Black Treacle Magazine (Issue 4)

By A.P. Matlock

Black Treacle is a free magazine of Horror, Dark Fantasy, and Speculative fiction. Published on a monthly schedule, each issue includes 4-5 pieces of original short fiction.

We exist primarily to provide a forum for new writers to share their works and give preference to Canadian writers.

We publish both on the web and in popular ebook formats for easy reading on your chosen device.

August 2013, Issue 4

“Editor’s Notes” by A.P. Matlock
“The Devil’s Due” by Mike Rimar
“Nainaine of the Bayou” by Christopher Keelty
“Corn-fed Baby and Gravy” by Christian Riley

• Language: English
• Publisher: Black Treacle Publications
• Release date: Aug 6, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301258222

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BLACK TREACLE MAGAZINE

Issue #4

EDITED BY A.P. MATLOCK

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Copyrights and Acknowledgements

Editor’s Notes Copyright © 2013 by A.P. Matlock

The Devil’s Due Copyright © 2012 by Mike Rimar

Nainaine of the Bayou Copyright © 2013 by Christopher Keelty

Corn-fed Baby and Gravy Copyright © 2013 by Christian Riley

Cover Image

"Devil’s Contract" © 2006 Mario Anima, used under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License

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ISBN: 9781301258222

ISSN: 2291-241X

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Black Treacle Magazine is a free bimonthly Magazine dedicated to original short fiction in the Horror, Dark Fantasy, and Speculative fiction Genres. Released on the first or second Tuesday of each month

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editor’s Notes

A.P. Matlock

The Devil’s Due

Mike Rimar

Nainaine of the Bayou

Christopher Keelty

Corn-fed Baby and Gravy

Christian Riley

Editor’s Notes

A.P. Matlock

Hard to believe it is August already but time really does fly when you are having fun.

Our next issue is just around the corner, so I wanted to take a little time to talk about it.

October is a fine month. It might even be my favourite month. We’ve got Thanksgiving at the beginning (in Canada) and then Halloween at the end. Two festivals of gluttony. Oh, turkey! Oh, candy!

To celebrate, October’s issue will be Hallowed-themed. You can see the Black Treacle website for more details but for the month of October we will only be reading submissions that have strong association to Halloween.

Four down, two to go!

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A.P. Matlock is a Writer and the Editor of Black Treacle Magazine.

The Devil’s Due

Mike Rimar

Imp! My master’s voice rumbled with the comforting malice of a thousand forges. What the Heaven is this?

I leaned forward hoping to appear sufficiently inquisitive and peered at the Soul List. Created from the flayed skin of the eternally damned, the scroll unfurled across his obsidian desk. Smoke trailed from the blackened rim of the hole he’d made with his stiletto-like finger. Around the hole the remaining letters of a name faded from view.

Blinking once, I blinked again. Even by the bastardized physics of Hell, something like that should have been impossible. But my master demanded an answer and I made a great show of pinching my features in pensive repose, heeding the first lesson upon my servitude that ignorance was an undesirable virtue.

Ah, yes, I said. Well, I considered. Having not a clue why this had happened, I ventured an educated guess. Perhaps his situation has changed.

Perhaps? Spittle, searing hot as molten lava, peppered my exposed skin. "This man is supposed to be damned. This man, this Tomas Luis Grandon, is scheduled to arrive today,