Once upon a Dead Gull

What if the most frightening moment isn't seeing the impossible—but realizing it has been there all along?

A man carries roses home to ask forgiveness for something that cannot be undone.

An uncle frightens two girls with a made-up monster beneath an old country bridge—until something begins moving toward them.

A peculiar young woman remembers cemeteries, wildflowers, family and the terrible day when everything changed.

A ringing telephone pushes a feverish mind toward obsession.

And two voices, separated by something darker than death, ask whether we ever truly know another human being.

In Once Upon a Dead Gull, Janna Hill blends Southern Gothic atmosphere, psychological horror, paranormal fiction, dark humor and haunting verse into a collection where everyday life repeatedly brushes against the inexplicable.

These are stories of guilt and grief, anger and memory, death and whatever may—or may not—wait beyond it.

The title promises a dead gull.

The stories promise something considerably stranger.

Reality is comfortable right up until the moment it isn't.