My story “The Unkindness of Raven” is now available in the anthology Cover of Darkness.
Although Terrible Things tend to happen to people in my stories, I don’t often write horror. This story took a long time to find a home: I got a lot of very encouraging comments in the rejection letters, but I got the sense that many editors didn’t know what to DO with it.
It’s sort of a ghost story, and sort of not. The opening scene is entirely true, from an episode that happened one day many years ago when I was walking with my friend (and blog commenter) Gwyn up Damen Avenue to Village Thrift: a crow dropped its dinner on us.
Crows are often carnivorous. It was a disgusting experience. Things were poked. With a stick.
I think I remember this. Did we poke it, seeing if it was alive?
It was just a gooey pigeon shell and could not have been alive, but we did poke it.
You had D. in her stroller.
I look forward to reading it.
Just saw your story “The Wolf I Want” this morning. Read it. Love it. Want to talk to you about possibly reprinting it.
Please drop me a note at: brucato.phil@gmail.com.
Nice work. Very nice.
Thanks!
– SatyrPhil Brucato