SLUGGER is a horror magazine. Vol. 1 includes 10 original short stories that vary in range from folk, sci-fi, pre-apocalyptic noir, weird, supernatural, monsters, cosmic, thriller, and the body. - A Cat Walked Across the Keyboard by Michael Bettendorf - Hot Tub Hormone Xenotransfusion by L. Sanguine - The Other Man by Kareem Miskel - Contractual by P.L. McMillan - Happy Hour at Harry's Hole in the Wall by Joshua Dobson - Snuff by Madeline White - My Correspondence with the Goat Man by Jon Clendaniel - Thin Man by e rathke - The Money Left in the Account by Jennifer Jeanne McArdle - The Butcher of Mazdin by Shantell Powell
Each story has an original black & white illustration. Art by.... - Kae Ranck - Kit Carter - Mike David - Emma Fujikawa - Esme - Vesqid
This volume includes three non-fiction essays broadly related to music and included in the "Sound Trails" section. - I Dumped My Girlfriend: Black Dresses' LAUGHINGFISH by Dorian Bowser - Season of the Witch Review by Nico Bell - Gen Z Turns to Folk by C. P. Bearden