Xanax Hamster
Xanax Hamster is your new home for horror flash fiction trunk stories: horror shorties that have been rejected a lot but just needed to find the right home. It turns out, Xanax Hamster is that home. In June and December 2024, we’re releasing two zines chock-full of brilliant and finally appreciated horror stories. Each issue features one story that’s the first pro-rate sale for an author.
Edited by Ende Mac and Michael W. Phillips Jr.
Xanax Hamster volume 1, issue 1: June 2024
This Is a Horror Zine. Seriously.
Cover art by Bonnie Hockin
“By the Hour” by D. Marmara (first pro-rate sale!)
“Unsung” by Tehnuka
“Your Best Self, Forever” by Sasha Brown
“Bubblegum Jack” by Timaeus Bloom
“Runa Lifts Her Veil” by Die Booth
“Permutations Black and Orange” by Amelia Gorman
“If These Floorboards Could Talk” by Ryan Cole
“Scrumpty Dumpty” by Phillip E. Dixon
Xanax Hamster volume 1, issue 2: December 2024
Legal for Distribution in Most States
Cover art by Jacky Kelsey
“Letter of Apology from Eldritch Appliances, LLC” by Daniel Loring Keating (first pro-rate sale!)
“Dead Quiet” by Camden Rose
“Shade” by Manda Benson
“The Ever-Running Bath” by Dannye Chase
“Gargoyle, My Love” by Caroline Hung
“Foreign Object” by Rob E. Boley
“All the Things We Can’t Outrun” by David Anaxagoras
“Test of Reforming Angels” by Brandon Case