I never posted a story so close to the deadline, but seeing as I had some money to burn 🤣😂 and I haven't put anything out in over 2 weeks, I thought what the hell... This story is DARK, probably even for me. I was in a way inspired by the book "In The Dream House"...
this story was so mystifying and amazing. I don't want to be needy but I feel like this deserves a part 2! Reply 7 points Amanda Lieser 15:17 Oct 29, 2022 Hi Lucy! Welcome to Reedsey and CONGRATULATIONS on the win! This was such a beautiful piece and a thrilling take on the...
However, we are very much closed to our regular short story submissions until January. We’re still working through the backlog from the last window, and we have even more from the October one dragging down the pile to boot. We can’t possibly handle any more right now! But I fear tha...
But while Barron is a decidedly more prolific short story writer, this does not mean his first novel (or second, depending on how much of a word-length guardian you are) packs any less of a wallop. It all hinges on the basic idea that knowledge might not exactly equal power, or, ...
usually turns out, chittering darkness. That populated darkness. That hungry place. Look into a shadow long enough, you'll see a face, and then you'll judge what body should go with that face, and what story could produce a thing like that, and then you're in that story with it. ...
Take William Faulkner’s short storyA Rose for Emily. After Emily dies, the villagers discover the corpse of a long-vanished traveler in one of her spare beds — along with a strand of silver hair. While the discovery of the body might be gruesome, it’s the presence of Emily’s hair...