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Michael balletti
Scribbler Extraordinaire
Writings
"Devotion" (flash fiction) Crepuscular Magazine, November 2024 (online)
"Down by the Jetty" (short story) Max Blood's Mausoleum, September 2024 (online)
"Beyond the Firs" (short story*) adapted for audio performance by Creepy Podcast, February 2024 [subscribe to listen]
*reprint
"On Hollow Pass" (short story) Tales from the Clergy, July 2023 [buy]
"Set in Stone" (short story*) adapted for audio performance by Tall Tale TV, May 2022 [listen]
*reprint
"Lovecrafthaiku" (poems) Lovecraftiana: Vol. 7, Issue 1, Walpurgisnacht 2022 [buy]
"Through the Cracks" (drabble) Martian Magazine, February 2022 (online)
Also available to purchase here and here
"Deliverance" (poem) Page & Spine, December 2021 (online)
"Field Trip" (drabble) Sci-Fi Lampoon Magazine, Vol. 3, Issue 2, Autumn 2021 [buy]
"Unrequited" (drabble) Haunted MTL, August 2021 (online)
"Ashley's Dessert" (short story) adapted for audio performance by Thirteen Podcast, June 2021 [subscribe to listen]
"Lovecrafthaiku" (poems) Lovecraftiana: Vol. 5, Issue 4, Candlemas 2021 [buy]
Also available to purchase in Omnibus Book Five [buy]
"Scifaiku" (poem) Scifaikuest, August 2020 [buy]
"Beyond the Firs" (short story) Novel Noctule, Issue 3, March 2020 (online)
"North Pole Calling" (short story) Eerie Christmas, November 2019 [buy]
"Frolic on 13th Street" (short story) The Weird and Whatnot, Issue 3,
November 2019 [buy]
"The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination."
— H.P. Lovecraft
"Phases" (drabble) Monsters: A Horror Microfiction Anthology, August 2019 [buy]
"The Big Hit" (drabble) Angles: A Divine Microfiction Anthology, July 2019 [buy]
"Scifaiku" (poems) Scifaikuest, February 2019 (website)
"Two Sentence Horror" Nothing's Sacred: Volume 4, October 2018 (website)
"Secret Rendezvous" (drabble) Drabbledark: An Anthology of Dark Drabbles,
June 2018 [buy]
"Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places."
— Leonardo Da Vinci
"Santa's Workshop" (flash fiction) 200 CCs: Christmas Contest, December 2016 (online)
Also available to purchase in 200 CCs: Year One [buy]
"Set in Stone" (short story) Theme of Absence, January 2017 (online)
"Turnaround" (flash fiction) The Last Line, Winter 2016 [buy]
"First Time" (flash fiction) Postcard Shorts, July 2016 (no link)
"Snow Day" (short story) Sanitarium Magazine, Issue 24, August 2014 [buy]
"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."
— Oscar Wilde
"The Depths of Night" (poem) Illumen, October 2006 (website)
"The Slide" (short story) Black Satellite, Volume 1, Issue 3, Summer 2002 (no link)
"Salvation" (short story) MindMares Magazine, Contest Issue, Volume 2, Issue 1,
December 1999 (no link)
"Judgement Day" (short story) The Threshold, Volume 3, Issue 1, Summer 1999 (no link)
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