Keeping the Special Guest ball rolling is our favorite femme fatale, returning to Solarcide’s pages to take a few more heads.
Nikki Guerlain‘s dark, neo-gothic flash fiction piece, The Hot House, was used to launch Phantasmagorium‘s excellent Weekly Offering short story feature back at the start of May.
This is not one for the crypt though. If you missed it at Phanta, you can now read it here.
Slit Your Wrists magazine’s enigmatic editor, Mr Laurance Kitts, is the newest special guest author at Solarcide!
Laurance’s poetry collection, See You In Heaven, is to be released soon. The collection is a reflection upon a darker period in the author’s past, a time when emotions were bare and knives were sharp.
Here, he gives us a glimpse inside, a preview of what is to come.
Recently I was asked to be the guest judge for the Litreactor forum’s monthly Flash Me! competition. This competition is run by Chester Pane, who is a good egg, and who kindly invited me to select my favorite flash fiction stories (all under 1000 words) from the month’s submissions and put them to the public vote.
The War, by Lisa McCormack, a tense piece of characterful realism, came third in the polls. You can read that story here.
Afterlife Mixer, by Daniel Gozales, came in at second in the votes. This bizarro adventure is classic, surreal Gonzales. Read it here.
Fritz Wolfe won the poll with his creepy little sci-fi number, Jack?. Where is Jack?, you might ask. Well don’t you worry, that story will be around someplace, sometime.
Flash Me! is ongoing, this month tied into Litreactor’s own flash fiction competition and prompt. Eggstatic about flash? Then get over there.
Good stuff. Rock on, folks.
Solarcide author Nathan Pettigrew takes a day off from writing his insanely good interviews to blow us away with his new short story, Roland The Conqueror.
Written during Nathan’s recent ‘intensive’ class with the prolific Stephen Graham Jones, this story is possibly his darkest and most deadly work yet. In fitting fashion, it now has a home at the prestigious multimedia site, DarkMedia.
Read it here, if you dare.
We kick off the special guest content for May with an exciting follow-up to our interview with bizarro author Tony Rauch.
My Life In A Brutalist Concrete Bunker is a creepy little look inside the world of his new short story collection, As I Floated In The Jar, which will be out soon.
Join Tony in the bunker, here.
Surreal Grotesque, the brand new horror magazine from our good buddy Danny Gonzales, is now live.
You can read the first issue, for free, by visiting this page here.
The issue features work by several past Solarcide special guests, such as Bradley Sands, Richard Thomas, and Dakota Taylor.
You should definitely check it out.
Another special guest interview for April, this time with jazz-handed bizarro short story author, Tony Rauch.
Tony writes very strange stuff. His last two collections were released by notable bizarro publishers, Eraserhead Press. He chats to Solarcide about his writing, and gives a teaser for his newest, upcoming collection.
You can read more here.
