Fedowar Press has released their Holiday Horrors: Volume I, containing (you guessed it!) seven horror holiday stories! It contains my weird fiction tale, “Not Another Blue Christmas”!
A dark twist on the Hallmark holiday movie trope, “Not Another Blue Christmas” focuses on a socialite who travels home for the holidays, but when her car breaks down along the way she finds herself in a small town with holds weird horrors that she couldn’t have imagined.
Tales From Between’s first issue of Tales From Between has been released today! It free to read and includes fiction from amazing authors, as well as an author interview, an Answer the Question segment with several authors, and a You Should Read article. It includes my own spec-fic New Years Eve story, “In the Remnants”!
Read on Tales From Between’s website.
Purchase ($1!) an eBook copy on their Patreon.
The third installment of the Books of Horror: Community Anthology has been released! Containing nearly 600 pages brimming with horror from the talented members of Books of Horror group.
It includes my weird tale, “The Revival Troupe”, a story about a boyfriend who goes to see his girlfriend play for the first time with a string orchestra, the Revival Troupe, and what he’s audience to is nothing he could imagine.
Purchase now on Amazon!
Prompt: It’s been over an hour since you were bit, and you still haven’t turned into a zombie. You’ve also been oddly nonchalant about the whole thing. Your group is starting to suspect you weren’t human to begin with.
Continue reading Writing Prompt #149 — Some Secrets Are Better Left Unsaid
Prompt: You’re no stranger to feeling bouts of deep sadness with seemingly no trigger or cause. One particularly bad day, you notice the skin over your heart is cracked. Following your discovery, the condition worsens.
Continue reading Writing Prompt #144 — Scar Submersion
Ghost Orchid Press has released their anthology THE DEEP today! Containing a wide-variety of deep sea (sometimes strange) horrors from dozens of authors, including my weird tale, “Orphaned By Birth.”
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Prompt: Your boss is firing you, it seems that they don’t appreciate you befriending the creatures they keep in the science facility, don’t want you to have any attachments they said. Last day of the job you decide that you might as well let your friends out of their cages.
Continue reading Writing Prompt #139 — Rummaged Within
My quiet weird fiction story, “As Whole as I’ll Ever Be” has been published by Timber Ghost Press on their website. It can be read for free.
Fun fact: this story’s the sequel to the story, “Misplaced Trust.” Originally published in my second collection Who Spoke on the Other Side, then revised and reprinted by Sirens Call Publication (can be read for free, too).
My folk/weird horror story, originally published in Rejected: A Multi-Genre Fundraising Anthology (edited by Erin Crocker) and no longer in-print, “Time Stops in the Smoke” has been reprinted by Ladies of the Fright.
It has been revised since it’s initial publishing, and it’s available for free to read on their website.
As of this writing, there have been over 125 writing prompts posted to the website, available for free to anyone who wants to read them. Now, the first hundred stories have been compiled into genre-specific collections, and made so they can be read on your preferred device. Mainly, this was done this for convenience sake.
All the stories have been revised, and most formats (.mobi, .epub, and .pdf) are available for free to anyone who wants them (if there’s a format you prefer that’s not available, please reach out through email and I’ll send it over).
You can find them below, and if you want to throw down a dollar or two for them, feel free to do so through my Ko-Fi.
Thank you to everyone whose read and supported any of my work, and even bigger thank you to anyone who chooses to donate.
Continue reading Writing Prompt (1-100) Collections Out Now — Download For Free!
Micah Castle 