Miki whispers “Daddy” into the dark, as she has on the cusps of the last seven midnights. The dark breathes back onto her. Her hand reaches up to the shelf beside the bed and presses the large pebbled button on her alarm clock. A thin voice says, “It is eleven-fifty-six p.m.” Each word’s tail is […]
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Tyler shot a foamy jet of roach spray into his laughing mouth. He sprang up from the basement floor and lifted his fists toward the unfinished ceiling, gargling a pop song. An old cloak the color of buttered toast hung off his shoulders, ending in tatters above his knees. “Swallow it,” Meribeth said. Her eyes […]
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Ira switched off the lamp and stretched his legs out under the covers with soft gasps. His arthritis nibbled at him. Outside, rain droned against the roof, washed their wooded acres in a gray blanket. He thought abstractly of what he would do tomorrow. The garden, maybe. “Good night, love,” he murmured to his wife. […]
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Short stories are all fine and good, but when will you have a novel? All the answers I used to give to this question (which mostly came down to “I’m trying to find room in my life”) can finally be done away with, because The October Film Haunt is coming on September 30, 2025, courtesy […]
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[excerpt from Rotting Pyramid: Tracing the Teeth of America Cult, Dr. Linda Royal, University of Georgia Press, 2025] The nine thousand wild acres between Hiram and Forsyth—between Georgia state roads 9 and 113 and 378, specifically—form a rough triangle, and the cult erected the pyramid in its center. They buoyed it in an ocean of […]
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Publishing fiction is always a risky venture. Will anyone read the things I made up? Will enough people? Will they enjoy them? Sometimes, though, it’s worth upping the risk a little and making the questions shriller. And so it is with great pleasure and enormous fanfare (okay, maybe regular fanfare) that I announce the publication […]
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Every February spooky women crawl out of their haunted tombs and forests and we offer them cursed garlands and strange roots that grow under the full moon. We should do this all year long, but it’s still nice to add a little formality and ritual to it. Every year there’s the sense of progress in […]
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I’m proud to share that my story “La quedada fílmica de octubre: Bajo la casa” is a finalist for the Premio Ignotus in the Foreign Story category. The award ceremony will be held in Madrid, Spain, this year at the annual Hispacon. The story appears in Un lugar mejor, the Spanish translation (courtesy of Miguel […]
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Kendall Reviews recently asked me to write a guest post, and since I’ve recently finished writing my first novel, it seemed to be a subject in which I could offer some advice. So rather than talking about my favorite short stories or records to write to, I tried to use my experience for good. If […]
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Justin Burnett dug into me with some questions, bravely facing any worms he might encounter in the soil. I rambled a bit in the hopes a couple of those worms had a little insight to share. You can read the interview here.
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Michael Wehunt 