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 19 OF 30: COLIN LEONARD
19. Colin Leonard presents “The Burning Heart”
18. David Afsharirad presents “just keep walking”
17. William Meikle presents “Gateway to Oblivion”
16. Valya Dudycz Lupescu presents “The Tooth Butcher”
15. Gene O’Neill presents “Ring Rust”
14. H. Pueyo
presents “Death Republic”
13. Scotty Milder presents “Giant and Child: A Fugue”
12. Lucy Taylor presents “If You Touch Me, I Can Cry”
11. Terry Dowling presents “The Key to Mabella”
10. Christi Nogle presents “The Apartment”
9. Baba
Jide Low presents “Pretties /
Serpent”
8. Kristi Petersen Schoonover presents “February Thaw”
7. Bentley Little presents “In the Valley”
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 “The Burning Heart,” an Irish teen watches his brother’s downward spiral into
lovesick grief and the occult.
STORY EXCERPT:
We shared a room, my brother and I.
Although we were breaking into manhood, we were still only boys really, under
our father’s roof. In the summer, we preferred to sleep with the window open
for air but that would also let in the insects. I thought it was a wasp that woke
me, buzzing and biting. I swatted at my face but it wasn’t the noise of a
stinger that had caused me to wake. Sean was kneeling down by his bed, droning
low and constant. It was still deep in the night. There was a black candle
before him, jammed into a split stone, the flame long and dancing, smoke
curling toward the window. He was repeating a sentence to himself. I made out
the words fire and love . . .
—The
Burning Heart by COLIN LEONARD
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ABOUT: COLIN LEONARD
Colin Leonard lives in rural Co. Meath, Ireland,
beneath the hills from which the ancient Samhain festivals spawned Halloween.
His stories have been published in the magazines Dark Tales, Frost Zone Zine,
Fudoki, and The Harrow. His flash fiction appears in anthologies from Black
Hare Press, Breaking Rules Publishing, and Ghost Orchid Press.
More at: twitter.com/collyleonard and at his website: www.collyleonard.com.
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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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