Hey! I somehow managed to get a lot done during my daughter's last week of school holidays. Even with a public holiday thrown into the middle of it. Actually, I wrote a 3,431-word short story on that day. We got the chance to sleep in on Wednesday and while checking my Twitter ti…

Horror Story by Carmen Maria Machado My rating: 5 of 5 stars This morning, I spotted a link for this story on my Twitter feed and decided to check it out. It's not long, just over 1,000 words, but it packs quite a punch. Essentially, it's the story of a haunted hous…

Juliette loves Nate. She will follow him anywhere. She's even become a flight attendant for his airline, so she can keep a closer eye on him.   They are meant to be. T he fact that Nate broke up with her six months ago means nothing. Because Juliette has a plan to win hi…

It's been a while since I popped in, right? April is turning out to be quite a busy month. Between school holidays, a strata meeting (glad it's done for another year), Loki's vaccine & checkup (everything's cool), plus a hundred other real life things, I forgot …

Gerald's Game by Stephen King My rating: 5 of 5 stars I'm a huge Stephen King fan, and although I've read heaps of his books, I have a lot yet to read. So this year I've decided to add a new SK book to my TBR pile every time I finish one. When Gerald and Jessie…

Last week I mentioned it was time to tackle the final draft of the YA horror novel I planned to finish last month. Well, yesterday I finally finished. Yay. The final word count is 78,716. This story has taken quite a while to complete, but every bit of work was worth it. …

Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughan My rating: 4 of 5 stars I've been meaning to read this for ages, and now that I have a 2-in-1 laptop, I finally started this comic book series. When all the mammals with a Y chromosome die out of the blue, the world is t…

Before You Wake: Three Horrors by Adam Nevill My rating: 4 of 5 stars After reading Adam Nevill's other free anthology , I couldn't wait to get stuck into this one... THE ANGELS OF LONDON : Well, this turned out to be a dark and disturbing creepy story dipped in …

Auto Rewind by Jason Arnopp My rating: 1 of 5 stars After reading and really enjoying American Hoarder yesterday, thought I'd read this one too. Stephen Skipp lives with his hard-working mother. He loves Saturday, Christmas and renting VHS movies. He also wants his mum to …

American Hoarder by Jason Arnopp My rating: 5 of 5 stars I've had this short story on my Paperwhite for a while, and decided to read it today. During an American Hoarder episode, something goes terribly wrong. And Bill is telling the bizarre story to someone who is very i…

Hey! I hope you all had a lovely Easter break. We don't celebrate religious holidays, we just celebrate having long weekends. And this was an awesome one. We enjoyed the hell out of our four days together by sleeping in, relaxing in the morning, going for a lovely long drive, eati…

Every winter, Wren Silke is chased through the forest in a warped version of a childhood game. The boys who haunt her are judges, powerful and frightening pursuers, who know nothing of her true identity. If they knew she was an augur, their sworn enemy, the game would turn deadly.  …

I can't believe another month is over! Yikes. Although I got quite a bit of reading done this month, it was a bit sporadic because I spent several weeks working on revision. And that always involves getting so caught up in my own story that I don't have much time for anyon…