This page exists to make my short story “A Light Like Pain and Promises” available to fellow HWA members for consideration in the Stoker Award category of Superior Achievement in Short Fiction. It originally appeared in Southern Fried Cthulhu from Mechanoid Press, published August 2024.
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- Award Category: Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
- Publication Date: August 1, 2024
- Publisher: Mechanoid Press
- Word Count: 3,573
- Author Name: Michael G. Williams
- Author Email: michaelgwilliams@gmail.com
- Author Website: https://www.michaelgwilliamsbooks.com
- Book Website: https://www.amazon.com/Southern-Fried-Cthulhu-James-Palmer-ebook/dp/B0DC15Z9ZL
- Title: “A Light Like Pain and Promises”
- Anthology Title: Southern Fried Cthulhu
- Synopsis: In this wryly tragic cosmic horror story, an estranged father and son in Appalachia avoid their complex relationship by confronting a door they discover in their own back yard.