M Issue 4

By Big Pulp

The new issue of M, the horror and mystery magazine from Big Pulp! Now published three times a year! Each issue contains a mix of horror, macabre, crime & mystery fiction and poetry.

This issue features:
"Doing God’s Work" by Wayne Scheer
"Psychic Karma" by Shannon Schuren
"The Deep End" by Tim Deal
"Mike (My Second Roommate)" by Adam Armour
"A Burning Question" by Anna Sykora

• Language: English
• Publisher: Big Pulp
• Release date: Jan 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370266104

Big Pulp

Since 2008, Big Pulp has published the best in fantastic fiction from around the globe. We publish periodicals - including Big Pulp, Child of Words, M, and Thirst - and themed anthologies.

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M

Horror and Mystery

October 2016

Big Pulp Publications

Bill Olver, editor and publisher

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M Vol. 1, No. 4

October 2016

ISSN 2372-1049 (print)

ISSN 2372-1065 (electronic)

M is published thrice yearly in February, June, and October by Big Pulp Publications. 
All credited material is copyright by the author(s). All other material © 2016 Big Pulp Publications.

The stories and poems in this magazine are fictitious and any resemblance between the characters in them and any persons living or dead—without satirical intent—is purely coincidental.

Reproduction or use of any written or pictorial content without the permission of the editors or authors is strictly forbidden, with the exception of fair use for review purposes.

Cover photo: Photo from Archives des Missions Scientifiques et Littéraires, page 468

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The stories in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance between the characters in them and any persons living or dead – without satirical intent – is purely coincidental. Reproduction or use of any written or pictorial content without the permission of the publisher or authors is strictly forbidden, with the exception of fair use for review purposes. All stories are copyright the author or artist.

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Also by Bill Olver (editor)

Way Out West (2015)

Black Chaos II: More Tales of the Zombie (2015)

Black Chaos: Tales of the Zombie (2014)

The Kennedy Curse (2013)

APESHIT (2013)

Clones, Fairies & Monsters in the Closet (2013)

Periodicals

Big Pulp (all-genre quarterly)

Child of Words (SF&F)

M (Horror & Mystery)

Thirst (Passion & Romance)

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CONTENTS

Doing God’s Work by Wayne Scheer

Psychic Karma by Shannon Schuren

The Deep End by Tim Deal

Mike (My Second Roommate) by Adam Armour

A Burning Question by Anna Sykora

More Big Pulp Publications

Copyright notices

Wayne Scheer’s fiction has appeared numerous times in Big Pulp, most recently in our Spring 2013 and Summer 2012 issues, and in Thirst.

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DOING GOD'S WORK

Eli and Vernon Browbridge rolled The Fat Man’s body from the trunk of their 1987 Pontiac Grand Prix into the hole in the ground they had just dug.

Eli spoke first. I wonder if a dead fat guy smells worse’n a thin broad been roasting in a hot car trunk? He grabbed a dirty handkerchief from his back pocket, blew his nose and wiped the sweat from his face. Dirt and snot streaked his cheek.

You got me, Vernon replied. Ain’t never had no dead broad in my trunk before.

Eli put a dirty hand to his chin. Sure makes you think. One day you think you’re hot shit and the next day you smell like it.

Vernon nodded, but he paid little attention to his brother. He was enjoying the cool breeze drifting down from the North Georgia Mountains. As a child, he’d spend nights in his sleeping bag on the back porch falling asleep to the sound of chirping insects. Even with the skeeters, Vernon preferred nature to the room he shared with his brother, who would spend half the night asking him questions he had no idea how to answer.

Vern, Eli asked. How we gonna get The Fat Man into this little hole?

Vernon circled the overstuffed grave. He tried bending Fat Man’s legs, hoping the stiffening limbs might snap off. No luck.

"We gotta dig more.