniel,” Vera said, cornering him outside the men’s room at work. “I can make things very uncomfortable for you around here.” 

“I’m a changed man.”

Pft, men like you never change. Come on, it can be our little secret,” she winked. 

A shiver racked his body, his cock wavered, as he envisioned the hairy, witch-like wart at the end of her nose. Almost enough to put me off my morning wank, let alone my coffee, he thought. Maybe it wasn’t so much as the rejection, but how I laughed in her face? Fuck sake, the woman stank worse than wet dog. And would it hurt her to wear a bra? Christ.

Daniel tried to push the thoughts of her aside, but couldn’t, her voice coming again. 

“Go ahead, laugh,” she said, her face taking on a stern, cloudy look. “But I know all about the posts online, regarding you. How you give women multiple orgasms with your tongue, making them pass out, sending them into spasms… Please, Daniel. Just once,” she tried again, putting a hand to his shoulder. 

“No!” he said, removing her chubby paw. 

“No need to attack me,” she said, storming off. 

Before he could retaliate, she’d gone, stomping off down the corridor, her huge, pendulous arse swinging wild like cow’s ears flapping in the wind. 

Didn’t take long, did it? he thought, before the hierarchy had their claws in me. The vultures circled, waiting to shred flesh with their finely manicured talons; their pristine grins dripping poison. Their acidic tongues ready to strike.

“We hate to do this to you Daniel,” the dean said, his generals at his heels, “because you’re a fantastic professor, but we can’t have such perversion and negativity around the university, so, we’re letting you go.”

Wankers, he thought, going to the percolator, his soft dick swaying, his hand balling into a fist, as he thought about Denton, his boss, turning his laptop around to show Daniel the Tongue Bandit posts Vera had brought to his attention. They showed photos of Daniel, along with huge rants from jilted lovers, labelling him the Tongue Bandit.  

At least the anonymous posters used handsome photos of me, he thought, sniggering, filling a mug with coffee.  

Daniel arched his back, raising his arms into the air, and yawned. His bones cracked and creaked as he rotated his head, working the sleep cramp and stiffness out of his neck. “Better,” he said, throwing the bedroom curtains open, allowing sunlight to pour in, drenching his nude form in a warm, basking embrace.

“Mmm,” he said, ruffling his hair, grabbing his mug of coffee, taking a mouthful before settling back down on his bed to think about Lauren. About her legs and tight blouse, and how the outline of her bra had revealed itself to him. His dick grew. 

The Tongue Bandit has retired, he thought, but I can never be a one woman man, so staying out of the fairer sexes way will be for the best. No more crushing hearts, fucking up already unstable ladies (even though the crazy ones are the best fuck), and leading them on. Time to concentrate on me.

When his cock was at its hardest, Daniel opened the drawer to his bedside cabinet and removed the Fleshlight 6000. It was the latest model on the market, unavailable to purchase in the UK. However, through dodgy black markets and online fences, he’d tracked one down. 

“If you’re looking to remove the ladies from your life, painstaking dates and/or internet porn, then this is the tool for you, sir,” the online sales rep pitched him, when purchasing the cock-pleaser. 

“Why’s it banned in the UK?” he asked. 

“Because it hasn’t been fully approved by the British health and safety board, but rest assured, it’ll be the best purchase of your life. Or, your money back!”

The salesperson hadn’t been wrong, either, Daniel thought, looking at the fleshlight, which had a realistic pussy at its base, complete with g-spot that could be licked, sucked and nibbled on. Hell, the thing even reacted to being fucked and stimulated, by releasing moans of pleasure through a tiny speaker and pussy juices from a slit.

Daniel turned the expensive device over in his hand, admiring its sleek black curves and array of multi-function buttons, from speed to massage settings. This thing could do it all, apart from make you coffee. 

“I think I’ve finally got a name for you, baby,” he smiled. “Lauren.” 

Daniel switched the device on, its soft hum making his prick twitch. Before slipping the hood of the device over his hard-on, easing into Laurean’s soft, pink fleshy bit, he put his mouth to the device’s g-spot and let his tongue work its witchcraft. His mind wondered, selecting certain head-swelling comments from the various posts about him online.

“He’ll make you fall in love with him through his sexpertise, before casting you aside for another,” one had read.

“Best fuck I’ve ever had. Typical love rat,” another said.

“I’ve never come so many times. Bastard,” a third had put.

A smile split Daniel’s face, as he licked and sucked at Lauren’s clit, making the fleshlight  moan and squirt, hitting a 10 plus on its pleasure meter. 

“The Tongue Bandit strikes again,” a fourth lady had posted 

“How apt, should that quote come to mind,” Daniel thought, smiling, as he eased the sex toy away from his mouth, pulling strings of pussy juice mixed with saliva from his lips. “Mm, you taste great this morning, Miss Frost,” he said, his cock bobbing. “I think he wants you…”

At that moment, his phone buzzed, but he ignored it. However, his mobile persisted, breaking his concentration. 

“Christ,” Daniel said, setting his toy to one side, picking his phone up and illuminating its screen. “A bloody email,” he uttered, about to replace his mobile, when he saw the mail had been sent by an L. Frost. “Is she psychic?” 

With a chuckle, he opened the message. 

What a time for her to send me a job alert, he thought. 

‘Hiya Daniel, I was wondering if I could see you this morning or later today, maybe a house call? I might have something of interest to you. If so, give me a call on the number below. It’s my private line. Lauren. X’ 

“Shit, she signed off with a kiss,” he said. “Must have been a mistake. A slip of the finger.”

Had it been anyone else, about anything, even an emergency at this moment in time, with his cock raging, he would have ignored it. But that kiss, even though he was convinced it was an error, got his fingers moving and dialling her number, as he slipped the fleshlight over his cock. 

I’ll probably nut at the sound of her voice, he thought. Shit. She wants a house visit! I didn’t think career advisors did that… 

She answered on the second ring. 

“Miss Frost?” he said. 

“Speaking.”

“Oh, hey, it’s Daniel. You asked me to call?” he said, trying to play it smooth, the tremble in his voice betraying him, as the vibrator lethargically massaged the tip of his prick. He bit his lip.

“I’m glad you’ve called,” she hesitated. “I trust you can be discreet?”

His guts dropped, his load almost shooting out of him. Jesus, the kiss may not have been a mistake after all. “Of course,” he said.

“I’ve seen the stories about you, the, erm—”

“The Tongue Bandit stuff?” he said, sniggering. 

“Yes,” she said, which was nothing more than a whisper, and Daniel could almost feel her blushes through the phone, her heat radiating, “which might be a barrier for you when it comes to interviews or references.”

“Why don’t you come over, as suggested, so we can discuss it face-to-face,” he said, smiling, easing the vibrator up and down his shaft. “What do you say?”

“I can come right now?” she said. “I just need to gather a few things first.”

Oh, you’ll be coming alright, he thought. “Yes,” he said. “I’ll text you my address.”

“Great,” she said. “Can’t wait.”

After hanging up, Daniel sent her his details and replaced his fleshlight to the drawer. Well, I did say I’d step out of retirement for her, he thought, smiling. And they say word of mouth’s dead? A fit of laughter escaped him. 

An hour later, there was a knock at his front door. Forgoing clothes, even underwear, Daniel rushed downstairs and opened up, which was the last thing he remembered, as something hard and heavy struck him in the face. His world turned black.

“Oh, good, you’re awake,” a woman said. 

“Wha—” Daniel said, blinking, failing to shake the fog from his vision. When he tried to move, he couldn’t, his wrists and ankles lashed to the bed. “The fuck?!”

 “Are these your trophies?” a woman asked.   

When he looked up, a pile of knickers in all shapes, styles, sizes and colours smacked him in the face, with most landing on his lap. 

“Dirty bastard,” she said. “Still, you shot me down, didn’t you! Not good enough? Young enough? Sexy enough?”

Vera!” Danial said. “What? How?” he stuttered, unable to form thoughts and sentences. 

She smiled. “Oh, how the tables have turned, eh?” she smiled. “You never were very good at attention to detail, were you?” 

The perplexed look splashed across his face told her that she needed to spell it out for him. “Too busy thinking about whose pussy you were going to entertain next, I suppose, to realise what was going on around you. Frost. Vera Frost. Lauren’s my sister,” she said, pulling her dress up, removing her knickers. One more pair for your collection, Danial. Your final pair, I dare say.”

Now it was her turn to laugh, as he fought against his restraints.

“She told me all about this handsome man at the job centre, who couldn’t keep his eyes off her, and when I heard your name. Well, I’m sure you’re smart enough to put the rest together yourself. Now, open wide,” Vera said, walking towards him, her thunder thighs chafing, shedding skin like a cheese grater. 

“God, no. Please,” he said, watching her climb onto the bed, her huge frame towering over him. 

“It’s been a long time since my kitty was fed, Daniel,” she said, lowering her hairy, dripping cunt onto his face, that had bits of toilet paper stuck in it. “Now, be a good boy, and use that epic appendage of yours, and you might just live to tell the tale,” Vera laughed, grinding her moistness against his mouth, his nose rubbing her clit. “God, that’s it,” she began to moan, arching her back, running her hands through her long, greasy and tangled hair. “Right there…Oooh, don’t stop.”

As she rode his face, her belly fat jiggling and crashing against him, she came, and came again, as he thrashed beneath her

Ugh…” he moaned. “I can’t breathe…” With a gasp, Daniel’s body started to spasm. 

“Yes, oh God, yes! Keep going,” Vera squealed. “Let’s see if you can get me there once more, Tongue Bandit, before you tap out for good, and I take that wagging organ of yours with me as my trophy,” she said, his death throes making her gush.

The Doom Hippies III: A Great Variety of Monsters

272 pages
Horror Sleaze Trash

Alex S. Johnson has been hailed as a “mad, genre-defying genius” (Terry M. West), “shocking, perverse…funny as hell” (Lucy Taylor), “the Baudelaire of our time” (John Shirley) and “without competition” (Lemmy Kilmister). The author of such cult classics as Jason X: Death Moon, written with Hugo Award-winner Pat Cadigan, Johnson’s work is collected at Harvard University’s Widener Library and is Recommended Reading from the Horror Writers Association. The Doom Hippies III: A Great Variety of Monsters collects his very latest dark satire tales, featuring such fan favorite characters as Reynaldo, the World’s Smolest Circus Bear and Kandy Fontaine, Slutty Detective. Find out why Bram Stoker Award-winner Brian Keene declared Johnson to be “one of our essential writers of Bizarro Fiction.” With a Foreword by Weird Fiction master Jeffrey Thomas. For Immature Adult Readers only.

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Damon Hubbs

Rapture

O Hannah 
you spell your name with two of everything. 
It’s the summer of the comet. 
I want to vibrate like an angel 
and you’re reading a book 
that isn’t a gift 
for anyone over thirty.  
Everything tends towards a conclusion that doesn’t occur. 
I have no defense for poesy. 
Does anyone know how to get to the Bop House? 
The whole shit is breaking down 
and my refrigerator isn’t ready for riot season.
John Maus has a new single called I Hate Antichrist. 
What do we talk about when we talk about luxury? 
You’re reading A Poem for Vipers when lifeguards
pull a dead swimmer 
from the water off Hampton Beach. 
The weather is beautiful.
I eat aspirin for dinner and drink Rolling Rock.
Karen Reed is framed like a Nantucket sunset. 
O Hannah 
we lost two of everything. 
On the rooftop 
of an apartment on Ashworth Ave 
we watch a cumshot 
dance on the tip 
of a 
telescope. 

Travis Flatt

My Wife Won’t Believe I Played in a “Real” Band

But, that’s because of the stories I’ve told her. Sleeping on the marble floor of an abandoned old Baltimore church where the crustie punks squatted. Attempting to sleep, anyway, with rats running over my feet. In West Philadelphia, I chased a pitbull who escaped from the bathroom where the house boys kept it locked up during the blasting and screaming; the dog made a break for the front door, squirted out between a drunk couple of kids who’d stopped to make out in the doorway, me happening to see all this on my way to the truck for beer. The dog ran for blocks before I managed to catch it and carry it back. The looks on peoples faces when I asked for help hauling this forty five pound dog with my arms covered in cigarette burns from some drunken, 2am contest between screamo bands a few nights before. The feel of pressing my forehead to the forehead of a boy in a Milwaukee basement, him shouting words to a song I wrote, us sharing my microphone while beer rained from the ceiling, everyone in their underwear.  Waking up at noon to coked up kids in Charleston insisting we record a live show for an apartment suddenly full of college students wanting to watch us play, and then driving to the next city with a cassette of our new “live album,” making flip phone calls on the drive, looking for someone to help record copies to sell. A show falls through in Chicago. We can’t find another venue and end up in some field with a gas generator to power our amps. Having to break into our truck with a coat hanger on a sidewalk in Manhattan. We averaged ten dollars a show. We lost money on “tours.” Spinning like a top during guitar solos, running my fingers through sweaty heads of hair, kissing strangers, them kissing me, all one big squeeze. Hugging straightedge skins—not Nazis, just big friendly guys who gave big friendly hugs. We ran the Nazi scene punks out of Knoxville. Most of them. Our last show in a trailer lit by Christmas lights, glass shards in the carpet, me running a 103 degree fever. I knew I’d never see most of those people again, of course, including a couple of the guys who filled in on guitar or drums. I don’t, with complete certainty, remember the name of a single venue we played. If it wasn’t for that cassette, which captures us playing way, way too fast, the drums banging too loud to hear the guitars half the time, it’d be like none of it happened. And all these cigarette burn scars on my arms.

Daniel de Culla

Divine Substance

Gumersinda and me, Sisebuto
Loved hiding in stables and corrals
To kiss and touch each other
When we played with other boys and girls
To “Three ships at sea, and three more are searching.”
Gumersinda, I dare say
Was already, at the age of seven, very clever.
She told me she sucked her little brother’s cock 
And that she saw, from time to time
Her parents having great, wonderful sex
Although her father would come out exhausted
And her mother would be overjoyed
For she would exclaim:
“Thank goodness I got rid of your father Aldovrando’s 
Excited panting like a giant animal against my ass.”
She would ask her mother Ambrosia:
-But, Mother, how do you do that? 
The mother would respond:
-My daughter, if I don’t let the male penetrate me
He’ll go whoring and he can fuck and beat me
I’ll get any kind of ass disease.
Besides, men, like males
They go to the mob with the females
Like donkeys with the she donkeys
Turned into demons who only seek
The food of our cunts.
Sometimes, Gumersinda and me, on this or that day
We would separate from the group of friends
And we would go to the shepherd’s hut
Which is located in the furthest part of the Eras de la Carraleja
And, there, she would lift up her dress and show me
Her honey-colored colt with a few hairs like a mussel
Instantly opening my fly
Taking out the little bird along with the eggs
Putting this one in the heaven of her palate.
I would lean on her and say:
-No, not Gumersinda.
Let’s play the same old game.
She answered me like she was sucking on a candy:
-Wait until I swallow the divine substance
That inspired so many women with beautiful love poems.
Then we played the same game we both played:
You put little pearls of love in my pussy
From those fishing beads you took from your father
And I’ll light a match, placed
In the little hole of your glans, without fear
So that it may illuminate my love and open for you
Like that flower of Eve that Adam fell in love with
In the Garden of Love
Which, without a doubt, so displeased our God
Just as we displease, now, Bacchus’s donkey, the shepherd
Who sends us to flight caused by the braying 
Of the two of them.
What sons of bitches!