Hindered Souls: Dark Tales for Dark Nights, page 17
My grandmother kissed me on the cheek and closed the door behind me. The streetlights flickered, taking command of the streets with a desolate honesty. As I pushed away on my bike, I looked back. My grandfather was no longer on the porch. My grandmother took her place in the window and waved.
I smiled dismally as I pedaled away. I would’ve never thought that the last time I would see Old-Timer’s widow alive.
Author Biographies
M.R. Tapia—Degeneration-X; Diamonds In The Midnight; Old Timer’s
M.R. Tapia has had his short stories appear in Bandwagon Magazine, Schlock Webzine, Deadman’s Tome, and Empty Sink Publishing. He is also the editor for the Hindered Souls anthology. His novel ‘Sugar Skulls’ is currently in the editing process. He writes out of Northern Colorado.
Gary Buller—Shelf Life
Gary Buller is an author from Manchester England where he lives with his long suffering partner Lisa, and his daughter Holly. He is a huge fan of all things macabre and loves a tale with a twist. His works have appeared in Deadman’s Tome and Sanitarium Magazine. His short story ‘Final Course’ will appear in the CCQ Anthology in 2017.
Jeremy Joseph Light—Burial Lovers
Jeremy Joseph Light is an editor at two literary journals. His work has been published by Flash Fiction Magazine and is forthcoming in Apocrypha & Abstractions. He writes dark flash fiction and short stories. He has a horror novella in the works.
Marie Anderson—Damaged Goods; Between Hits
Marie Anderson is a married mother of three from La Grange, IL. During the school year, she helps supervise and entertain 500 grade school children during their lunch recess. She is the editor and publisher of the multi-author anthology, ‘The Wrong Coat’ (createspace/amazon/2016). Her short stories have appeared in Brain Child, St. Anthony Messenger, Woman's World, Morpheus Tales, Downstate Story, and Writer's Digest. In 2012, she was a finalist in the annual Great American Think-Off essay/debate competition.
Christine Makepeace—Magic Hour
Christine Makepeace is a New Englander by birth, a New Yorker by choice, and an Austinite by happenstance. She writes stories about people, places, and things; she likes her subject matter just as dark as she likes her coffee. She is inspired by movies, TV, and of course books. Her list of works can be found at christinemakepeace.com.
Craig Bullock—Baby Bird
Craig Bullock has had his works appear in Box of Bizarro, and 9 Tales At the World’s End. He has been writing for two years and draws inspiration from D.G. Jones, Sydney Knight, Matt Shaw and Rob Harris. He works with youth with behavioral issues. He writes out of the United Kingdom where he lives with his family.
Kevin M. Folliard—Cornstalk
Kevin M. Folliard has a degree in English and Creative Writing from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is also a full time writing advisor for the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) Effective Writing Center. His works have appeared in Sanitarium Magazine, Wax & Wane Anthology, Bumps in the Road Anthology, and Out of the Cave Anthology.
Joseph Benedict—Just What You Need
Joseph Benedict has had his works appear in Under the Bed, and Theme of Absence. He also has works scheduled to appear in 9 Tales Told in the Dark, Kzine, and the Inwood Indiana Press, all in 2016. He writes out of Ypsilanti, Michigan.
Raven McAllister—With the Devil in Your Eyes
Raven McAllister has been writing horror fiction for twenty years, and is the author of Arsenic Pills: Stories, and The Small Hours series. He is a licensed psychotherapist originally hailing from a mostly habitable grove of gnarled pines in southwest Louisiana.
Robert Allen Lupton—Treehouse; Grapes Of Humanity
Robert Allen Lupton is retired and lives in New Mexico with his wife, Sally, where they are commercial hot air balloon pilots. Robert runs and writes every day, but not necessarily in that order. He has published several short stories, most recently published or scheduled for publication this year are stores included the anthologies, Uncommon Origins, Keeping Pace With Eternity, Twelve Days, and Potter’s Field Six. Visit his author’s page on Amazon. His story, The Long Jump, won an honorable mention from Galaxy Press in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future competition.
Theresa Braun—While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Theresa Braun was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and has carried some of that hardiness with her to South Florida where she currently resides. She enjoys delving into creative writing, painting, photography and even bouts of ghost hunting. Perhaps growing up in a haunted house in Winona, Minnesota is to blame. Traveling as often as possible is one of her passions—in fact, her latest adventure took her to Romania for a horror writers’ workshop where she followed in the steps of Vlad the Impaler. She writes horror fiction and blogs for horror websites; her latest short story ‘Shout at the Devil’ appears in Under the Bed Magazine.
Jeff Dosser—Movie Time
Jeff Dosser has a background in software development and in police work, making him no stranger to horror. His works have appeared in Bewildering Stories and Pulp Fiction Magazine. He has works scheduled to appear in August at Shotgun Honey as well as the fall issues of Yellow Mama and Down In The Dirt magazines.
Bekki Pate—The Nightmare
Bekki Pate was born in Nottingham and currently lives in Wolverhampton with her partner and ten month old daughter. She is the author of horror novels The Willow Tree and The Shadow Beneath, and the short story collection Into the Dark. She has also recently had a number of short stories accepted into anthologies due to come out in 2016. Bekki is always writing – whether it is short stories or full-length novels, and later in 2016 she will be releasing her third novel – The Pale Man. Along with spending time with her daughter and partner, Bekki is an avid reader, her favourite authors being Stephen King, Elizabeth Kostova and Richard Laymon.
William Marchese—Tonight Forever
William Marchese works "the day job" in lower Manhattan, finding time throughout the day to get his writing career going. He is currently an affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association. You can follow him on Twitter here: @Wcmarchese Follow his website at www.wcmarchese.com
Wondra Vanian—Rose
Wondra Vanian is a Michigan native who moved to Wales, in the United Kingdom, to marry the love of her life and raise an army of four-legged furbabies. She left her job working for The Man in 2014, after earning a BA in English Language and Literature, and is currently focusing on her love of writing. Her short horror stories have appeared in The Catacombs: Through the Keyhole. Her short story ''Halloween Night'', was named a Notable Contender for the Bristol Short Story Prize in 2015 and another, ''It Would Be a Waste'', was shortlisted for this year's Twisted Tales: Flash Fiction Competition.
Mileva Anastasiadou—Autumn Leaves In Flames
Mileva Anastasiadou is a neurologist, living and working in Athens, Greece. Her work can be found in Ofi press magazine, Infective Ink, Molotov Cocktail, Foliate Oak, HFC journal, Down in the Dirt, Minus paper, Massacre, Pendora, Maudlin house, Menacing Hedge, Scarlet Leaf Review, Nebula Rift, and soon in the Wolfian, AntipodeanSF, Big Echo:Critical SF, Blood and Thunder:Musings on the Art of Medicine, and the Fear of Monkeys. https://www.facebook.com/milevaanastasiadou/
Gareth Gray—Ashes
Gareth Gray is an up and coming Northern Irish author, writing primarily in the field of science fiction and horror. He has received an honourable mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future competition in 2015, and his work has also been published by Robocup Press in their anthology Revenge and can be seen in the upcoming anthology from Dark Chapter Press Kids Vol.2. He is currently working on his first full length sci-fi/ horror novel entitled Outside.
DJ Tyrer—Boufonoula
DJ Tyrer is the person behind Atlantean Publishing and has been widely published in anthologies and magazines around the world, such as Chilling Horror Short Stories (Flame Tree), State of Horror: Illinois (Charon Coin Press), Steampunk Cthulhu (Chaosium), Tales of the Black Arts (Hazardous Press), Ill-considered Expeditions (April Moon Books), and Sorcery & Sanctity: A Homage to Arthur Machen (Hieroglyphics Press), and in addition, has a novella available in paperback and on the Kindle, The Yellow House (Dunhams Manor). DJ Tyrer's website is at http://djtyrer.blogspot.co.uk/ The Atlantean Publishing website is at http://atlanteanpublishing.blogspot.co.uk/
Sarah Gribble—Beast
Sarah Gribble physically resides somewhere in Ohio, but where her mind resides depends on the day. She writes sometimes. She bangs her head against the wall other times. When she’s not engaged in either of those activities, she is trying to satisfy the intense attention requirements of a houseful of animals and one patient husband. She enjoys things most other authors like, namely reading, people watching, and procrastinating.
Kristyl Gravina—Your Own Worst Nightmare
Kristyl Gravina is from Malta. Her work has been published in poetry anthologies by Lost Tower Publications and has also appeared in The Literary Hatchet, Down in the Dirt and Jitter magazines.
Brian Hamilton—Sideways Glances
Brian Hamilton is a resident of Philadelphia and an author of multiple horror short story.
M.R. Tapia, Hindered Souls: Dark Tales for Dark Nights
