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Blog postVery proud to announce that my story The Growth appears in the excellent anthology If I Die Before I Wake: Tales of Nightmare Creatures, Volume 4 of the much-loved Better Off Dead series. I hope you’ll check it out.
From Goodreads Review: “This is the story that’s going to stick with you for a long, long time. It’s gruesome, it’s heartbreaking, and it’s terrifying.”
𝐈𝐟 𝐈 𝐃𝐢𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐈 𝐖𝐚𝐤𝐞 – 𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞 𝟒: 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 -
Blog postStella was seven when she discovered she could do magic. She wondered if the sudden ability to do magic had to do with being seven years old on the seventh day of the month and living on the 7th floor of the apartment building, but then she found she could do magic on the roof as well as the sixth floor and the basement, so maybe it was just being seven, and not where she lived.
She was too young to know about the quantum quality of the middle of things, and how seven always opens lik -
Blog postThe doorbell buzzed, and it wasn’t an especially long buzz or short buzz. It was just a regular buzz. There was nothing of the harbinger about it.
I figured it was a friend of one of the kids, or maybe Laura from next door looking for sugar or something. Thinking it but not thinking it in the way you have background thoughts when you’re doing something and get interrupted and your mind is still back on the thing you were doing.
What I was doing was making din -
Blog postBefore you died, you made me promise that if you died I would never ever forget you. Funny how it’s only now that I’m remembering you said “if” and not ‘when” as if you thought an exemption could be made.
Or maybe it’s just that we were so young, and so were allowed to say ‘if’ and not when without fear of godly reprisal, because the gods know that the young’s inability to conceive of their own death is not arrogance so much as innocence, a naïveté -
Blog postSince the war, he does not go to the baths. He cannot bear to be near other men, naked toads squatting in drifting steam. He does not like to see the scar that snakes thick and ropy across his thigh.
His wife prepares vichyssoise, beef in red wine sauce and wrapped in pastry, pot de crème. He eats the elegant food with the elegant guests. He smiles and longs for miso, rice, a thin cold slice of ono. He is a doctor.
His daughters say goodnight.&nb -
Blog postThis morning I woke up early, like I been doing ever since I started doing the livestock chores. It’s getting to be high summer now, and by seven it is warm enough to go without my shirt though I keep it mostly on nowdays just in case someone takes a notion to come by.
Jake goes without which is fine, he is younger and plus it means less washing for me, and I have enough to do around here. I let Seth go around bare as he was born because he is only three.
Jake is a -
Blog postI never suspected anything – no one did. I mean, did you? When you went, did you? See, that’s how I know how good they were – I don’t even have to ask you if you went. Everyone went. And lots of people went more than once, even. Even celebrities went. Pro athletes, famous actresses. People from Turkey and China and Panama and Germany. The Japanese always get the worst sunburns. And you could always tell the Ge
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Blog postI’ve been a cop for twenty-seven years – a detective for the last twelve. I retired last year – had to. I’ve had a trick knee since that raid we did in ’97. It was good work but I was never right after that, and I hated driving a desk. We struck a deal and I left with most of my pension and a letter of commendation and not too many hard feelings.
I still think of myself as a cop, though, and I always will. It gets in your blood.
I know this is where an -
Blog postI woke up like usual. The sound of morning rush hour traffic outside my window. I thought about the report I had to write and send off to a client. There was a lot of information to pull together: contract terms, suppliers, timing, pricing. I needed to get up, get to it. But it was hard to get out of bed. I was tired, up late last night working. Like always.
After five minutes I was actually feeling sleepy again, and telling myself not to fall back asleep. And that w -
Blog postHe was going to end it tonight. This time for sure.
This time he really would do it. He would not let himself feel guilty. He would be cold. That had been the problem in the past – trying too hard to be nice. He hated the thought of hurting her. He dreaded watching her blue eyes grow large and wet, her face grow still, her little brow puckering delicately as understanding set in. But most of all he dreaded what she always said.
“But…I
Titles By Sandra Stephens
If I Die Before I Wake: Tales of Nightmare Creatures (The Better Off Dead Series Book 4)
Feb 8, 2021
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Steven Pajak,
Scotty Milder,
Elana Gomel,
Hannah O'Doom,
Scott Harper,
Bridgett Nelson,
Brian Asman,
Sandra Stephens,
Henry Herz,
Red Lagoe,
Frank Beghin,
Kevin M. Folliard,
Matthew R. Davis,
Jeff Strand
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John L. Monk,
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A. A. Leil,
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Rinelle Grey,
Sandra Stephens,
Scott Burtness,
Bob Summer,
Nick Cole,
James A. Jeffries,
Tobias D. Robison,
Cora Buhlert,
Gregg Fedchak,
Mark Capell,
Duncan Swallow,
E. A. Linden,
Petur HK,
Ffetch De'Ath,
Edward M. Grant,
Meribeth Hutto,
David Lawlor,
David Perry,
Rachel Barney
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