My horror story Die On Your Feet has been accepted by Havok for their Thriller Thursday series. The story is an allegory about what happens to people who deny the reality of their situation, despite all the evidence telling them they are wrong.
“It ain’t real,” Grady insisted. “Think! Have you ever actually seen one of the things up there?”
“No, but I’ve seen what it does to people.”
The audio production of my body horror story A Thing of Beauty is now available for free on The Storyteller Series podcast. As a fleshcrafter, Anastasia Dao has the unique ability to remake a person’s outside to match the beauty within. But when one of her girls is viciously murdered, she realizes that revenge can be a beautiful thing.
The body hanging from the ceiling began to writhe, straining against the inside of the translucent, teardrop-shaped sac in which it was encased. The sac stretched and distended, pressing outwards in all directions as the figure inside struggled to break free.
My short ghost story Butterscotch has been published in HAUS: Anthology of Haunted House Stories by Culture Cult Press. Renting an apartment above a funeral parlor might freak some people out, but not Ellen. Not at first, anyway.
For a moment, I imagined my grandmother laying there on one of the tables, her body cold and stiff, her eyelids stitched shut, her tissue-thin skin pulled taut over her jutting cheekbones. Nicholas had done that, I realized, right in the room where I was standing.
My sci-fi horror story A Piece of the Sky has been published by The Dread Machine. It’s told through the testimony of the surviving member of a two-person asteroid mining crew that picked up an unfortunate souvenir during their expedition.
With all due respect, sir, you don’t know what you’re talking about. There was no way Bakely could’ve known what the thing was when he picked it up. It looked like a rock. Hell, it was a rock, just a hunk of the asteroid’s crust that he grabbed as a souvenir for his kid. There’s no way he could’ve known it was a nest.
Three of my sci-fi horror drabbles have been accepted into the Dark Stars anthology by Shacklebound Books.
My fantasy drabble The Man Who Was a Tree has been accepted into the Done in a Hundred anthology by NUNUM. It’s the story of a man who was turned into a tree, and what happens when the curse is lifted.
My ghost story Butterscotch has been accepted into the HAUS anthology by Culture Cult Press. Renting an apartment above a funeral parlor might freak some people out, but not Ellen. Not at first, anyway.
My underwater horror story A Sinking Feeling has been accepted into the Emergence anthology by The Writer’s Cache. It’s the story of two survivors trapped in an air pocket in a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean. And they’re not alone.
Two of my short horror stories—Something’s Wrong With Mom and They Say Crows Can Remember Faces—have been accepted by The Literary Hatchet. These are two of my favorite stories, so I’m thrilled to have them appear in such a great publication.
My haunted house story House of Whispers has been published in the A Very Ghostly Christmas anthology by Ghost Orchid Press. The story has all the elements of a classic ghost story: an old Victorian mansion, strange whispers in the walls, mysterious disappearances, and a twist ending that ties them all together.
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