A close friend of mine in his eighties sent me his memoir in manuscript form. I found it fascinating as I’ve known the man thirty-five years. I had suggestions for him on perhaps reshaping it for a larger audience.
These haunting stories delve deep into dreams and nightmares, witchcraft, paganism, and death. Listening to them made cooking and the rather boring task of cleaning my kitchen entertaining and thrilling. My only complaint is that the book came to an end way too soon.
Each of the fourteen stories in this book by Dan HIlliard is short, to the point, and well-written. They will astonish you and possibly keep you awake if you start thinking about them when trying to go to sleep. The Stories: “My Dark Box” – A chilling tale of a deceived worker at a haunted house.…
I started writing when I was a kid. I always loved to read and would get lost in worlds that were so vivid in my imagination. When I was in fourth grade, I entered a young writers’ conference and placed second. After that, I started writing short stories in spiral notebooks and eventually had too…
There are typically three options when it comes to organizing a collection of short stories. An editor can have the writers come to them by establishing a call for submissions, or they can contact the authors directly in order to publish current stories. The third option is to find the right authors and then build…
Two quotes by Hunter S. Thompson sum up my youth and my writing: “Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen” and “It never got weird enough for me.” I was fascinated with people, but I quickly grew bored with ordinary life. I went off exploring other worlds: criminals, gangs, commies, Birchers, hippies, drug dealers,…
What will life be like in the future? A number of books have been written about possible futures. Various television shows and movies have depicted what their writers believe future life will be like. The stories in this anthology contain the author’s view of possible ways the future could turn out. Below are my six…
Imagine your life and your marriage are perfect. You find out you are carrying the child that you and your husband have longed for. Then the military calls your one true love away. That leaves you alone to take care of the farm. How will you survive until he returns? In eighteenth-century Kentucky, Peter and…
Has this writer been inspired by any other authors? Where do his ideas come from? How important is the cover of the book? Who designed the covers of his books? What is he working on now? And what does he do to relax? Where are you from? What is your background? Well, I am originally…
Wasteland Gods was my first novel, and so when I first began writing it, I had already taken a huge leap out of my comfort zone, which at the time was short stories. Generally speaking, there is no right or wrong way of doing anything so long as you succeed at doing it. The method…
