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 22 OF 30: BRADY GOLDEN
22. Brady Golden presents “Neon Showgirl”
21. Darren O. Godfrey presents “Discovery of Blanks”
20. Zoe Kaplan presents “The Test”
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 “Neon Showgirl,” a bar owner witnesses murder by a “representative” of the new
pharmaceuticals laboratory.
STORY EXCERPT:
She went to
the porthole-style window in the door and peered out. Through it, she couldn’t
see much, so she pulled the door open. Across the gravel lot, the two cars were
parked side by side. Ginny strained to listen. Faintly, she thought she heard
something that could have been a foot sliding in gravel, or maybe something
bigger.
Keep your head down and
your nose out of other people’s business. The easiest way to find trouble is to
go looking for it. More words of wisdom from Richie. Maybe some he should have
listened to himself.
She could
lock up, head out the back door to her truck, and call it a night. Whatever was
going on with the journalist and whoever had come to see him was not her
business. She could keep her head down.
Instead,
she switched on the outdoor lights. Giselle Deschamps flared to life,
illuminating everything from the bar’s door to the road . . .
—Neon
Showgirl by BRADY GOLDEN
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Brady Golden lives in Oakland, California, with his wife, crossword constructor Juliana Tringali Golden. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals. On Twitter, he is @bradiation.
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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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