I am happy to report that my short story, The Screaming Man, has been included in Horrific Scribblings. The brainchild of L Andrew Cooper, HS is an expanding online archive of dark short fiction (and some poetry) by various authors who share the outlet’s dedication to the provocative, scary, and strange. As Andrew explains, “there are no issues like a magazine. Instead, new stories are published on a rolling basis and it has ‘Exhibits’ that feature groups of works put together because they have commonalities: themes, subgenres, image patterns, etc.”

The Screaming Man, about a man visiting his old school for the last time, is built on sentimentality. Sort of. What he doesn’t see himself doing that afternoon is stumbling across the answer to a mystery that has haunted him since childhood. Andrew says the story is about, “the ways nostalgia and memory affect time, perhaps leading to a literal monster from the past. From the beginning, Saunders peels back layers of time like onion skin, giving the story formal adventurousness mostly masked by the easygoing narrative voice.”

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