The Bleeding Tree on Drabblecast

Previously only available in print from Dark Recesses Press magazine, one of my more wholesome stories is now on Drabblecast.

Wholesome, you say? Yes, really. I suppose it’s folk horror, in a way. The Bleeding Tree features a pre-teen main character who befriends a cemetery caretaker and who, uh, also collects hearts from roadkill. But I promise you, it’s a sweet and wholesome story at its core.

Reader Connor M Solan took the time to find my post about the story’s original release and offer this amazing praise:

Thank you, Connor. It means the world to know a story works so well for you, and it’s very generous of you to take the time to say so.

Listen to The Bleeding Tree on Drabblecast episode 503, and check out this illustration created especially for the story by artist Łukasz Godlewski:

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Joe Koch writes literary horror and surrealist trash. Their books include The Wingspan of Severed Hands, Invaginies, Convulsive, and The Couvade, which received a Shirley Jackson Award nomination in 2019. His short work appears in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Southwest Review, Nightmare Magazine, Vastarien, The Mad Butterfly's Ball, and many others. Find Joe (he/they) online at horrorsong.blog.

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