Tag: dark

  • To Bethany, with teeth.(Reprinted here, read in full.)

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    To Bethany, with teeth. debuted in Luna Station Quarterly earlier this Spring. I am reprinting it here today in full. An odd little morality tale featuring witchcraft gone wrong…gone right. (Painting above, Buried in the Sand, by me.) To Bethany, with teeth. Michael dunks the beaver carcass into a bright blue drum of Strip-All. He…

  • Creepy Podcast: The Scavenger

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    The Scavenger: A disaffected art school dropout returns to their impoverished rural homestead. But nothing good comes from a life of scrounging for scrap metal and ruminating on everything that has failed you. One must find new hobbies. Dramatized in August 2024 on Creepy Podcast. Narrated by Michelle Kain. Direct link to the audio (Patreon…

  • Heavy Feather Review: Everything Got Worse (the story.)

    Heavy Feather Review: Everything Got Worse (the story.)

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    Everything Got Worse: a 1990s-era supernatural tale of rural sprawl and eco-displacement told from the perspective of a kid who got eaten by a gator and his mother who will never find out why he died. Published September 2024 in Heavy Feather Review’s Haunted Passages collection. Direct link to the story. Aaaaaaaaand a taste: The…