Horror and Science Fiction
News
- Sad news from our friends at The Absent Willow Review.
I received this email this morning:
It is with a heavy heart that we announce the Absent Willow Review will be closing its doors. Our last issue will be published on October 16, two weeks before our three year anniversary. It has been an amazing run and we are honored to have worked with so many talented authors and artists. To say that this was a hard decision would be an understatement. We would also like to thank you all for your support and encouragement over the last three years. It certainly made a difference and encouraged us to keep our doors open for as long as we did.
With that being said, our last issue on October 16th will include all stories which have been accepted by us for publication. The site will remain open until December 1st.
Keep writing!
Kind Regards,
Rick & Bob
The Editors"For those of you familiar with AWR, you don't need me telling you what a great site it was with its great writing and fantastic art.
For those of you who never heard of it, get over there ASAP and check it out before it slips away into the darkness forever.
- "Dark Legacy" is up on Dark Fire.
Sometimes a place you've never visited before can bring back memories you never had...
- "Eustace" is still up on the The Absent
Willow Review.
- "Nasty Habit" was featured in Mysterical-e.
- "Computer Widow" is on Mysterical-e
As far as Melinda Coates is concerned it's either her or the computer. Too bad her husband doesn't take her seriously.
- "Surprise!" is also on Mysterical-e
Don't you just love it when a plan comes together? Yeah, well, that's not what this story is about.
- "The Crawlspace" was featured in the March issue of SNM
Horror Magazine
Home improvement projects always seem to get out of hand, don't they?
- "Exit Left" can be found on The
Absent Willow Review.
Norris Lambert was a powerful man, or so he thought till he found himself in the parking garage from Hell.
- "Disconnected" is on Dark Fire Fiction.
Go anywhere you want instantly, see without being seen - Sound great? Nah, not so much.
- "Gut Feeling" is up on The
Absent Willow Review archives.
Sometimes you know in your gut something's wrong, even if no one else believes you.
- "Signal to Noise" was featured in Aoife's Kiss Issue 31, December
2009.
You can still get a copy at the Genre MallRebecca Lundgren gets to chose her own reality. Sounds too good to be true and it is.
Credits
- Aofe's Kiss
- Dark Fire Fiction
- Galaxy ezine
- Millenium Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Mysterical-e
- Rocket Stories!
- Shadowkeep
- SNM Horror Magazine
- The Absent Willow Review
- The Science Fiction Museum
About Me
My name is Curt Jeffreys and I suppose I'm a horror writer. I say 'suppose'
since that is where my dark side so often leads me. But labels are so
constricting, don't you think? Not to mention usually inaccurate. I write what I
feel like writing when I feel like writing it. Most often it's horror but
sometimes it's science-fiction, other times crime or mystery. If a label must be
applied -- and people do love their labels, don't they? -- then I prefer the
label 'Speculative Fiction Writer.' After all, fiction is speculative by its
very definition. If it weren't it would be non-fiction, wouldn't it? And when it
comes down to it, doesn't speculation boil down to one simple question -- 'What
If?'
For example:
- Science-Fiction -
What if a rocket ship could travel faster than light?
- Horror -
What if ghosts were real?
- Historical -
What if you had been in Rome when Nero played his fiddle?
- Romance -
What if the handsome young man with the bulging muscles seduced the blushing young virgin with the heaving bosom?
- Historical Romance -
What if the handsome young man with the bulging muscles seduced the blushing young virgin with the heaving bosom while Nero played his fiddle?
So, feel free to take a look around, see if there's something you like. Check out the Stories links for a sample of some of my work. Enjoy!
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