Here Be Monsters - Tongues and Teeth

Tongues and Teeth continues Here Be Monsters' mission to show off the weird and wonderful in short fiction. There are 13 stories in a variety of genres. If you are a fan of the strange and exciting, then we think you'll enjoy Tongues and Teeth.

The Ministry of Sacred Affairs - This story explores the connection between neighbours in an otherworldy community where goblins plague the suburbs and the government cracks down on the supernatural

Numbered - Two campers discover a strange device that lets them communicate with alien civilizations. It's a story about what would happen if regular people were forced to make humanity's most important decision

The Airlock Scene - On a historic landing on Mars, an astronaut plans what will be the first sentence uttered by a human on the planet. If only his teammates would stop pestering him about grammar.

Private Transit - A young woman in the city struggles to connect to people or even the real world after a traumatic incident. The dark tone is both undercut and supported by the dry irony of the character's voice.

Pickle's Story - The story of Ferdinand, a 17th Century scoundrel, and his loyal mule, Pickle. What begins as a simple heist spirals out of control due to Ferdinand's yarn-spinning.

Cobbled - A story done as a text-adventure game. Cobbled splits the narrative and uses the conventions of adventure games like Zork to tell a dark tale of murder in a seaside town.

Children of the Device - On a colony ship in deep space, a woman keeps a diary of the discovery that allows her to become one of the rare mothers on board.

Antennae - A young man investigates what appears to be an extraterrestrial event in a nearby field. He's left with a little understanding and something...odd.

If Not The Moon, Then The Exquisite Sun - A captivating story of two people discussing the imminent end of the world and whether it matters if you choose how you die.

Brain Freeze - In a strange future where humanity is relegated to a few floating cities, a poet has been recruited to help defuse a new kind of bomb that uses people's brains as the wiring.

Sterrennacht - The story of a "diver", someone who can enter a painting and experience the emotions captured by it. In this case, a young girl was kidnapped and left inside Van Gogh's masterpiece.

Ogre Baby - Told from an ogre's perspective, it explains why the "monsters" have to keep killing all the humans that they find.

Strings - A cyberpunk story of people that rent their bodies out while their minds are contained behind a "mesh". When a beautiful "puppet" dies, Nuru, her lover, is suspected. But even if his body did the crime, who was truly in control?