My fantasy/horror tale “Lost Branch of the Silver” has been accepted for the October issue of Bards and Sages Quarterly.

This is probably one of the more Lovecraftian stories I have written. Lovecraft always did such an amazing job of body-snatching stories, and that influence is felt deeply in “Lost Branch of the Silver”.

Baird worked his way down the steep slope, going to all fours in order to reduce speed. The terrain was treacherous, and he was thankful for the numerous deadfalls and twisted trees which stopped his momentum. His father was right about one thing: Baird had never seen woods like these. It was as if each tree had been spun by brutal winds, each affected in its own space and set in ways that contradicted the other trees.