Today's story backstory, "Small Cold Things", originally appeared at Angel McCoy's site Wily Writers, where I still occasionally do a turn as guest editor. Stop by this month and you can see my selections for the Cryptofiction issue, though if you want to read the story behind the one cryptofiction piece in Snowbird Gothic, you're going to have a ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, there was a small black cat and a sucker. The black cat, who was not really a cat yet, but getting too big to be called a kitten, lived in the parking lot of the sucker's apartment building, and began making his way up to the second floor through a door that was always open, there to plant himself in front of the sucker's humble ( Read more... )