Weird Stories: Colorado

I spent my post doc years (early 2010's) working in Colorado, at a Federal DOE facility in Golden, until a weak economy and tripe mismanagement scuttled the funding. Those were amongst the best years of my life and I continue to regret my absence. COVID already prevented my scheduled summer visit and I suspect 2021 won't be any better :( Feeling nostalgic and melancholic, and accomplishing little of substance in spite of my efforts thru lockdown, I opted to bundle all of my (current) Colorado fiction into a single volume.

Included are seven unique stories that explore different spaces and times: "Wendigos" and "The Jeffreys" invoke the vastness of Colorado's eastern plains & western plateaus; "Pawnee Buttes" and "Dog Walks Ahead" explore the evils of the mundane, everyday sort; "The Girl In The Window" and "Blue Beelzebub" - controversial & triggery entries - investigate the antics of a magic sex cult inspired by the works of Aleister Crowley; whilest "Please Come Back" offers a tormented journey through the state as it transforms into a post-USA dystopia.

Horror and its like motivates my work, except at flourishes here and there, it's the subtle kind of horror, "the blink and you'll miss it" kind of horror. If you came for gore, turn around. Oh, you'll find gay wendigos, ghost-dogs and unspeakable town histories, alien invasions and abductions, creepy cults and their hideous ties to NAZI scumbags, and chilling yet familiar evils humans perpetrate upon each other. All the good stuff....