Short Stories
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For the Seer, Who Sees in the Snow: The Winter House at the Road’s End
For the Seer, Who Sees in the Snow: The Winter House at the Road’s End appearing in Hauntings and Hoarfrost, an anthology, edited by Rhonda Parrish.
Wild storms, the sound of ice skates cutting across an empty pond and blankets of soft, white, beautiful death.
In the dark depths of winter, it is easy to become isolated as snow obscures landmarks and drifts create claustrophobic situations that can leave you huddled in your house, struggling to keep warm . . . and, perhaps, to ignore the message scrawled in the frost on the window.
Within these pages, you’ll discover eerie tales of long ago ghosts stretching frost-bitten fingers into the present, unexplained footprints in the snow, screaming madness, and icy cold sanity.
Editor Rhonda Parrish presents Hauntings and Hoarfrost, an anthology brimming with chilling stories and poems of the mysterious and uncanny for all lovers of horror, fantasy, and gothic.To read more and for links to order physical copies and eBooks, visit Amazon.
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The Ghost Of Violet Gray
The Ghost Of Violet Gray appearing in Saltwater Sorrows, an anthology, edited by Rhonda Parrish.
Deep, mysterious, beautiful . . . dangerous . . .
Women and the sea have been tied together in myth and story from the beginning of time. Tales of women being drawn to the sea or being left on the shore, waiting for their men’s return, have been passed down through the ages.
But what mysteries lie beneath the sparkling placid waters? What power drives the wind and waves crashing against the shore? There is transformation and exaltation—magic—in the ocean and women alike. And both know that while the sea gives, the sea also takes.
To read more and for links to order physical copies and eBooks, visit Tycho Books.
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A Beautiful Nightmare
A Beautiful Nightmare appearing in Trenchcoats, Towers, and Trolls (Punked Up Fairy Tales, #3),
Edited by Rhonda Parrish
What do you get when you take the high tech/low life settings of cyberpunk and sprinkle them with the magic and possibilities of fairy tales?
Trolls under teleportation bridges, masquerades held in virtual reality, princely avatars, giants and dwarves alongside hackers and androids.
From retellings of traditional tales such as Rumpelstiltskin, in which a young woman is tasked with writing code instead of spinning gold, to original tales like the changeling-inspired story of a formless machine intelligence that hijacks human bodies, these cyberpunk fairy tales form a unique collection that is sure to satisfy connoisseurs of both genres.
Original stories from Thomas Badlan, Suzanne Church, Beth Goder, Sarah Van Goethem, Nicola Kapron, V.F. LeSann, Angus McIntyre, Wendy Nikel, Ana Sun, Michael Teasdale, Alena Van Arendonk and Laura VanArendonk Baugh.
You can read a longer excerpt here:
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R is for Remember
R is for Remember appearing in G is for Ghosts (Alphabet Anthologies, #7)
Edited by Rhonda ParrishA teenage girl’s classmates begin disappearing only to haunt her dreams, ships full of ghostly passengers in need of release test those who are tasked to give them peace, psychopomps whose job is guiding the spirits of the dead to the other side meet in a support group, and more fill these pages.
Featuring work by Pete Aldin, Andrew Bourelle, Stephanie A. Cain, Beth Cato, M.L.D. Curelas, Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, Amanda C. Davis, Roddy Fosburg, Joseph Halden, Lynn Hardaker, L.S. Johnson, Michael M. Jones, Jeanne Kramer-Smyth, Samantha Kymmell-Harvey, C.S. MacCath, Jonathan C. Parrish, Alexandra Seidel, Samantha L. Strong, Michael B. Tager, Rachel M. Thompson, Laura VanArendonk Baugh, Sarah Van Goethem, Xan van Rooyen, Lilah Wild, Suzanne J. Willis and BD Wilson.
These twenty-six ghost stories, each with a unique perspective and style, explore hauntings and specters in ways both new and familiar. From Poise and Pen Publishing.
This anthology can be purchased at Amazon.ca in paperback, or Kindle eBook.
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A Borrowed Husband shortlisted for CBC Nonfiction Prize
The story’s source of inspiration
“Love. How love is messy and unpredictable and not always easy. I like to hide behind fiction, but my mom is always insisting I write my story. After my first husband died, I spent the next year writing a journey through grief that no one has ever seen. In doing so, I learned that the harder you love, the harder you grieve. I avoided writing this story for a while, because I knew it would hurt. But in the end, it is also a love story. Just a different one than most people imagine. I wrote it to the first wife because it is her story, too. Just like my late husband, she holds a piece of this story we all share.”
Read the story here:
https://www.cbc.ca/books/literaryprizes/a-borrowed-husband-by-sarah-van-goethem-1.6164289
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A Knot of Sea Wives
A Knot of Sea Wives appearing in Water: Selkies, Sirens and Sea Monsters (Elemental Anthologies, #4)
Edited by Rhonda Parrish.Water is the most yielding of all elements, changing to fit its container, whether that be a thimble or a lake bed. At the same time, anyone who has ever watched the unrelenting progression of a tsunami understands its raw power. Associated with mutability, transformation, and the subconscious, water is both the tranquil azure of a tropical sea and the tumultuous waves and whitecaps of an embroiled ocean. As many faces as water may wear, the creatures within and associated with it have even more.
Featuring: Catherine MacLeod; Kevin Cockle; Greta Starling; Elise Forier Edie; Kate Shannon; Sara Rauch; Katie Marie; Rebecca Brae; Colleen Anderson; L. T. Waterson; Chadwick Ginther; Julia Heller; Marshall J. Moore; Joel McKay; Elizabeth R. McClellan; Eric M. Borsage; Laura VanArendonk Baugh; Josh Reynolds; Liam Hogan; Mari Ness; Davide Mana; Sarah Van Goethem; Valerie Hunter; and Kelly Sandoval.
From Tyche Books
Available for sale at Amazon.ca in Paperback or as Kindle eBook.
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Wind Song
Wind song, appearing in Air: Sylphs, Spirits & Swan Maidens
Whimsical, Inquisitive, Quick-Witted
Air is essential for life. The need for air is so important that breathing is instinctual. Yet Air is unstable and capricious, blowing gently as a summer breeze in one moment and blasting with the fury of a tornado in the next. No wonder that tricksters, fairies, and spirits belong to Air just as much as winged creatures. Elusive and ethereal, Air’s denizens are difficult to find and harder to capture.
Brave the ever-changing world of Air with these twenty-one stories and poems, featuring: Rose Strickman; Davian Aw; Mark Bruce; Alexandra Seidel; Damascus Mincemeyer; Cherry Potts; Ellen Huang; Giselle Leeb; Bronwynn Erskine; Kevin Cockle; Elizabeth R. McClellan; Chadwick Ginther; Christa Hogan; Rowena McGowan; Laura VanArendonk Baugh; Alyson Faye; Mara Malins; Sara C. Walker;
Elise Forier Edie; Oliver Smith; and Sarah Van Goethem.Purchase on: Amazon.ca Amazon.com Apple Books Rakuten Kobo
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A Bird Girl in the Dark of Night
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, A BIRD GIRL IN THE DARK OF NIGHT is a retelling of Grimm’s “Fitcher’s Bird” fairy tale.
You can read the fist lines here: https://www.worldweaverpress.com/blog
Released in 2021, in the Punked Up Fairy Tales #2 anthology, CLOCKWORK, CURSES AND COAL.
A collection of “Steampunk and Gaslamp Fairy Tales”.
Fairies threaten the world of artifice and technology, forcing the royal family to solve a riddle to stop their world from irrevocable change; a dishonest merchant uses automatons as vessels for his secrets and lies; a woman discovers the secret of three princesses whose shoes get scuffed while they sleep. These and so many other steampunk and gaslamp fairy tales await within the pages of Clockwork, Curses and Coal.
Retellings of Hansel and Gretel, The Princess and the Pea, Pinocchio, The Twelve Dancing Princesses and more are all showcased alongside some original fairy tale-like stories. Featuring stories by Melissa Bobe, Adam Brekenridge, Beth Cato, MLD Curelas, Joseph Halden, Reese Hogan, Diana Hurlburt, Christina Johnson, Alethea Kontis, Lex T. Lindsay, Wendy Nikel, Brian Trent, Laura VanArendonk Baugh and Sarah Van Goethem.More information on Goodreads
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The Healing
TTHE HEALING, appearing in GLASS AND GARDENS: SOLARPUNK WINTERS
THE HEALING is a positive futuristic tale, with a living-city and a woman who desperately wants to heal it. From World Weaver Press.
Solarpunk is a type of eco-conscious science fiction that imagines an optimistic future founded on renewable energies. Often aiming for a balance of nature and technology, and always inclusive and diverse, solarpunk stories show the ways we have adapted to climate change, or the ways we overcome it.
This anthology envisions winters of the future, with stories of scientists working together to protect narwhals from an oil spill, to bring snow back to the mountains of Maine, to preserve ecosystems–even if they have to be under glass domes. They’re stories of regular people rising to extraordinary circumstances to survive extreme winter weather, to fix a threat to their community’s energy source, to save a living city from a deep-rooted sickness. Some take place after an environmental catastrophe, with luxury resorts and military bases and mafia strongholds transformed into sustainable communes; others rethink the way we could organize cities, using skybridges and seascrapers and constructed islands to adapt to the changes of the Anthropocene. Even when the nights are long, the future is bright in these seventeen diverse tales.
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The Wood Witch
THE WOOD WITCH, appearing in HALLOWEEN PARTY 2019.
THE WOOD WITCH is a horror tale, reminiscent of THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, with a sentient house, a realtor looking for love, and a haunted widower.
From Devil’s Party Press, publisher of the award-winning anthologies SOLSTICE, SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY, and EQUINOX presents an all-new collection of terrifying tales by 36 wild talents.
Settle your mask into place. It’s time for the Halloween Party to begin.
You have been invited to open this book to experience stories so macabre, so horrifying, that we must recommend you read them before dark. Make the unwise choice to read one of these unsettling tales just before switching off the light, and we cannot promise that you will live to see the next morning sun.
Thank you for coming to our party. It was nice to know you while you were among the living.Purchase on Amazon.ca or Amazon.com
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