Ever Burning Fire - Horror Fiction

Charles Phillips hates the "meat" of himself—the asthma, the weak bones, the fragility of being human. In a desperate bid to become "durable," he visits a back-alley geneticist who promises a software patch for the human soul using the DNA of the world's most resilient bacteria. The treatment is a success, but Charles soon learns that evolution is never safe. As he begins to shed his humanity in t...

In the suffocating heat of the Texas brush, disgraced academic Dr. Aris Thorne is digging for redemption. But beneath the ruins of the Mission Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo , he unearths a history that should have stayed buried. The excavation reveals a crypt of skeletons, the "Silent Choir," all bearing the same gruesome mark: a perfect hole drilled into the frontal bone. As Aris at...

Arthur lives in a "suburban tomb" of hermetic silence, dedicating his existence to a "grey struggle" against the dust that constantly threatens to coat his mahogany bookshelves. But his carefully curated museum of comfort is shattered when he discovers a rusted analog SLR camera buried deep in a closet box marked Winter . The camera is heavy, "infectious," and smells...