Snowpocalypse: Tales of the End of the World Release!

Many thanks to Scott Woodward and Clint Collins of Black Mirror Press for including my story "Breath Across the Mouth of a Bottle" in their debut anthology, SNOWPOCALYPSE: TALES OF THE END OF THE WORLD. It's available now from Amazon in both ebook and paperback.

The full table of contents:

"White" by Eddie Newton
"The Last Winter Buck" by Matthew Shoen
"The Wind Whispers, 'Witiko'" by Jennifer Loring
"Dead England" by DJ Tyrer
"The Snowman" by Llanwyre Laish
"Snoe" by Mark Lynch
"The Snow Woman" by Susan McCauley
"All These Things We Didn’t Believe" by John Palisano
"Thaw" by David Sakmyster
"Locusts in the Snow" by Richard Barber
"Breath Across the Mouth of a Bottle" by Sarena Ulibarri
"Snow and Ashes" by Zoe McAuley
"Let There Be Light" by Walt Socha
"The Snow" by Cheryl Pearson
"St. Michael’s Parish" by Nicole Shelton
"A Chill Subterfuge" by Barry Rosenberg
"Snow Day!" by Clint Mesle

I look forward to seeing how other writers interpreted the theme of this anthology. Here's a brief excerpt of my story, "Breath Across the Mouth of a Bottle," which is part Weird Horror, part Science Fiction.

My dad and my cousin Brooke were fighting about the thermostat just before the power went out. Rather than weather the blizzard alone, I had abandoned my apartment and come to my dad’s house, and had convinced Brooke to do the same.

“You know what a crazy survivalist he is,” I told her. “We’re safer there than anywhere.”

He did have a stockpile of food and wood, but even in the midst of a blizzard, Dad kept the house only slightly warmer than a walk-in refrigerator. He’d done that my whole life, and though I didn’t like it, I was used to it. Brooke spent the whole first two days we were snowed in trying to get him to turn it up.

“Great,” Brooke yelled when the power shut off. “Now we get to freeze our asses off even more for the next two days.”

Only, the snow piled over the roof, and we were snowed in for two weeks.

And look! Black Mirror Press made this awesome creepy book trailer. Check it out: