041721c

 

mutant squash 

vines thrash about the test plot

Doc gasps for air

022821c

 

on the sea floor

giant crabs balance pressure inside and out

shear thru submersibles

tasty morsels within

010121b

 

one step

then another

into the whispering wood 

shadows move, you think

behind the farthest trees

they are phantoms, perhaps

that live only in your eyes

122320d

 
The Seals eventually did kill Godzilla (just how is top secret in case they have to do it again) but when he came back, it was another matter. He was a ghost, you know. Bullets wouldn't stop him.

120120b

 

I have belatedly realized that there is a portal for indie bookstores. This book of fantasy/horror flash fiction can be purchased that way:

https://bookshop.org/books/gods-and-monsters-9781519729446/9781519729446  

110120c

 

I blame pesticides in the groundwater. My neighbor's two pit bulls were no match for the 10-foot mutant shrews. We were saved in the nick by the mantis. But after what happened to Charlie, we dare not go outside. the food is running low. Jane wants to make a dash for the SUV. We can't wait for cold weather, she says. She didn't see how fast it moved when the Wilsons tried the same trick.
 

093020

 

Slugzilla

oozes toward downtown

slime level rises

082720

 

n 7-foot jaw

on a 40-foot croc

you: a one-bite snack

 shivers down your spine

in the Hall of Paleontology

082420c

 Sure, gelatinous cubes start small and cute, but they are not good pets. They don't even make good garbage disposals. They will eat you out of house and home and then they always turn on you. Why do you think people always stash them away in dungeons?

081420c

 

Dragged through the brush by a Bear Hog, the Jeep didn't last long. Nor did Colonel Blart.

053020

Some Disassembly Required

After Emily stopped the metal giant

With a clever logical trick

(you know the one:

“Everything I tell you is a lie...”,

can’t believe the robot fell for it)

It fell for real, right across the pond

and Ma Cille’s henhouse.

Emily went off to the capital,

Got a medal, lucrative speaking engagements,

Left her big sister, me,

To clean up the mess.

Turned out the Chinese government

Submitted the high bid.

After I restored the damage,

I could afford college;

Gonna major in cybernetics,

NOT Education,

As Auntie Belle suggested.

I had enough babysitting for a lifetime

With bratty Em.

051820c

One of these closets is occupied, but which? And how many rows of teeth are we talking about here?

050720D

this year
I’m Godzilla
hear me roar

042120b

those spheres
we've been digging from the cornfield
they're humongous pearls
just like you thought
but land oysters?
no way
that thing that ate Tommy
claws everywhere, and teeth
wasn't no shellfish
took every pearl we had
and it's headed this way


gas in the car?

032020b

This is like, in that vid about the 21st century, when the world suffered an onslaught of killer bats. Except, the vid had bats with fifty-wing spans and foot-long fangs. Way cooler.

021220b

"They" were giant snails, unstoppable in their adamantine shells, until they reached the Bonneville salt flats.

020520c

The worst of them disguised themselves as stepping stones. One did not see the teeth until they bit.

010220d

we called them shoggoths, naturally

giant slugs, oozing through

the ruins of this civilization

how could we know

some dead god lay sleeping

in the foundations of it all

121919d

There was a cellar beneath the first, and another below that. A trapdoor in the floor of the second subbasement led to a peculiar upside-down world. Therein Tim found monsters.Afterward, some of them climbed down into the lowest basement, and from there into the deserted house. They didn't remain there.

121219b

behind the paper
something kicks and squirms
birth is still hard