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Twisted Valentine
A twisted slice of Valentine fiction for you here – I submitted a story to Lily Childs’ February Femmes Fatales, and happily had it accepted! There are some corking stories going up right throughout this month, so plenty to keep you occupied. But what was even better than just being accepted was having Whispering Sweet […]
Photo Prompt 72
New prompt available! If you want to use the prompt, all I ask is that you include a link to this entry and a credit to me for the photograph, and that you post a link to your story in the comments box below so I can see what you’ve come up with! If you […]
Friday Flash – Anonymous
Photo from Popular Archaeology Maria scrawled her signature on the form, and handed the clipboard back to the courier. He scurried out of the lab, leaving her and Tom with the coffin. “Where exactly did Sasha find this?” asked Maria. She ran her hands across the smooth wood. “There was a stone sarcophagus in a […]
[Book Review] Blood and Fire
I’ve long been a fan of Carrie Clevenger’s Xan Marcelles, and in this novella, the bassist vampire is marched out of Pale Rider, in Pinecliffe, Colorado, and into a hellish house of mysteries. He’s not the only one – Ashton Kennedy, written by Nerine Dorman, is a being known as an Inkarna (essentially a body […]
Short Stack Anthology Out NOW!
I’m pleased to announce that I have a short story in a brand new anthology! I submitted One Woman Cure as part of a joint competition between For Books Sake and Pulp Press last year (many thanks to Adam Byatt, Maria Kelly and Michael Shean for their beta reading input) and the anthology, named Short […]