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Stocktaking time again.
When I started writing back in the early '90s it was mostly short stories but as time passed my brain switched to longer forms and the shorts went by the board.Lately that has all changed and the short story circuit has been re-opened. Over the past ...
Single-Author Horror Short Story Collections
One of those Facebook apps got me thinking. It wanted Single Author horror collections not by Stephen KingIt was hard to choose, so I went with the ones that got me started on reading beyond Dennis Wheatley in the days before Stephen King and/or The ...
Free to read/listen stories by William Meikle
The following stories are published in online publications or podcasts and are available for free. PODCASTS In the Coils of the Serpent ( Pseudopod ) The Last Day of Summer ( Well Told Tales ) Tannis ( Clonepod ) Aboard the Vordlak ( Cthulhu...
Free Fiction: A Woman Can Never Have Too Many
The room was white, a brilliant white that it almost hurt her eyes as she struggled to focus. Something was wrong. The last thing Sheila Davidson remembered was leaving the shop. She’d said goodnight to the assistant, walked to her car and…And n...
Free Fiction: At the Trial of the Loathesome Slime
The slime was truly ugly, the ugliest thing ever seen on Earth, uglier even than a bowl of rhubarb and custard left to congeal for a few days then coated with chocolate sauce, which it resembled most.That afternoon it was held in a box of clear plast...
Free Fiction: The World of Illusion
Tony Dickie was late. It had been his turn to clean the blackboard and, out of spite he was sure, Miss Bland had been using the red chalk - the kind which was impossible to remove from the board or from your hands no matter how hard you scrubbed eith...
Free Fiction: Temper Tantrum
I first heard the noise on the Saturday after the New Year, but it was two more days before I discovered its cause.“Eric’s got a hobby,” my neighbour, Mrs Kernay told me. “And about time too - I would have gone mad otherwise.”“The swimmin...
Free Fiction: The Blood is The Life
You don’t notice me. Do you? Sitting there with your newspaper open, taking up more than you need. Smugly secure in your job, your marriage, your 2.4 kids. You with your smart suit and your loudly patterned tie, your shiny shoes and your manicured ...
Lucidity - A nightmare
You wake up.The walls are tight and cramped around you causing you to crouch, knees bent and curved. The air is hot and dry, rasping at the back of your throat and burning your sinuses.Your eyes are gummy with sleep but you can’t raise your arms to...
Free Fiction: Leisure Time - a dream
It began late on Friday night.Bill sat reading, deeply engrossed in a well plotted thriller when a flicker in the air in front of him caught his attention.Six feet up and ten feet away the air folded on itself, first a scar then a wrinkle and finally...
Free Fiction: The Queue - A recurring dream
The man in front of me is tall, and his back is broad and well muscled. I can’t tell how long the queue is because, just for the moment, I am unable to move my head and the only thing I can see is that broad back and the coarse weave of the Harris ...
More Halloween Stories
More Halloween storiesA 10% discount is now available on the WRONG WORLD® Halloween issue for my readers. All you need to do is enter my name "Willie" -- in the coupon field at checkout and you will instantly receive the discount.The collection cont...
A Short Story for Halloween
An older Lovecraftian story of mine is featured this week on the audio podcast Dunesteef.http://dunesteef.com/2008/10/30/page-16-when-the-stars-are-right-by-william-meikle/The story appeared in the UK in Dreams from the Stranger's Cafe in 1994, and i...
24 stories for 99 cents
WRONG WORLD announced today the release of its HALLOWEEN-08 issue : I’m Going to Tell You One More Time. The collection contains 24 stories by these 24 authors: Sara Joan Berniker , Mort Castle , Ralan Conley , O’Neil De Noux , JG Faherty , Bruce...
Story in Pseudopod Podcast
I've got a story on this weeks Pseudopod - In the Coils of the Serpent, read by K J JohnstonHe says: Episode 109 of Pseudopod features the story “In the Coils of the Serpent” by Scottish author William Meikle. I make a point of noting the author...
