Alter-ego J. Damask writes about werewolves in Singapore. You can find them at http://awolfstale.wordpress.com and @jolantru on Twitter. Back to Issue 3, December 2017. To …

Everybody has a story. Moses blinks at her a moment. She’s maybe a hundred pounds soaking wet—more coat than girl. Blurry tattoos mark the fingers flicking her cigarette and a lime green …

I am the guardian of this halfway, a glorified security guard, and I’m here to tell you your story, how you came to be. Everyone has a story. They forget it over time, remembering only feelings but not places …

I’ve heard this story countless times from my uncle, the aunties, my mom—everyone except my amah, who speaks a language I’ve never managed to pick up. Thanks to the language barrier, the age …

My moccasins spark when they touch the boards, and my club and shield move exactly with my mind and the story I’m dancing. Then I feel something reach up from deep, deep inside and head out my …

If it had been anyone else with her in the canyon, she would have reframed the story entirely to brand herself the hero. How she weaponized her narcissism, her ego driving her to the top of the academy, …

[the calligraphic flourish of taletellers, signaling the start of a story] We teach something of this legend: our predecessors, the Old Demians, were a proud race that lived in the city before us.

There must be some step, some lost chapter of the story you are missing. Memory is not sequential; it’s messy, a knot of yarn woven into something larger and more varied than its fraying strands. The …

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To the fiction end of the equation, we have four stories all from authors new to Anathema: S. J. Fujimoto’s beautifully ethereal “A Patch of Night,” Jon Mayo’s tender ghost story “A House With a …