My short horror story Many Deaths Before Dying has been published in Arcana Deck Three by Underland Press. When a giant, silvery puddle appears in the field where they play, four boys encounter an inexplicable horror that will change them forever.

Content warning: suicide (implied)

“We need to get help,” I said quietly. But I didn’t move. I felt rooted in place, as if my feet had bonded to the Earth’s crust. I was frozen solid, utterly paralyzed with fear. Shah hadn’t just fallen into the puddle. He had been pulled.