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Ghost Camera

“That’s what we always fear the most: the things we can’t see, and the things we don’t yet understand.” Author: Darcy Coates I’m a novel girly, so usually I don’t find myself attracted to short story collections, even those by a favorite author. I came to Ghost Camera more through false advertising than anything else. It’s not clear that Ghost Camera is a novella followed by seven other short stories and one other novella. Normally, I’d be mad, but I actually loved this collection and all of the stories. The signature tale from which the collection derives its name concerns two [...]

2025-11-24T19:05:07-07:00November 24th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , |

One Beautiful Year of Normal

“We do not remember days; we remember moments.” – Pavese Author: Sandra K. Griffith August Caine is an escape artist. Her mother’s silent, steady paranoia, her insistence that August’s father’s killer was after them, kept them moving from place to place, living as ghosts with no connection, no normalcy, and nothing but fear and secrecy. Now, as an adult residing in Paris under a fake name, caring for her mother at an institution, August reflects on the only normal year of her life, the year when she stayed with her Aunt Helen. When there was love. When there were voices, and [...]

2025-11-24T15:50:28-07:00November 24th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , |

When the Wolf Comes Home

“Love is a shape-shifting monster . . .a werewolf with a bottomless stomach.” Author: Nat Cassidy At the end of her work shift, Jess accidentally stabs her hand with a needle left in a vomit spattered bathroom. Now, her mind is calculating all the horrifying possibilities, frantically searching through Google, trying to find out if it’s too late to see a doctor. In the middle of her panic, she meets a young boy, hiding outside her apartment in the woods. She saves the boy from his naked, malevolent father and then, shortly thereafter, from a powerful attack on the complex by a [...]

2025-11-24T13:16:28-07:00November 24th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , , , |
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