I. Security video footage:
The grainy, black and white footage shows a large playground with slides, swings, and other equipment...
Damien Angelica Walters is the author of The Dead Girls Club, Cry Your Way Home, Paper Tigers, and Sing Me Your Scars. Her short fiction has been nominated twice for a Bram Stoker Award, reprinted in Best Horror of the Year, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, and The Year’s Best Weird Fiction, and published in various anthologies and magazines, including the Shirley Jackson Award Finalists Autumn Cthulhu and The Madness of Dr. Caligari, World Fantasy Award Finalist Cassilda's Song, Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, and Black Static. She lives in Maryland with her husband and a rescued pit bull named Ripley. Find her on Instagram @dawalters or at http://damienangelicawalters.com.
“Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys: The Elephant’s Tale”—Published in Apex...
Episode #20: Requiem, for Solo Cello
06 Jun, 2020
"Requiem, for Solo Cello"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 69, February...
The Whipping Girls
26 Jul, 2018
Erika’s fingers tense on the steering wheel as she approaches the Kansas-Colorado state line. Endless fields of wheat, waiting...
Fear of Failure 2.0
05 Jan, 2018
I’ve been here before, sitting in front of an Excel spreadsheet filled with story titles and word counts, trying to decide what...
Paskutinis Iliuzija (The Last Illusion)
24 Aug, 2016
Andrius Kavalauskas, the last magician of Lithuania, closed the door and rested his head against the wood as the nurse’s footsteps...
Paper Tigers (Excerpt)
27 Jan, 2016
CHAPTER 1
The soles of Alison’s shoes marked each limping step away from her front door. She tugged the scarf on her head, pulling...
Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys: The Elephant’s Tale
04 Aug, 2015
Ladies and Gentlemen, Children of All Ages…
Every circus has a story, and every story has its secrets...
Sing Me Your Scars
03 Mar, 2015
This is not my body.
Yes, there are the expected parts—arms, legs, hips, breasts—each in its proper place and of the proper shape...