My newest horror short, "Amazing, Incredible Sea Mongrels," will be in the April issue of Penumbra Magazine.
Remember those ads in the back of the comic books? Exploding cigarettes, fake dog poo, amazing sea mongrels? A little fishbowl of brine shrimp seems harmless enough, but sometimes nostalgia can be deadly.
The story was inspired by a news photo of a creepy-crawlie brought to the surface as it clung to a deep-sea submersible. Somehow, my mind jumped to the old ads in the back of the comics and a story was born!
If I had to write my story creation process as a formula it would be:
healthy dose of imagination + dash of paranoia + some outside stimuli (like a photo)
A nice mathematical representation of my story-creation process!
And speaking of story creation, I'm currently in the editing phase on my latest project, an alternate-history horror short . . . with zombies, of course! I absolutely hated history when I was in school, but I love alternate history--and everything's better with zombies!
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