Nightmare Magazine 12: September 2013

Nightmare is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In Nightmare's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
This month, we have original fiction from C.S. McMullen ("The Nest") and Linda Nagata ("Halfway Home"), along with reprints by THE WALKING DEAD's Robert Kirkman ("Alone, Together") and legendary horror scribe Peter Straub ("A Short Guide to the City").
"The airliner’s safety brochure was like every other I’d seen: laminated and perfect, showing a large jet afloat in calm water, the emergency chutes deployed with inflatable rafts at their ends awaiting the arrival of passengers after a perfect water landing. “Those diagrams are terribly optimistic,” the woman in the seat beside me said, eyeing the brochure as our plane climbed away from Manila. She spoke masterful English, clipped with a Filipino accent. “Let’s hope we never have to test that theory.” I turned to her, intrigued. We were seated in the coach section, two women, strangers, traveling alone to Los Angeles. I had the window seat; she was on the aisle. I’d flown a lot, and I knew the social rules for the small talk that goes on between strangers forced to sit side-by-side for hourson end. A discussion of the false promises illustrated in the safety brochure did not come close to qualifying under those rules."