My dark sci-fi drabble Final Notice has been published by 100-Foot-Crow. It’s about what happens when you forget to make the payments on your self-driving car.
The first time I tried Chauffeur, it felt like magic. I watched in awe as it effortlessly piloted my car through traffic, the driver’s seat empty. Naturally, I signed up. $199 per month. I thought I could afford it.
I was wrong.
The audio production of my horror drabble Everything You Know About Witches is now available for free from the Tiny Frights podcast. It’s about a woman about to be burned at the stake, and the (mostly) mistaken assumptions that sent her there.
My holiday horror drabble Dead Bulb has been published by Pulp Asylum. It’s about a string of holiday lights powered by souls captured at the moment of death.
Two of my horror drabbles—Everything You Know About Witches and The Fog of War—have been published in Tiny Frights, Vol. 3 No. 1.
Four of my horror drabbles—three originals and a reprint—have been published in the Drabbledark III anthology by Shacklebound Books.
My dark sci-fi drabble As an A.I. Language Model has been published in the Programmed Hearts anthology by Shacklebound Books. As an A.I. language model, I am unable to easily summarize this story without spoiling it.
My holiday horror drabble Up on the Rooftop has been published in Christmas of the Dead: Krampus Kountry by Wicked Shadow Press. It’s the story of a brother and sister on Christmas Eve who hear someone—or something—climbing on the roof.
There’s something on the roof.
My sister and I huddle behind the couch, our tearful eyes glistening in the glow of the Christmas lights. The house shakes with each heavy footfall thudding overhead. Plaster dust drifts from the ceiling like snowfall. A low growl echoes down the chimney, followed by the metallic scraping of a heavy blade.
My sci-fi body horror drabble Only We has been published in Martian Magazine. It’s the story of a couple who wanted grow closer to each other … but not that close.
His hand caresses my cheek. His cheek. Our cheek.
There is no he anymore. There is no me. There is only us. Only we.
My sci-fi drabble We Need To Talk has been published by Martian Magazine. It’s a story about what happens when your AI assistant knows you better than you know yourself.
I don’t know how to tell him.
I’m just an AI assistant. I order cigarettes when he runs out. I hail him a cab when he’s drunk. I don’t do… this.
Three of my horror drabbles has been published in The Book of Drabbles by Shacklebound Books.
Warren Benedetto 