A woman feels herself being watched, at first in quietly uncomfortable ways and then in horrifically terrifying ways. This is a delightfully creepy story full of paranoia and dread, playing with themes…
Category: Story a Day 2022
“Tiny Bones Beneath Their Feet” by Betty Rocksteady
A representative of a feral cat rescue group visits an unusual colony of cats and their reclusive caretaker. This is a dark and twisty little story; it didn’t go quite where I…
“It’s Easy to Shoot a Dog” by Maria Haskins
A girl and her dog return to a witch’s forest cottage where she made a dangerous bargain ten years before. A fairy-tale-like story that pulls together a few of Haskins’ favorite themes…
“The Guitar Hero” by Maria Haskins
The surviving members of a rock band attempt to exorcise an entity from one of their heroes. This story has an interesting spin on the typical possession story; it plays with the…
“And You Shall Sing to Me a Deeper Song” by Maria Haskins
A cyborg soldier encounters a peaceful village in peril in a post-apocalyptic landscape. There are some interesting ideas in this story – the enhanced “singers” as a weapon, the robot war, the…
“The Further Adventures of the Invisible Man” by Karen Joy Fowler
A boy takes subtle revenge on his bully with the help of his mother and her misfit friends. This is an enjoyable story for characterization and voice; not quite what I was…
“No One Really Lives Alone” by Lesley Hart Gunn
Advice is offered to a demon summoner when an exorcist arrives at her door. This playful story turns poignant and dark as it goes on, and the voice of the narrator and…
“Milagroso” by Isabel Yap
A man who works for a company that produces artificial food goes to a festival in his home town where a saint’s statue miraculously generates vast quantities of natural food. This story…
“The Uncharted” by Benjamin Percy
When a team mapping an Alaskan wilderness area disappear, a manager at a Google-like company and a group of friends who operate an adventure YouTube channel go looking for them, discovering that…
“The Big Rock Candy Mountain” by Andy Duncan
A hobo reluctantly leaves the paradise of the Big Rock Candy Mountain, with its cigarette trees and fountains of stew, and rediscovers the world that he left behind. “Big Rock Candy Mountain”…