Dear Readers,
I just started a new series of ghost stories on Amazon's Kindle
Vella. The first one, "A Sort of Homecoming" is being
published today for the Corn Moon/Harvest Moon that is this month's
full moon.
God willing, I will publish a new story every full moon with some of these being multi-part installments. Then, the plan is combine them all into a short story collection to be published on Halloween 2025.
A man returns to his grandparents' house to find his wife and
grandmother there with the news of a troubled spirit that is
disturbing the house. From closet door to creaky floor to the
basement, the man begins a hunt to face-down this terrorizing
threat.
The story's creation stems from three ideas: one, a recurring nightmare of me being trapped in my grandparents' house to discover there are secret passages and items that I don't remember ever having existed before; two, there is a challenge on Pinterest where a couple puts padlocks on their front porch gate and throw away their keys to symbolize their love; three, what if an evil spirit put a padlock on the front gate of a home that they never intended to leave?