It’s a strange story, and I wondered if it wasn’t too much. Almost a year later, I was back at that same cabin with some friends and not only was I able to pick up with “Lemmings” right where I left off, but I managed to finish the damn thing up there on the mountain. Because of COVID, and all that went along with that, I wrote very, very little throughout 2020-21. I started writing it in a cold mountain cabin at the end of 2020 during a brief respite from the rolling lockdowns, then set it aside shortly after I returned home. It’s not about the pandemic as such, or perhaps it is, but it’s also about a lot more besides. Certainly the only one actually written from within the pandemic. “Lemmings” is, and will possibly remain, the only piece of short fiction I have written that is set within the COVID-19 pandemic.
You might like to begin with, ahem, Issue 5. Wise, or any the volumes of Year’s Best Weird Fiction just for starters. I can highly recommend Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum, I Would Haunt You if I Could by Seán Padraic Birnie and The Ghost Sequences by A.C. Seriously worth a look if you haven’t come across them yet. My short story “Lemmings” has just been published in Weird Horror Issue 5 – which has a truly spectacular cover! The magazine is put out by Undertow Publications who are offering up some of the most unsettling and innovative fiction in the genre right now.
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