by Jude Mire | Mar 27, 2023 | Horror, Story
Darren wished he had brought a better coat as he followed Whitney along the edge of the reservoir. She was out on the ice, paralleling him, but he didn’t trust it enough to join her. She skated on flat feet, doing little running bits and then sliding along as...
by Jude Mire | Jan 18, 2021 | Horror, Story
The night sky was clear when the last snow fell. Vern had been inside, reloading the greenbar paper into the printers, when Joe called for him to come look outside. “Vern! Get out here! You gotta see this!” He didn’t go. There were fourteen printers to switch and he...
by Jude Mire | Feb 2, 2020 | Horror, Story
“Jimmy, I hear you lock your sister up in a barn every day. Is that true?” I turned around and squinted into the back-lit silhouette of Robin West. “That’s a lie. I only lock her up on school days.” She had a nice shape, but the light from above was hurting my eyes so...
by Jude Mire | Oct 30, 2019 | Horror, Story
Author’s Note:One of the themes for our Cult Fiction horror shows I used to run was ‘Box of Shadows’. The stories had to be horror and some sort of evil box had to be central to the story. I wrote my story ‘HorseHammer’ and the final...
by Jude Mire | Oct 17, 2019 | Horror, Story
Author’s Note:I wrote this story years ago as an entry for a Twilight Tales anthology called ‘The Book of Dead Things’. It was accepted, and was going to be published, but a conversation with the editors revealed that they were disappointed that...
by Jude Mire | Oct 2, 2019 | Horror, Short
Mary Alice Eckerson was a natural born saleswoman. As a child she’d run a lemonade stand. It wasn’t enough for her so she added a line of cupcakes (made by her mother) and baseball cards (stolen from her brother). From Kool-aid to cars to condos, she built a career...