Black Fangs Motorcycle Club and Other Stories

Black Fangs Motorcycle Club and Other Stories is a collection of short stories and novellas, which are uniquely different from one another, yet blend together in order to embrace an underlining narrative centered around the vast spread of artificial intelligence, in particular, a program known as Leo.

In the epitaph These Lemons Are Rotten, the opening reads, Different seasons tick by like seconds before my eyes...the minute hand climbs closer to eleven...needle and thread, the holy receptacles of past voices, weave through one season to the next, prophesying, monopolizing, and sowing seeds of the darkest of all spells: my index finger closes in on His inevitable hour. These lines serve as a haunting prelude, which set the tone for a cataclysmic event that skillfully hangs over Other Stories like a dark cloud ready to burst open.

Dalivia Plaut kicks off the collection with Black Fangs Motorcycle Club, a movie-pitch about a heartbroken man named Charlemagne who, after recently losing his mamá to a strange illness, discovers a new bond with a group of bikers that transforms into something out of nightmares.

Next is P.B. Jacobi's crime-thriller The Rooster and The Serpent of the Midnight Sun, which follows a jaded detective during his desperate search to hunt down a serial killer who leaves behind an Easter egg at the scene of each crime.

In Ellis Kross's FYRWHL, a drunk driver finds himself being stalked in the middle of the night by a mysterious black van, which he believes may have something to do with the body making noises in his trunk.

These are a few Stories in an 8-part collection that not only delve into the macabre and explore the very things that go bump in the night, but also provoke a more chilling and pressing question about the rise of technology and whether it's meant to further advance humans and act as a beneficial tool or instead, leave a species to fight amongst itself in the dark.