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    Bete Noire Issue #5
    Bete Noire Issue #5
    Bete Noire Issue #5
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    Bete Noire Issue #5

    By A. W. & Jennifer Gifford

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    Bete Noire issue #5 bringing you more of the best in dark fiction, poetry and art. In this issue we bring you: Philip Roberts, Marina Lee Sable, Elizabeth Creith, Nathan Wyckoff, Florence Grey, Grey Freeman, Thomas Stromsholt, Bruce Boston, Ash Scott-Lockyer, Anna Sykora, Mike Alexander, Guy Belleranti, Michael Roderick Fosburg and Tom Sawyer.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherA. W. & Jennifer Gifford
    Release dateJan 7, 2012
    ISBN9781452434254
    Bete Noire Issue #5
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    A. W. & Jennifer Gifford

    Many of A. W. Gifford’s story ideas come from the nightmares of his wife, Jennifer. Though she too is a writer of dark fiction, she will never write these stories herself, fearing that if she does, they will come true.He is the editor of the dark fiction magazine Bête Noire and his work has appeared in numerous magazines, webzines and anthologies.Though he grew up in the northern suburbs of Detroit, he now resides outside of Atlanta, Georgia with his wife, two dogs, Reagan and Riley, and a pride of cats.Jennifer Gifford has always had a fascination with the dark and humorous side of fiction. She hates creepy old dolls, spiders, and garden gnomes. The inspiration for her stories strikes her in the oddest of places from an elevator, walking in class, even in the shower. She loves to read, to cook, and loves horror movies. In turn, her nightmares are often the basis for her husband's stories, because she fears that writing her own nightmares will make them come true. Jennifer has been writing for almost two decades, and spends her time in three states: Georgia , Michigan , and panicked.

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      Bete Noire Issue #5 - A. W. & Jennifer Gifford

      Issue #5

      BÊTE NOIRE

      FEAR IS JUST A POINT OF VIEW

      Published by Dark Opus Press

      Editors:

      A. W. Gifford

      Jennifer L. Gifford

      

      P.O. Box 1013

      Gayson, Ga 30017

      www.betenoiremagazine.com

      Smashwords Edition

      This collection is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and scenarios are the products of the authors’ imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, places, or events is

      purely coincidental.

      Bete Noire Magazine copyright 2011 Charm Noir Omnimedia

      Cover art copyright 2011 A. W. Gifford

      All stories, poems, artwork and photos copyright 2011 of their respective

      creators

      Kids by Grey Freeman, first appeared in Electric Spec, November 2010

      Brain Food by Guy Belleranti, first appeared in Flash Tales Ezine, January 2000.

      All rights reserved. No portion of this publication can be reproduced by any means without the prior written permission from the authors of the work or Charm Noir Omnimedia

      This ebook is licensed for the personal use of the purchaser. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to another user. If you are reading this and are not the original purchaser, then you are in violation of this license.

      In This Issue

      Experimental Film - Philip Roberts

      Halloween on the Moor - Marina Lee Sable

      Rockhound - Elizabeth Creith

      Inky Hell - Nathan Wyckoff

      Soul’s Lament - Florence Grey

      Kids - Grey Freeman

      I Scry - Thomas Strømsholt

      Genetically Incorrect - Bruce Boston

      Not Good at Goodbyes - Ash Scott-Lockyer

      The Gift - Anna Sykora

      Bone Appétit - Mike Alexander

      Brain Food - Guy Belleranti

      You Are No Longer - Michael Roderick Fosburg

      The Log of the Superior Queen - Tom Sawyer

      Experimental Film

      by Philip Roberts

      Sherman only noticed the corpse because it looked out of place. Not however, because the person was dead.

      He stood at the mouth of a brick alley, a box full of cooling pizza in his right hand. Amid this clutter of graffiti, rotting food, rusted over trash cans, and the slick remains of last night’s rain, Sherman saw the designer clothing on the body of a teenage boy.

      Behind him, the traffic roared by, and beside him the neon sign to a tattoo parlor flashed off and on. Sherman knelt beside the boy to stare at the right side of his head where the ear had been torn off; an opening in the skull cracked wide, fluids running down the neck, soaking into the shirt.

      Finding the bums, some dead from exposure, some OD’ed, wasn’t uncommon, but a boy this high class? He pulled himself up and got out his phone. As he brought the phone to his ear, he glanced further down the alley where it ended in a door with its own neon sign, unlit.

      In the waning sunlight of late evening, he could make out the words Burnum’s Movies in the dark sign. Then someone at the police dispatch was asking if he needed help, and a door banged open behind him. A fat, bearded man from the tattoo parlor stared at Sherman, and shouted, Where the hell is my pizza?

      

      No one liked delivering to the five-block stretch between Schooner and Wilmont Street. Some claimed fear, both of the aged, tall buildings with their boarded windows and stained brick facades, and the gangs milling about aching for victims. Others hated wasting the time to deliver to an area well known for its lack of tips. When those rare orders did occur, Sherman almost always got them handed to him.

      They jokingly said it was because of his appearance. Unkempt hair, gangly body, disjointed teeth, and an old, rusted car as his source of transportation made him look a little more at home in the area than the others.

      Surrounded by dirty dishes, discarded breadsticks, and towering stacks of pizza boxes in back of the store Sherman told the others about what he’d found. What do you think happened to him? Jenny asked, a college student who fell into the Afraid of the Gangs category.

      Though he honestly believed his words, Sherman still smiled when he responded, Probably the gangs got to him.

      Seriously? They’d do that to a person? Tear off his ear?

      Sherman nodded, solemn. They do pretty messed up stuff. I just want to know why he was there.

      The theater, Daniel answered. All eyes turned to him, the

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