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Moloch was a “live” Patreon story that was written in weekly installments for all patrons as part of my ongoing Story In Progress series....

Sirens & Seaweed was a second 10- Day challenge project that I participated in with Judith Sonnet, Lucas Mangum, Chisto and Healy. The...

So, fun little fact for everyone. A few years ago, I wrote under the pen name Candle Phillips as an experiment for a series of short...

VENUS By Candace Nola Ten-Day Story Challenge Venus was written as a godless short story, part of a series of Ten-Day challenges that I...

This story was part of a three-story tribute chapbook published by Joe Monks, featuring stories by Joe, Franklin Wales, and myself. The...

Double Feature is my homage to the campy gorefest films of the 80s and 90s. Just gore, violence, absurdity, and more gore, soaked in...

This story is one of my lesser known and less extreme horror stories but is loosely based on a few facts taken from the Harry Powers, or...

The Final Stake is my first vampire story and I’m pretty proud of how it turned out. While the original concept I had in mind ended up...

DESPERATE WISHES is a story that I am very proud of. It was first released by Thunderstorm Books in July of 2023 as part of Mary San...

Inherent from WEREWOLVES by KJK Publishing. I’ve done several stories for the Horror Collection from Kevin Kennedy, but this one was for...

Back Road from "Y'ALL AIN'T RIGHT" published by Evil Cookie. Back Road was one of those ideas that began as one thing, then morphed...

The Lost Diary is a story that I am quite proud of and surprisingly, it is one of the first short stories that I ever wrote and was for...

The Crabapple Game is a story that I have in the EVIL LITTLE FUCKS anthology from Sinister Smile. The theme was evil children, and this...

The Music Box Dancer was a new type of story for me and my first using openly black characters. I typically create characters that could...

This week's note pertains to a short story that I wrote for Kevin Kennedy's Horror Collection: Lost Edition. Frequencies is a horrific...

Today's story is Click, from the Perfectly Fine Neighborhood, published by French Press in 2023. This anthology is based on the novel by...

Starting a new thing for my blog, since I am posting these to my Patreon as well. First, for all patrons, of course, but I've found that...