“It will be room 108, over there on your left.” The hotel concierge gestured to the hallway behind the two men. Hal and Bruce gathered their bags and walked across the lobby to their room. They arrived at room 108, unlocked the door with their key card, and dropped their bags on the floor once […]
Harvest Night
The tornado sirens began just as Amanda started up her pickup truck in the dark of the night and sped off the property, spraying gravel back at her fiancé’s house. She saw Brent through the rearview mirror as he charged out to the porch and put his hands on his hips, an anguished look on […]
Author’s Notes: The World of Plague of Dead
What if the Black Death was not just a bubonic plague? What if it was a zombie plague? What if whenever someone died of the Black Death, they arose again as a zombie within a few minutes of death?
A Genie for the Foolish
The genie said, “I will grant you three wishes.”
The man thought for a moment and said, “For my first wish, I wish I had a thousand wishes.”
The Frog Next Door
A gender-flipped modern retelling of The Frog-King, or Iron Henry from Grimm’s Fairy Tales Jan Caldwell was a divorced single mom with three handsome sons. But the youngest of her sons, Ash, was especially striking. Whenever his grandfather came to visit the grandsons, he would often tell the youngest that the sun was astonished whenever […]