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| Four tales for April! |
Therefore, I bring you four short stories in honor of that old holiday. Two were written years before, and I have updated them for this use. Two are brand new. Like in October, I will share a link to my fiction site, called Shadows Lengthen, and each week's featured tale will be there. While you're there, please read the other stories on that site if you're interested.
Monsters are one thing, of course, and the last stories I shared had four creatures: a vampire, a werewolf, a witch, and a thing that lurked in a pond (I’m not even sure what it was). This month’s tales are a little different. There are still some scares for you, I hope, but there is a more reflective piece as well, this time.
First up is Mother Mary: Haunted by a strained relationship with his mother and his father's mysterious death, a young lawyer receives a cryptic call drawing him home only to uncover unsettling family secrets that will change his life, one way or another.
Week two: A man and his scythe: a timeless dance under the sun, where the rhythm of the blade unearths memories of a life lived and years passed, in The Mower.
Next, in a silent world, a survivor and a mysterious guide walk among the destruction of the end of all things. What remains when humanity is gone? Only the stars and the echo of a love born in the face of total loneliness. The story is called—perhaps fittingly—Ruin.
Finally, three missing arcane books, a mad monk, a museum tour and a forbidding ancient ritual. What happens when the wrong person learns the secrets that bring about the chaos of a demonic power? Find out in The Ludwig Collection.
If tales of terror are not your thing, I will resume weekly essays in May. In the meantime, feel free to catch up on the previous essays as well. There are a few years' worth on the DRO blog. I hope you will find them entertaining, thought-provoking, and mind-opening, as usual.
As always, thanks for reading and coming back each week for more!
