Ron Collins is an award-winning science fiction and fantasy author with around thirty years of writing under his belt. His book in the Write Stuff StoryBundle is On Being (And Becoming Again!) A Writer—a collection of eight essays about what it means to live a creative life, written during a time when Ron was finding…
Darcy Pattison has been writing and publishing children’s books for decades. She’s published over seventy books, both fiction and nonfiction, and has earned starred reviews and a shelf full of awards. About fifteen years ago, she attended a Master Class with Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith, which inspired her to launch her own…
In “Whispers of the Drowned,” Charles Eugene Anderson plunges readers into a 1941 Atlantic convoy, where a mysterious artifact recovered from the sea carries voices—and vengeance—far older than the war. Interview Questions Did a real place or moment inspire part of your story? Hi Jamie. It’s always good to talk with you. [Jamie is the…
In “Above Us, Hell,” Alicia Cay sends a treasure hunter and his grandfather into the Caribbean deep, where a WWII submarine has risen from the Cayman Trench—and brought its ghosts with it. What they find below the surface is older, stranger, and far more dangerous than sunken treasure. Interview Questions Did a real place or…
In “Final Walkthrough,” Lou J. Berger sends a man back to his family’s old farmhouse to settle an estate—and settle a score with the past. What begins as a quiet homecoming becomes something far darker, as the pond behind the house gives up secrets that should have stayed buried. Interview Questions Did a real place…
When bone witch Nariah Boyd is called to a haunted parking lot on the city’s edge, she expects another ghost, another forgotten dead. What she finds instead is a nest—of bone, of memory, of sorrow so vast it reshapes the world around it. As a mother spirit stirs in the marsh, Nariah must reach deep…
When Annie Griffith visits her great-uncle’s mountain home, she discovers that the nearby creek is more than just lively—it’s crying out for help, and someone needs to listen. Interview Questions Did a real place or moment inspire part of your story? There was a big, blocky rock with what looked like a sink on top…
In Meyari McFarland’s “Echoes of a Forgotten Day,” Marie sets out alone on a storm-battered hike along the Oregon coast, determined to honor a promise made to friends. But Elakha Bay is more than just a remote, haunted stretch of shoreline—it’s a place where the past lingers, ghosts walk, and ancient tragedies refuse to stay…
In “The Wind Witch of Weird Water Harbour,” Steve Vernon spins a salt-soaked fable of pride, punishment, and the price of a bargain struck with forces older than the sea. When Captain Donny Parsons accepts a leather cord with three knots of captured wind from Gusty Annie—the Wind Witch—he sets in motion a storm that…
When Harwood is pulled beneath the waves by the cursed ship Merry Mermaid, he must face not only the monstrous Milady who rules the abyss, but the truth of what it means to love the sea. Interview Questions Did a real place or moment inspire part of your story? The real person who inspired this…
