...by NICK MEDINA
SHORT STORIES
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In the Night
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Mark McNally knows which floorboards to avoid so as not to disturb Tricia and the kids. He spends his nights watching over the woman and children he loves – Jonathan in his racecar bed and Sasha tucked in her crib. He’s as good as any family man, maybe better, but an alarm clock keeps him from being the husband he wants to be.
Published by The Apochryphile Press in Brief Grislys - June 13, 2013
Floaters
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Faron Hilson – a hearing impaired child – can’t see a stagnant body of water without seeing a drowned body in it. The bodies don’t harm him, but they do scare him. And when Faron starts to see the drowned body of the boy who used to pick on him at school, he has to question both his senses and his sanity.
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Published by Necro Publications in Into the Darkness - January 9, 2013

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The Other Side of the Tracks
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Jules Kemp boards a train from Chicago to New Orleans thinking the worst of her problems is the headache she woke up with that morning. Little does she know that she may not get off the train ever again.
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In The ​Midnight Diner's Wastelands Under the Sun, zombies will feast (and fast), desperate men will draw steel in the desert, souls will be lost (and found) – and, of course, everyone’s favorite Lovecraftian unspeakable abominations will return to prey upon the minds of the weak and marginalized.
Published by The Midnight Diner in Wastelands Under the Sun - December 29, 2013
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Caged
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Jack Nestler - having served over thiry years behind bars for a crime he insists he didn't commit - is released from prison only to find himself trapped in a cage even harder to escape than a prison cell after he encounters parts of his past that reawaken memories he never knew he had.
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Published by Underground Voices in From the UV Files - November 15, 2012
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Bones
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Eugen must dig for bones. He doesn’t know why or what they’re for, but one day – he’s sure – they’ll set him free.
Having to endure endless days in an endless hole that he’s forced to dig in search of bones that those who hold him captive value more than anything else, Eugen is abused, jailed and fed oily slop. He doesn’t know why he’s tortured, nor does he protest the treatment because cruelty is all he’s ever known. But once his one working eye is opened, he sees a world he never saw before, and ultimately discovers truths that can save him and the rest of his kind.

Published by Iridum Sound, The Again​ - April 13, 2013
For When the Veil Drops
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Jake, Elizabeth and Abby McAuley anxiously await the arrival of their mother who’s returning home for the first time since being taken away to battle cancer. As they wait, their father has the torturous task of explaining that their mother won’t be returning the way they remember her; in some ways she won’t be returning at all.

Published by West Pigeon Press in For When the Veil Drops - October 18, 2012
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West Forest
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If it weren't for the forest between their homes, Justin West and his best friend probably wouldn't have met, and they definitely wouldn't have done what they did.

Published by DarkMedia.com - January 3, 2013
The Maine Coon
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She brings him all of the things he hates, and all of them are dead.
Edgar is overcome by vermin, and though he can avoid them easily enough, his cat can’t seem to stop catching, killing and bringing them into the house. Distressed by the dreadful gifts she gives him, Edgar soon starts to believe that she must want something in return. After all, she has vermin of her own (she hisses at them from her place in the window) and to Edgar, it seems, she wants them gone. Unfortunately for him, they’re much too large for her to catch and kill.
Published by One Eye Press in Blight Digest, Issue 1 - October 28, 2014
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