News:

Finally have the links to some of these released stories, plus one more.

“Chrysalis in Chrysanthemum,” my hardest-to-type title and a historical pregnancy body horror story, was chosen as an Editor’s Pick on Gavagai, a new site for horror writers and readers. You can read it for free at the link.

“Come In From the Cold,” another story in my “Lullaby” universe, is available now in Cemetery Songs Vol. 1 through Eldritch Cat Press. It’s a quiet, cozy kind of horror story, like the original. I loved revisiting this cemetery. The theme of the anthology is a cat, a song, and a graveyard. It’s free through KDP.

“Glory to God,” my grimy, irreverent novelette about a goddess and a gloryhole, is out now at Amazon in Dark Paths: A Queer Horror Romance Collection. This is one of my favorites, so don’t sleep on it.

Works in Progress:

Never & Forever (Meridian Book 8) is still chugging along. I should cross 100K words today. As soon as I’m done with this admittedly long section, the end will be in sight, thank goodness. What’s curious about this story to me is that there’s not a lot happening, but I’m still enthralled because so much of it is character friction rather than plot friction. I’m still not sure how much it works, but hopefully I can smooth out the sharper or wandering edges in edits.

My editor for In the Dollhouse We All Wait is in the middle of his edits now, and my indie editor for the May Cooler Heads Prevail novella is getting started as well, so I may need to shuffle some things around my schedule to adjust for receiving those, which means delaying We Follow You in the Dark rewrites and the Dracula reimagining adjustments. And I still need to put A Nightmare For All Seasons out, but it may simply be better to wait for spring, which is the season that starts the collection.

Books I’m Reading:

Raising Loki: A Memoir by Elliot Manarin
Rose Madder by Stephen King

Things I’m Listening To:

Halloween playlist
Silent Hill playlist

Things I’m Watching:

Halloween II (2009)
Haunt
Muppets Haunted Mansion
M3gan 2.0
SWAT series
Hannibal series
Matlock series
CSI: NY series
CSI series
Great British Baking Show series

Poem of the Week:

bone scored and
sinew snapped
muscle a ragged ruin
caves and crevices
made of feast flesh
on a forest floor
left a claw behind
and fur in the cracks
and tracks of long paw
rat ventures into
savaged tunnel and
makes a brief warm home
where it can eat the walls