Sudden Fictions
Host: Kristin Kirby is a Southwest writer and screenwriter whose short stories have appeared in the anthology Negative Space 2: A Return to Survival Horror, MYTHIC magazine, The Overcast podcast, the Sudden Fictions podcast, 365tomorrows, SERIAL magazine, and other publications. I’m also honored that my short story “Meat” was on the preliminary finalist ballot for the 2023 Bram Stoker Awards. My first collection of short stories will be published by Unnerving Books in January 2025.
info_outline Episode 86: "Silent Rooms" by Lucretia StanhopeSudden Fictions
Host: Lucretia Stanhope, a neurodiverse, relentlessly optimistic chronic illness warrior with less grace than determination, navigates her crone stage in a quaint Midwest town surrounded by cornfields. Amidst enduring medical trials that could rival horror stories, her pen never rests. When not lost in the wonderful lands of her imagination, she finds solace in doting on her three chihuahuas and her endlessly patient husband.
info_outline Episode 85: "Waiting" by Bill KirtonSudden Fictions
Host: Bill Kirton was born in Plymouth, England a long time ago but has lived most of his life in Scotland. He has written stage and radio plays, songs and sketches for revues, flash fiction, short stories, novels, stories for children and books aimed at helping students to write effective academic essays and dissertations and get the most out of university and work. Dr. Kirton has been a university lecturer, actor, director, TV presenter, visiting professor and artist at the University of Rhode Island, spent a few years as a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow in universities in...
info_outline Episode 84: "Silence is Golden" by Wicker StoneSudden Fictions
Host: Wicker Stone is an avid reader and writer of everything horror. He's been in several anthologies, magazines, and this Podcast. He's currently trying to find a home for his first novel. In the mean time, he's plugging away on two other novels and a short story collection. He lives in central Maine.
info_outline Episode 83: "The White Silence" by EM OteroSudden Fictions
Host: EM Otero is a Puerto Rican author and lover of all things weird. When he isn’t writing, he is busy being a husband and father. While working outside or hiking, he loves to take pictures of plants, insects, and anything else he finds interesting or strange. He loves showing his daughter and wife the curious things in nature. His writing is inspired by our weird world, robot anime, horror stories, and science.
info_outline Episode 82: "The Stranger" by Lori D'AngeloSudden Fictions
Host: Lori D'Angelo is a grant recipient from the Elizabeth George Foundation, a fellow at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts, and an alumna of the Community of Writers. She holds an MA from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and an MFA from West Virginia University. Her work has appeared in various literary journals including BULL, Gargoyle, Drunken Boat, Moon City Review, and Rejection Letters. Her first book, a collection called The Monsters Are Here, is forthcoming from ELJ Editions.
info_outline Episode 81: "An Appointment with Madame Cauchemar" by Mia DaliaSudden Fictions
Host: Mia Dalia is an internationally published, CWA-nominated author of all things fantastic, thrilling, scary, and strange. Her short stories of horror, noir, science fiction, mystery, crime, humor, and more have been featured in a variety of anthologies, magazines, literary journals, online, and adapted for narrative podcasts. Her stories have been voted top ten of Tales to Terrify 2023 and shortlisted for the CWA's Daggers Awards 2024. She is the author of the novels Estate Sale and upcoming Haven, novellas Tell Me a Story, Discordant, and Arrokoth,...
info_outline Episode 80: "Opportunity is the Devil" by Susan E. RogersSudden Fictions
Host: Susan E. Rogers, a writer of speculative fiction and non-fiction, lives in sunny St. Pete Beach, Florida, transplanted from Massachusetts. Her interests include genealogy and psychic spirituality, which often twist through her prose. She's published three books with a fourth due out in late 2024, and her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines. Links to her books and short stories are on her website:
info_outline Episode 79 : "On the Graveyard Shift at Mountain View Memorial" by Karl DandenellSudden Fictions
Host: Karl Dandenell is a graduate of Viable Paradise and a Full Member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association. He and his family, plus their cat overlords, live on an island near San Francisco famous for its Victorian architecture and low speed limits. Karl has published over 50 works of short fiction (and the odd poem) in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Follow his occasional posts @karldandenell.bsky.social and read more about of his fiction at .
info_outline Episode 78: "Siska Howls" by Maria HaskinsSudden Fictions
Host: Maria Haskins is a Swedish-Canadian writer and reviewer of speculative fiction. She lives just outside Vancouver with a husband, two children, several noisy birds, a snake, and a very large black dog. Maria’s work Her short fiction has appeared in Best Horror of the Year Volume 13, Nightmare, Lightspeed, The Deadlands, Sunday Morning Transport, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and elsewhere. Her fiction can also be found in her short story collections WOLVES AND GIRLS and SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN. Find out more on her website .
info_outlineHost: R. B. Wood
Karl Dandenell is a graduate of Viable Paradise and a Full Member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association. He and his family, plus their cat overlords, live on an island near San Francisco famous for its Victorian architecture and low speed limits. His preferred drinks are strong tea and single malt whiskey. Karl’s fiction and poetry have appeared in publications and podcasts in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Follow his occasional posts and read more of his fiction at www.firewombats.com.