PETER MOLNAR
THE WORKS
Here you will find my short story offerings as well as any new works that come hot off the press. Links to digitally published stories are included for your convenience. Magazine subscription information for my in-print titles will also be included on this tab, provided the magazine has not gone the way of the blue-suede shoe. Information regarding works that are published or made available for free download will appear here. Check back frequently for updates or "like" this site on Facebook to be alerted whenever a new tale is published or added. Follow me on Twitter for updates, as well. There will be a great deal offered shortly because the way I see it, I don't sleep much...why should you?
"You Can't Come In"
City Slab: Urban Tales of the Grotesque, Issue 10
ISBN-0-74470-28617-2-04
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James Addison lives in the not-too distant future where drug cartels rule the world. The human population has been wiped out by a strange, horrifying plague known only as "The Goggle Disease", transmitted by human tears. Heroin is the only anecdote and it is rationed to only the lucky few by dealers and pushers, who now top this terrible New World Order. When James's daughter, Faye, contracts the disease, he must find a way to make the "score" and escape the streets before its predatory populace pulls him down into its abyss, or die trying.
Available only in City Slab Magazine's backlog
"Exactly Where It Was"
Necrology Shorts: Tales of Macabre and Horror
E-Publication
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Carly Lowry is quite literally burying himself alive. His daughter is worried that his hoarding habit will kill him and hires a television crew to document the cleaning out of his home. Carl is resistant to this intervention, to say the least, but not for the reasons that any of those on hand would or could expect. The truth is too horrifying and sometimes clutter is for the better in this bone-chilling short story from Necrology Shorts.
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"Adrift"
Hydrophobia: A Charity Anthology to Benefit Victims of Hurricane Harvey
Publisher: Stitched Smile Publications, 2017
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A young man awakens at the bottom of a lifeboat to find a strange, starved creature seated on the edge of the stern. The creature tells him he has been waiting for the man to wake up because his fare is due. "Until you pay me, we row no further." The young man has no memory at first of who he is or how he came to end up there, but as recall drips slowly back into his brainpan, he will wish he'd never come to know anything about himself. In the tradition of "The Twilight Zone", "Adrift" is a short story about evil and the question of whether or not it can ever be atoned for.
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