My modern dark fantasy story Dragonsbreath has been accepted into Spectacular, Spectacular! An Anthology of Circensian Horror, a collection of circus-themed tales of terror. It’s the story of a teen forced to wear a fireproof mask to protect himself and others from a power he can’t control.

The woman’s head lurched forward as her SUV slowed to a jarring stop, its bumper only inches from the police car parked sideways across her lane. Half a dozen emergency vehicles crowded the street ahead of her. There were police cars. Fire trucks. An ambulance.

The woman watched with mounting horror as a pair of paramedics lifted a gurney out of the ambulance and began wheeling it up the driveway of a nearby house.

Her house.