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"Panoramic terror spread across the park and town beyond. A cell tower rose beside a quiet power substation near the public restrooms for the park. Faces, thousands of them, twisted in the breeze from not-catgut strings. Bones clacked together dry in toneless chimes." - Jay Wilburn "The Artist and The Muse"

"How long had he been running and how long could he sustain it? John wondered. The rain had let up after midnight, sometime after whatever-the-fuck-had-happened to Junior, but the ground was still wet for it, muddy, slippery. " - Eric J. Guignard "Midnight, Off Arkansas River Trail"

"Outside my window, I see a dark shadow slink behind the bushes across the road. I hold my breath, stepping slowly back from the window. It's unlikely that they could get me from that distance, but they appear to be evolving. Learning. Anything is possible, as I've discovered in the last six weeks." - M.J. Mars "Six Weeks"

"Henry tried to imagine what the sea must have looked like before the cataclysm. What it had looked like before the dark stain had risen from the ruptured seabed and spread along the coastline. Beneath those waves, sunken cities and islands lay, lost, and haunted by the decayed remains of once vibrant communities." - P.L. McMillan "The Whale Hunt"

"The branches had been stripped off and the base was blackened and scourched, as if sundered by lighting. Lashed to the tree and using its own muscles and sinew as bindings, was the corpse of an adult stag. The guts sat at the base of the tree, still steaming in the cold. One hoof twitched sporadically." - Richard Beauchamp "Black Tongue"

"A small canvas, I think. At first, I assumed I'd need a broad one to capture her immensity, but the more I consider it, the more a smaller canvas makes sense, as if it alone can't hold her girth and multitudinous limbs all squeezed tight, trying to fit." - Maggie Slater "Rhapsody in Flesh Minor"

"It's bones were marked, as if they wanted to get out of their flesh prison..." - J.C. Martinez "Sacs"

"Even as she watched they were already reassembling themselves, the mold pulling the pieces of their host back into some tragic mockery of form." - S.R. Miller "It's Inside"

"The night passed in pieces that were hard to assemble." - Amelia Gorman "Puzzled Pieces, Lock-in Places"

"She looked around at the bodies. Here, there were signs that the hospital staff has fought back. There were many bodies, hit some weren't human." - Michelle Tang "The Collectors"

"It was covered in little blobs of purple and green that squirmed all around its carcass like maggots. A chaos of hungry color against the sapphire placidly of the Gulf." -Scotty Milder