“UNRAVELING” – New story… in a new collection!

It’s been a minute, but I’ve got another short story collection out with the good folks of The TerraGenesis Collective! As with our prior compilations, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night… and The Many Lives of Devon Reeves, the book combines a handful of speculative fiction stories centered around a titular theme — this time, “(In)justice.”

What’s right? Wrong? Who decides which is which, and the respective reward or punishment? For my take on the premise, I wrote “Unraveling“, a real-time horror riff on Clue that gets… complicated.

(In)Justice is available now for free on Smashwords, but if you don’t have an account there and don’t want to make one, please see below instead!

“EX” – Existential Body Horror Creepypasta

Thought I’d pop up with another new spooky story for Halloween! I actually wrote this one a few months ago, and even shared it on some of my socials at the time, but I held off on a broader push in hopes of first making a video version like my last couple creepypastas. However, for would-be illustrations, I had both too little cash for commissions and too much respect for artists to have AI cook it up. Thus, please enjoy this classic-style screenshot sequence (with some flourishes) about the true nature of reality… if you’ve got the guts, that is.

“ELSE” – A doppelgänger’s tale

New spooky story/picture alert! This one’s kinda It Follows meets a metaphor for personal development with a dash of body horror…

(Can’t seem to get it to show up full-size on the blog, but if you download then it’ll be in full readable resolution!)

“Gravewells” – A story/poem/thing

New spooky story alert! As is practical of late, I broke it down into a couple of social media-ready images, but it’s ultimately just a short story… I think? I experimented with alternating between poetry and prose, in a manner not unlike the verse-and-chorus structure of a song. It’s a little bit Junji Ito, a little bit Death Stranding (iykyk), and a little bit me working through my perspective on some family stuff of late. 💀🪦

Spooky Snippet: “Bathroom”

Stream-of-consciousness micro-horror story based on a niche fear of randomly seeing someone in my bathroom late at night.

Also, I decided I like making these now and then but they’re not really short films or short stories, so I’m going to start calling them “spooky snippets”… check out my growing playlist!

Eyes

A horror artists Discord server I’m a part of — which is what’s been the impetus for most of my creative output this year so far — does semi-biweekly prompts. One recently was “SLEEPLESS,” so I made… whatever this is, capitalizing on my oddly specific (but, I think, reasonable) fear of things that shouldn’t have human eyes but do.

I like poetry, horror, and mysterious images… I think I’m getting the hang of combining them like this!

“The Woman in the Hall” – A Multiformat Creepypasta

Wrote a new short spooky story for ya! In a relative first for me, this one’s based on a true story… well, the first half or so is, at least.

Like many of my recent pieces, I decided to present this one in image form, but I also thought a video instead of just a still would be an ideal complement. So, since I also figured I’d want to narrate it anyway, there’s not only the above (looping) YouTube version but also a classic still image version:

24 Seconds of Found Footage – “Vampire”

As horror goes, I like found-footage and I like short stories, so I’ve been thinking I should combine the two more often… like this!

Something about a living baseball bat

So I’ve had this really creepy plastic baseball bat for years, from my grandparents’ old Halloween decorations collection… it looks neat, no doubt, but what’s its story, I wondered? I could probably just Google the punny name on its hilt (“Ghouliville Slugger”), but where’s the fun in that? I’d rather do what I do best: pop on some Photoshop and then essentially just write a lore entry for a nonexistent horror game!

My First Two-Sentence Horror Story

So, “two-sentence horror stories” — that’s still a thing, right? There’s a pretty popular subreddit, and they made a whole show out of it? I dunno, I’m increasingly out of the loop. In any event, as someone with both a love of unnerving short fiction and experimenting with new formats, I was surprised to realize that I’d never actually taken a crack at one myself! So when a certain creepy couplet popped into my head, I decided to not just leave it as lines on the screen but give a bit more of a… visual flourish: