Real Monsters
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Stories (27/0)
The Alien & the Anarchists
…5… …4… …3… [Ocean blue pupils dilating rapidly…] A thunderous crash of steel against rock! Man against nature! The freighter tipped to its side knocking both of us back in opposite directions. The short balding man in a black bandana hung on to the deck like he soon would from the highest gallows if I could rescue him! Then it happened…
By Real Monsters 2 years ago in Fiction
A Woman With a Past.
She floats. The bathwater in their large brass tub ran an increasingly-brilliant crimson as she slid the straight razor over the meridian of her delicate wrists hardened by the frontier journey from the plains of Missouri to these cacti-covered hills of the Arizona territory. Their home was built and beautifully appointed, based purely on gambling and extortion, both as town marshal and at the poker tables and frontier billiard halls.
By Real Monsters 2 years ago in Fiction
A Prohibition Ballad.
The following is based on a true story. …The eardrum-shattering dual reports of the .38 slugs resonate across the decades in this place. On stormy nights at the strike of 1:24 AM you can hear their echo — surrounded by a pungent, otherworldly scent of red roses in full bloom — through what is now The Darkhorse Tavern, a forgettable dive bar on a forgettable street in an even more forgettable Midwestern city.
By Real Monsters 2 years ago in Fiction
The Death of Sanity in the Abortion Debate
The American experiment is a beautifully chaotic thing. Opposing sides go at it and are supposed to hammer out a compromise in the process – getting to a position both can live with, a solution that hopefully combats whatever social problem is being debated.
By Real Monsters 3 years ago in Humans
Toledo's mad demons of eroticized racial hatred. (Parts 1-2)
Anthony and Nathaniel Cook represent the rarest of the rare in the annals of crime: sibling serial killers. Yet, what is most exceptional about this case is their motive… a motive that separates them from most “angel of death” type killers (see Michael Swango as an example), financial ones (see Dorothea Puente as the archetype), or even your more conventional type of lust murderers like Ted Bundy or – looking at the dual killers dynamic – Henry Lee Lucas and Otis Toole.
By Real Monsters 3 years ago in Criminal
Cold Case Involving the Confession Killer is ACTUALLY Closed
You may have seen Netflix’s special The Confession Killer. It revolved around the very real criminal history of drifter Otis Toole and his lover Henry Lee Lucas who acted like the pied piper or stronger personality in their twisted relationship.
By Real Monsters 3 years ago in Criminal
An Analysis: Salvador Dali’s “The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory”
To thoroughly understand the brilliance of Salvador Dalí and “The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory”, we must first briefly touch on the life of the artist himself, the thoughts or methods behind Surrealism, and develop an understanding of “The Persistence of Memory” (1931, oil on canvas, 9’5” x 1’1”), a work which really birthed “The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory” (1954, oil on canvas, 25.4 cm x 33 cm).
By Real Monsters 3 years ago in Psyche
Maine State Police Reexamine Bizarre Cold Case Disappearance
…he had to run like hell. The bad men can’t get him. He has to make it back to Suzanne. What the hell is happening? Branches, leaves, foliage pummeled his face and body. Yet kept a tight grip on a wad of cash. He didn’t know the denomination… but Suzanne knew his habit.
By Real Monsters 3 years ago in Criminal