Featured Writing

Cell phone on an unmade bed

An unsent drunk text during no contact

by Jason Grant The entire king-sized bed is mine now, but I can’t seem to move from the left side to the right because on the nights you were here—laying there—if I dared move from my side to yours in the middle of the night it was like I-was-crossing-some-boundary you-needed…

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Elizabeth Hand

Word for Word, Featuring Special Guest Elizabeth Hand

On November 15, 2023, Word for Word, Southern New Hampshire University’s (SNHU) online literary series, welcomed guest author Elizabeth Hand to read from her latest novel, “A Haunting on the Hill.” Hand is the author of 20 multiple-award-winning novels, five collections of short fiction and essays and numerous media tie-in…

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The Penmen Profile: Horror Novelist Kevin Flanders

by Rebecca LeBoeuf The experiences Kevin Flanders has as a reporter often give him inspiration for horror and paranormal fiction settings. A published author of five books, Flanders is working on a couple of trilogies and some stand-alone novels. “The Inhabitants” is a nearly completed trilogy about a haunted apartment,…

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