Hey, Sis by Tim Hoelscher brings sibling rivalry from beyond the grave. A clever treatment of an horrific situation. As she emerges from this safe-haven however, you realise who she was imagining fighting and who remains to be defeated. This is not what you expect it to be at first as it takes you into a child’s fantasy world. The first story this week in Trembling With Fear is Flight of Fancy from Robyn O’Sullivan. Due for release in April, I’d highly recommend.
It turned out to be a great occult-tinged coming-of-age tale and whilst my first read of Tim’s, will most definitely not be my last. I broke up my reads recently to tackle Wasps in the Ice Cream by Tim McGregor ahead of a podcast recording. (She actually did a double with her short story, A Gathering at the Mountain from the anthology, The Bad Book) Cindy’s account has deservedly made it onto the Final Ballot. Special congratulations to Heather and Steve Vassallo at the still relatively new Brigids Gate Press who included Cindy O’Quinn’s non-fiction tribute to her late husband, ‘One and Done’, as a bonus feature of Were Tales: A Shapeshifter Anthology. I can see the novel and the poetry categories being hard fought. I cast my votes and it was lovely to see some choices get through.
Many congratulations here to all those who made it through to the Bram Stoker Award nominations. Others have suffered – and are suffering – far worse. It’s nothing major in the grand scheme of things. We’re stuck with scaffolding though and waiting for that to go. I thought I’d lose more tiles as our roof still hadn’t been fixed since November’s storm but the roofers appeared on Monday and finally put it to rights. Humour is also welcome!īeen a bit of a week with the storms hitting the shores of the UK, we’ve had three pretty much on the trot and although it’s sort of quietened down a bit, it’s still wet and windy. Nor are we averse to a touch of noir or a dark thriller. Submissions don’t have to be horror, they can be dark sci-fi or fantasy or some other aspect of the speculative fiction field. We publish both new and established writers with many becoming familiar faces and being an ongoing open market, we are always after material. Welcome back to Trembling with Fear, our online flash zine.
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