Dark Dossier, Issue 38

By Phillip Frey

A magazine devoted to stories of Ghosts, Aliens, Monsters, & Killers. Contributing authors: Phillip Frey, Don Stoll, Mason Yates, Ita Ekhaletruo, Ian Blackwell, Chris Aldridge

• Language: English
• Publisher: Phillip Frey
• Release date: Sep 4, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463724583

Phillip Frey

Phillip Frey grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, where he performed as a child actor at The Cleveland Playhouse. He then later moved to New York, where he performed with The New York Shakespeare Festival, followed by The Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center. With a change of interest Phillip wrote, directed, and edited 3 short films, all of which had international showings, including The New York Film Festival. With yet another change of interest he returned to Los Angeles to become a produced screenwriter. He is now devoted only to writing prose. The books "Dangerous Times" and "Hym and Hur" were his first published works of fiction. Phillip Frey has also had the privilege of having his short stories published in various literary journals.

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Table of Contents

DARK DOSSIER #38: THE MAGAZINE OF GHOSTS, ALIENS, MONSTERS, & KILLERS.

Style | Don Stoll

The Psycho Killer | Mason Yates

They Come | Ita Ekhaletruo

Toys Are Dangerous | Ian Blackwell

MR. BONES | Phillip Frey

Flight Of Pegasus | Based On A True Story | Chris Aldridge

DARK DOSSIER #38: THE MAGAZINE OF GHOSTS, ALIENS, MONSTERS, & KILLERS.

ISSUE 38 -  2019

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Style

Don Stoll

Heike Steil was oblivious

to the suggestion that we live during a busy time whose competing demands can leave us confused and even frenetic. Her mind worked deliberately in both intellectual and emotional applications. She was slow to learn but slow to forget, slow to anger but slow to forgive. 

She was also slow to grasp the inappropriateness to a public high school in central Kentucky of the request that her name be pronounced as it had been in Lower Saxony, her home. Despite her U.S. citizenship, conferred at birth when her father was studying in Pennsylvania for his Ph.D. in Animal Science, Heike had brought little understanding of American culture across the ocean that she’d crossed for the first time in twenty years to accept employment teaching German. She was unwilling to give up on either her unintelligible first name or her last name, which students ridiculed, spitting out the initial sh sound and accompanying a mocking Sieg Steil with the Nazi salute.   

But before Christmas vacation she told her students that next year she wanted them to call her Hailey Style—as in, ‘Hailey’s got style.’

She didn’t have style, but she would change that, too, on the recommendation of a fellow teacher.

"Try not dressing like you’re in the Luftwaffe, the woman had advised. Can you blame the kids for thinking of you as the Nazi teacher?" 

Next year Heike would be cool. 

HEIKE HAD BEEN SLOW to acknowledge her homesickness. But by the time her vacation began she was ready to savor everything about home, including the hogs on her father’s sprawling farm, funded by his success as a consultant to pork producers throughout Germany. She spent hours observing them and vowing that one day she would own a farm similarly stocked with these underappreciated beasts. 

After shopping for her new cool wardrobe in Lower Saxony’s capital, Hannover, Heike made the acquaintance of a handsome young man named Wolf. They enjoyed first a dinner of pickled-eel sandwiches, then a hotel room.

Wolf used the time Heike spent in the loo preparing for their intimacies to identify a surreptitious location for his cell phone. His video, posted online, was discovered by the students of her Kentucky school.

On the first school day of the new year, Heike learned