ANNOUNCING: I’m posting all contributors, one-a-day, to reveal the Table of Contents for +Horror Library+ Volume 7, to be published by Dark Moon Books on March 1, 2022!
DAY 6 OF 30: REX BURROWS
6. Rex
Burrows presents
“Skandalopetra”
5. Alex
Woodroe presents “Abandon”
4. Cody
Goodfellow presents “Hand of
Glory”
3. Natalia Theodoridou presents “The Mouth”
2. Jo Kaplan presents “Her. House.”
1. Michael Harris Cohen presents “Never Better”
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In “Skandalopetra,” an immigrant Greek fisherman follows the “old ways” to
collect deep-water sponges, which proves an increasing mystery to his
well-meaning grandson.
STORY EXCERPT:
…A stream of bubbles exits Yorgos’s
nostrils and begins a long, meandering journey back to the surface. Carbon
dioxide has been steadily building in his bloodstream, and on cue, a mild spasm
seizes his diaphragm. This is a persuasive warning sign of impending
asphyxiation, but Yorgos pays it no mind. Even in the blank sameness of the
ocean’s twilight zone, a diver of his gifts knows how to keep track of his
depth. He’s just passed a key threshold, the point at which salinity and
pressure and darkness come into proper alignment to wake the skandalopetra.
It begins with a flickering greenish
light that shines first from one carved rune, then another, then across full
sequences of characters. Soon, the glow steadies and spreads across the entire
surface of the stone. A warm tingling spreads throughout Yorgos’s body as it
begins to coax his anatomy into a more suitable configuration…
—Skandalopetra
by REX BURROWS
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ABOUT: REX BURROWS
Rex Burrows is a writer and environmental microbiologist. He’s lived in lots of
different places, most recently Washington, DC. His short fiction has appeared
in Weird Horror Magazine.
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AVAILABLE HERE!:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Horror-Library-7-Eric-Guignard/dp/1949491390/
Publisher’s Page: http://www.darkmoonbooks.com/Horror_Library_7.html
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