My sci-fi horror story A Piece of the Sky has been accepted 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.
The audio production of my horror story Breathtaking is now available for free from the Thirteen Podcast. Set in 1930s Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl, it tells the story of a young girl and her brother who see a mysterious woman in white screaming outside their house during a dust storm.
Nine of my horror drabbles have been accepted into the Nom Nom Halloween drabble anthology by Black Hare Press. The first six are originals; the other three are reprints.
And, yes, all the stories are required to have two-word titles.
The audio production of my short horror story They Say Crows Can Remember Faces is now available for free from Scare You To Sleep. Shelby Scott is the absolute best in the horror podcasting business, and she proves it once again with her incredible narration and brilliant sound design. This is one of my favorite stories, so I am beyond thrilled to hear it performed and produced so perfectly.
My horror drabble He Has His Father’s Eyes has been accepted into next month’s Dark Moments by Black Hare Press, for their Nephilim theme. It’s hard to believe, but this is my 100th acceptance since I started writing short fiction just 2 1/2 years ago. My very first acceptance was also a drabble with Black Hare Press (In the Water, in the Ancients anthology), so it’s fitting that my 100th is too.
My short horror story They Say Crows Can Remember Faces has been accepted by the Scare You To Sleep podcast. I recently discovered the show via their incredible production of Caleb Stephens’ You Have To Let Him Burn and it instantly became one of my favorite horror podcasts. This is also one of my favorite stories, so I can’t wait to hear what Shelby does with it.
My psychological horror novelette Make It a Double has been published in the August issue of Dark Horses Magazine. It’s a cautionary tale of the “be careful what you wish for” variety, about the unfortunate consequences of unchecked envy and greed.
My second-person psychological horror story You Are Reading This Story has been published in the This Is Too Tense charity anthology by Bag of Bones Press. The story is an ouroboros: the reader is the writer reading the story he is writing, as he considers how to write the story he is reading.
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My psychological horror novelette Make It A Double has been accepted by Dark Horses Magazine for their August 2022 issue. It’s a cautionary tale of the “be careful what you wish for” variety, about the unfortunate consequences of unchecked envy and greed.
Warren Benedetto 