by ryanc | Dec 14, 2017 | Pressed for Time, Short stories
This story first appeared in Curios and Conundrums: Clockwork Mutineers (October 2017) from The Mysterious Package Company. The theme of the issue was time travel. Breaking into the little girl’s bedroom was the easy part. The George Eastman House, a film conservatory...
by ryanc | Dec 14, 2017 | Pressed for Time, Short stories
This story first appeared in Curios and Conundrums: Brain Butchers (August 2017) from The Mysterious Package Company. The themes of the issue were mind control, zombies, and 1970’s Cold War Russia. I am convinced that the sphere has a sick sense of humour. It...
by ryanc | Apr 29, 2017 | It Came from the Suitcase, Short stories
When i dug the spiral-bound Durham Literary Guild from the bottom of the suitcase, it blew the dust off a long-abandoned corner of my memory. i had obviously submitted something to the publication (which ruined me, for many years, on the actual dictionary definition...
by ryanc | Mar 13, 2017 | Pressed for Time, Short stories
This story first appeared in Curios and Conundrums: Gods of Madness (April 2017) from The Mysterious Package Company. The theme of the issue was madness in Victorian England. Being stark naked, I counted my blessings that the sphere had deposited me near a small...
by ryanc | Mar 13, 2017 | Short stories
This story first appeared in Curios and Conundrums Volume 3 Issue 4 from The Mysterious Package Company I met Ignatius Polk at his urgent request just outside the gates of Elmtree Cemetery one misty morning in November. My podiatry practice had been increasingly...
by ryanc | Mar 13, 2017 | Short stories
This story first appeared in Curios and Conundrums Volume 3 Issue 3 from The Mysterious Package Company To the casual observer, Arkham was like any other seaside town. It had four churches, a university, and a sanitarium. But it’s what Arkham didn’t have that set it...
