| Author
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Story
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Description
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| Neil Krolicki
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"Live This Down"
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After suffering humiliation and bullying, three high-school girls plan to commit suicide by following a Japanese guide on the internet.
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| Chris Lewis Carter
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"Charlie"
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A man comes into a veterinarian clinic late at night, holding a battered and tortured cat in his arms. The vet who helps him recognizes the animal, and in a moment of comeuppance confesses something horrible he did to a cat in his childhood.
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| Gayle Towell
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"Paper"
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A woman imagines a stick-figure on the edge of a toilet paper roll and relates the image to her personal life.
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| Tony Liebhard
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"Mating Calls"
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A college student retrieves a lost phone while studying for his vet school midterm.
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| Michael De Vito, Jr.
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"Melody"
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Dougie, a mentally disabled man who lives above his parents, obsesses about a young woman who works in a convenience store across the street.
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| Tyler Jones
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"F for Fake"
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Twice-divorced Earl, miserable from his failed writing career and job, pretends himself to be the famous, reclusive author Don Swanstrom.
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| Phil Jourdan
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"Mind and Soldier"
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A disabled Vietnam veteran with schizophrenia gives advice on crushes to his young neighbor.
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| Richard Lemmer
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"Ingredients"
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A supermarket employee plays "The Game," a dangerous, urban legend-like activity that ultimately renders her infertile.
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| Amanda Gowin
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"The Line Forms On the Right"
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A man follows a mysterious woman down an alleyway and they share drinks in a bar.
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| Matt Egan
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"A Vodka Kind of Girl"
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A teenager dies from congenital heart failure, aggravated by bulimia.
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| Fred Venturini
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"Gasoline"
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A disfigured man learns that the boy he had lied about setting him on fire hanged himself in his jail cell, and recalls what led up to the lie.
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| Brandon Tietz
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"Dietary"
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An obese ex-homecoming queen goes to extreme lengths to gain her figure back in time for her reunion.
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| Adam Skorupskas
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"Invisible Graffiti"
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A man encounters an overdosed, armless junkie in an abandoned building and takes her under his care.
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| Bryan Howie
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"Bike"
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A father gives his son's bicycle a new paint job. The ending is left ambiguous.
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| Brien Piechos
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"Heavier Petting"
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While at a strip club, the narrator tells a rather graphic urban legend about a teenage girl having drugged, drunken sex with a dog, and a meditation on bestiality and the nature of storytelling.
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| Jason M. Fylon
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"Engines, O-rings, and Astronauts"
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After enduring a ruthless beating, an outcast boy kills his teacher and several of his classmates. Told from the perspective of a survivor many years later.
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| Terence James Eeles
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"Lemming"
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On Halloween, a man tracks down his twin brother causing a rash of suicides across the world. The title comes from the legend of lemmings' ritual suicide.
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| Keith Bule
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"Routine"
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A depressed, insomniac pharmacist finishes his last night shift routine.
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| Gus Moreno
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"Survived"
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Following his grandfather's death, a young boy witnesses an electrician collapse in his grandmother's apartment due to heat stroke.
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| Daniel W. Broallt
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"Zombie Whorehouse"
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In a post-apocalyptic world, one journalist goes undercover to expose a string of underground "zombie" sex rings.
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