Happy Thanksgiving to my American readers! It’s certainly been a busy few weeks. I went on vacation the week of Halloween, and almost as soon as I got back, I fell really ill. I was definitely not a happy camper for a while there. Fortunately, I’m doing much better. Busy as always, but not feeling like I’m going to die from being sick anymore. I also have some pretty exciting news: one of my short stories, “Patient Zero”, was published in the Darkness Wired Anthology from Notch Publishing House.
For this anthology, writers were given the pick of several prompts involving a mixture of modern technology, old gods, and Lovecraftian mythos. With each story covering a different year, Darkness Wired spans fifty years from 2020 to 2070–a future that’s just around the corner. The result: a collection of ten dark science fiction/horror stories that will entertain you and make you think.
In “Patient Zero”, the first known sufferer of a new disease called Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Agressiva, Maria Labeouf-Garcia, is slowly driven mad by hallucinations. At least, she thinks they are hallucinations. The truth is far beyond her comprehension, but will Maria discover it before it’s too late?
Other authors in the Darkness Wired Anthology are Wren Cavanagh from The Last Flag and Junior Sokolov from Honeycomb: Revelations (co-author).
“Patient Zero” is my first short story to be published–“Postmortem” was long-listed for a contest but never published–so this is both an exciting and nerve-racking development for me. Hopefully, though, it will not be my last.
For more information on the Darkness Wired Anthology and to look out for future anthologies and contests, be sure to check out Notch Publishing House’s website. If you want to support some fellow writers and read the anthology for yourself, you can borrow it on Kindle Unlimited or buy it for $4.99 on Amazon.
Designed by Stephanie Hoogstad circa 2011
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