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Thursday, July 17, 2025

The Perfect New Friend

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Another has everything you could ask for in a creepy read—a child who feels lost and alone; parents who don’t, or won’t, seem to get it; an ...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Amazing Tales

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Combat Monsters: Untold Tales of World War II  is like most anthologies — some stories are good, and some just didn’t speak to me. That’s no...
Thursday, May 08, 2025

The Night Birds

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  The premise hooked me before I started reading. A decrepit, ancient freighter stuck off the coast of Houston in the Gulf of Mexico during ...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

A Palace Near the Wind

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There was much to like but some to dislike in this one for me. It is imaginative to be sure. I wanted to know more about the Feng, the part ...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Some Family Secrets Are Better Left Buried

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Luckily for us, this one wasn’t. The last time I was held captive like this was reading The Only Good Indians . Stephen Graham Jones has a ...
Tuesday, January 07, 2025

Goals are not Resolutions

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 When I first started writing, I was completely clueless. The last time I got anywhere near a proper English class was high school way back ...
Friday, September 27, 2024

Catch and Release

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Here's some more unedited story from the cutting room. It's messy, but I'll clean it up and mine for gold as I plan to use some ...
Monday, September 23, 2024

The Nasty Work of Editing (and on a Sunday! Gasp!)

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 I’m currently editing Your Pal Al, my long unfinished novel. In the past 24 hours, I have cut over 1500 words from Your Pal Al. That sounds...
Saturday, August 10, 2024

Cat 5 Carnage

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The hurricane has made landfall, and it brings something horrific. Like monster storms of the Caribbean, Gabino Iglesias knows how to spin s...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

This One Put A Scare Into Daddo

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A disturbing and terrifying story about Bela and her family and her “Other Mommy.”  Other Mommy is her friend and confidant—a lot like Daddo...
Thursday, March 14, 2024

Not Forgotten

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FORGOTTEN SISTERS is another solid read from Cynthia Pelayo. Eerie and atmospheric, it is part haunted house/ghost story, and part  noir  de...
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Almost a perfect ending

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For me, this one started off a bit rocky. There was so much going on—so much death and destruction. And it all seemed like it was just anoth...
Monday, January 29, 2024

Rotten Fruit makes for a Wickedly Delicious Story

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What happens when you take a writer who is obsessed by apples? You get a story that twists and turns like the roots of an old, wild apple tr...
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