Closing out 2025, my 120th published short story appears in the anthology The Joining: Scenes of Wedding Terror from Crystal Lake Publishing.
“Starving Stones, Speaking Stones” is about an unconventional winter wedding in a little chapel that eats memories. Many thanks to Jacob Steven Mohr for sending me the invitation to his unusual project. I tried to give him something unlike the common themes one might expect to see in a wedding horror slush pile. I’m pleased to share pages with T.L. Bodine, Jonathan Louis Duckworth, Christi Nogle, J.A.W. McCarthy, Gordon B. White, Steve Neal, Corey Farrenkopf, Simon Bestwick, and other authors I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know over the past decade of short story writing.
I’m ending 2025 with a total of 19 originals and 4 reprints published, as well as an entry in Undertow’s The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, which is a great honor. In 2026, I’ll have a handful of new stories out, and I plan to complete some long-form projects that have been brewing in the background for quite some time. Hopefully, one of those will become a new book.
Stay well through the winter solstice and into the new year. Thanks for reading!
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