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Behind the Walls.jpg (7324 bytes)"Behind the Walls" - published in Ideomancer, Volume 6, Issue 4 (Dec. 07)  READ FOR FREE

 

 

readbydawn2.jpg (22568 bytes)"Falling Stars"- published in Read by Dawn Volume 2.   Now available for purchase through Beautiful Books or Amazon UK.  North American distribution is pending sometime in the fall. 

Read a Sample from "Falling Stars" 

 

 

readbydawn.jpg (6500 bytes)"Stuck" - published in the anthology Read by Dawn,  Volume 1. (April 06).  This anthology, curated by Adele Hartley and hosted by Ramsey Campbell, commemorates the 13th annual Dead by Dawn Convention (Scotland's International Horror Film Festival).

From Ramsey Campbell's Introduction:  "The unlucky central character of Sam's Minier's 'Stuck' is plagued by nocturnal regrets and unhappy replays of her life.  Those are traps in themselves, but there's a physical one to exacerbate matters, and her escape proves more hideous than her plight."

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Read a sample of "Stuck"

 

 

likechildren.gif (8042 bytes)"Be Thee Like Children" - published in   the Ideomancer webzine (Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2006). READ FOR FREE. 

Reviews available at Live Journal and   Tangent Short Fiction Review.

 

 

"Man, God, Stone" - READ FOR FREE.  First published in the fall 04 issue of: atsoise1.jpg (8720 bytes)

 

 

bayonet.jpg (2802 bytes) "7th Period Bayonet Class" was published in the Fall 05 issue (Volume 4, Issue 3) of Ideomancer.    READ FOR FREE

Review available here

 

 

 

deathgrip_cinemasm.gif (15443 bytes)"Slasher" was first published in 2004 in Hellbound Book's Deathgrip 3: It Came From the Cinema.  The stories in this themed anthology all touch upon or are inspired by horror movies the contributors  feel are especially significant. 

READ FOR FREE  (includes Introduction from the Deathgrip 3 publication)

 

 

 

linkbanner3LBE.jpg (12371 bytes)"Reflecting House"  - published in The Three-Lobed Burning Eye  (Winter 2004 Issue).  READ FOR FREE 

 

 

 

Minier-Worm.jpg (13964 bytes)“Nothing But Worm Meat” – published in Ideomancer, Vol. 1 Issue 8 (August 2002).  READ FOR FREE

 

 

 

 

Lords.gif (75633 bytes)“Lords” – published at  Neverworlds as Story of the Month in November ’01.  READ FOR FREE

 

 

 

Art by Judith Huey

 

 

 

crimson.jpg (9115 bytes)“Quiet Flickings, Milky Darkness”  - First  published in Crimson #12 ( late 2000).  An Honorable Mention in Ellen Datlow's Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 14th Annual.   READ FOR FREE

 

 

 

dead2cover.jpg (226385 bytes) "Hammerhead" was published  in the e-anthology DEAD IN TH13TEEN FLASHES 2: BODY COUNT in October '04.  READ FOR FREE

 

 

 

 

 

Kings of the Night 3.jpg (43497 bytes)"A Birth So Cold"  was published in 2005's   Kings of the Night III.  anthology.   READ FOR FREE

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                Cover art by Mats Minnhagen

 

 

darker_than_tin_cover.jpg (87460 bytes)"Golden Shimmering" - published in Darker Than Tin, Brighter Than Sin, an angel-themed charity anthology benefitting the OWW  Scholarship Fund.   READ FOR FREE

" 'Golden Shimmering' immediately grabbed me and I wanted to read it again and again.  It's a tale close to my heart and a discovery that I'm proud to present to you." - Rabe Phillips, Editor of Darker Than Tin, Brighter Than Sin.

 

Cover art by Carol Carmen

 

 

lullabyhearsebanner2.jpg (21174 bytes)“An Assumption of Filth” – published in Lullaby Hearse  #3, Fall 2003 issue (sold out).                     READ FOR FREE

 

 

 

peepshow5.jpg (28003 bytes)“Making Her Scream” – published in Peep Show Issue #5, June 2003. READ FOR FREE

 

 

 

 

 

unbound.jpg (82201 bytes)“Game of Friends” – published in the e-anthology Ideomancer Unbound, December 2002.  AVAILABLE TO ORDER.   Free sample available

"[Tells] a good, taunt horror tale squarely in the Arkham tradition, notable for its characterization, sharp writing, and suspense."- Amy Sterling Casil, SFReader.com. 

"The characterization was excellent." - Barbara Barrett,  Tangent Online

 

 

“Uprooted” – published in the final issue of Dark Angel Rising, Winter 03/04. READ FOR FREE

 

“Intake” – published in Peridot Books, 2002 Spring/Summer issue.  READ FOR FREE

 

"The function of the imagination is not to make the strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange." - G. K. Chesterton

 

 


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