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Take Cover, a Storm is Coming!
In the shape of thirteen stories, dark and menacing, lightning strikes many times. A genie visits a junkie to grant him his every wish. A young boy hears voices in his family's new home. A man wakes to a kindly old woman, or is she? A woman and her grandmother are on edge after a series of grisly murders. Contestants on a game show vie for the ultimate prize, freedom. A trip home to visit his parents puts a son face to face with paralyzing horror. And a young man is warned to stay away from an old spooky neighbor.
The scars on a woman's body tell a grim tale about her past and future. A husband presses his wife on the truth about their daughter. A woman picked up at an airport has a few surprises for her driver. A man looking for a respite in nature finds nature turning against him. In a dystopian environment, a woman has some words of advice for her daughter to heed. And a boy hiding from his abusive father, gets the ultimate revenge.
Stories by Mack Stevens, Laura Stewart Schmidt, Weldon Burge, Cordelia Kelly, W.C. Wolfe, Phil Ford, Moira Richardson, Elsa Pair, Cyndi Gradel, Mary Kuykendall, Janet Garber, Lurence T. Mullinax, and Julianna Waters
Elsa Pair
ELSA PAIR graduated from the University of Houston, where she worked as poetry editor for Glass Mountain Magazine. Her work has been published in Glass Mountain, Defunkt Magazine, and Superfroot Magazine, among others.
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Weldon Burge
Weldon Burge is a suspense and horror writer and publisher. His debut thriller, Harvester of Sorrow: An Ezekiel Marrs Thriller, is the first in a proposed series. His fiction has appeared in many publications, including magazines, anthologies, and story collections. Weldon frequently writes author interviews and penned the how-to manual, Getting the Story Straight: The Whys and Hows of Submitting Stories to Anthologies. He often leads workshops on writing techniques and enjoys working with other writers in his field. Weldon and his wife, Cindy, founded Smart Rhino Publications, an independent publishing company that focuses primarily on suspense and horror anthologies, including the Zippered Flesh body horror trilogy, the Assassins series (Uncommon Assassins, Insidious Assassins, and Asinine Assassins), and the anthologies Someone Wicked and A Plague of Shadows. His short story collections, Toxic Candy: Tales of Suspense, Fantasy, & Horror and Broken: Stories of Damaged Psyches, were also published by Smart Rhino. Learn more about Weldon at www.weldonburge.com.
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