NEW SHORT STORIES / WINTER UPDATE!

Christopher Charlton
Dec 2, 2022
2 min read

Well . . . I lied. LOL. Sorry about that.

I had the best intentions of getting ABSENT STARS (my Greek tragedy of a Sci-Fi story) out in paperback by this time, but with travel and a terrible cold, (and the holidays on top of it), things have been delayed a bit. Not to worry, though - it IS on its way! ❤️

I just reached roughly the half-way mark on WELCOME TO DAHMERVILLE and I love it SO much! Episodes 24 & 25 just came out -- "Hold on to Your Butts" and "Hey Jealousy". Can't you just feel the 90's nostalgia oozing out of this one? It's such a fun combo of horror and comedy and it really checks a lot of boxes for me. If you haven't checked it out yet, click the link above and give it shot!

In NEW news - I have two short stories in an amazing anthology titled "SYLACAUGA"! It's a very cool collection of short stories and poems from some truly epic writers and somehow, I got included haha.

If you're not familiar with the "Sylacauga Event", it's the true story of a meteorite that crashed through the roof of a woman's house in Sylacauga, Alabama, in 1954! Without ruining anything, some very bizarre circumstances spun out of this strange incident. It's a great topic for an anthology - lots of stuff there to get the creative juices flowing.

I have two stories in the book, (my good friend Michelle Gallagher Soffe put this beautiful anthology together), one horror story and one short comedy.

"The Cursed" follows a young couple searching for the means to cure - you guessed it - a terrible curse, but what they find in the swamps of Alabama may be even worse!

"The Miners of Arcton 12" is a fun throwback to old Sci-Fi serials and features a couple of mischief-making aliens raising hell across the galaxy. When they cross paths with a crew of Arctonian space miners . . . well, let's just say, things don't go as planned.

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I hope you'll check it out! CLICK HERE TO ORDER! This would make a great Christmas present for any friends or family members who love short fiction or strange oddities! It's available in print, Kindle and free if you're a Kindle Unlimited subscriber!

That's pretty much it for now. I'll have news on the paperbacks of Absent Stars and Dahmerville coming up soon as well as some new books that are already in the works! Thanks as always for your support and please remember that WORD OF MOUTH is the only way to get around the terrible Amazon/Kindle algorithms, so when you leave a review or like or share my work, you're doing 100x what I can do on my own in terms of getting new readers.