I belong to We Are Providence!
I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve been a member of the Rhode Island-based writer’s community We Are Providence since November of 2023, and what a ride it’s been! I’ve had strong Rhode Island ties since the early nineties, when I did undergraduate work at the University of Rhode Island. Over the past thirty years, I’ve spent so much time in the state it feels like home, and the folks in We Are Providence have not only welcomed me with open arms, they have made me feel like I truly belong.
Helmed by Christa Carmen (The Daughters of Block Island) and L.E. Daniels (Serpent’s Wake: a Tale for the Bitten), we’ve just put the finishing touches on the group’s second anthology, Monsters in the Mills, which releases in August (and includes a brand new story by me called “Cinched”).
If you love all things abandoned, this collection is for you. Edited by Christa and L.E., cover art by Mr. Michael Squid, and introduction by Faye Ringel, and published by Australian-based Interactive Publications, here’s the back cover copy (if you’re wondering if I wrote it because it sounds like me, yes, I did):
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DEEP IN THE WEEDS, THEY WAIT.
Behind graffitied fences or obscured by woods, the abandoned mills of New England watch. For thrillists and historians, urbexers and developers, or just the average passer-by. Omnipresent and looming, the mills lure the innocent to their mysteries, secrets…and terrors.
The We are Providence writers hunt what lurks among the crumbled bricks and strangling sumac. A widower on a demolition crew wakes the revenants. A musician rents a foundry’s rehearsal space…and otherworldly tenants are practicing on him. A lonely girl combs the ruins to find an unsettling friend; a bitter punk moves into a refinery where her bestie vanished, and a criminal breaks into a cloth factory to discover a sentient—and sinister—machine.
These eighteen terrifying tales suggest when abandoned mills beckon, it’s best to ignore them.
After all, they’ve come to collect their due.
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Cover art release, special preview of my story, teasers for all the pieces in the collection, the opportunity to get a limited-edition bookmark from me with proof of purchase, and more details to come.
In the meantime, you can pick up the group’s first highly popular foray, We Are Providence: Tales of Horror from the Ocean State, on Amazon here.
Stay tuned!
Posted on June 3, 2024, in horror short stories, News, The Writing Life and tagged abandoned mills, Aron Beauregard, Brennan LaFaro, Christa Carmen, Elizabeth Devecchi, Errick Nunnally, Faye Ringel, Gage Greenwood & Kylee Jones, horror stories set in Rhode Island, Interactive Publications Pty Ltd, Jason Parent, Jessica P. Wick, Joshua Rex, Kristi Petersen Schoonover, L.E. Daniels, Mary Robles, Mr. Michael Squid, Paul Magnan, Rhode Island writers organizations, Ricardo D. Rebelo, Rick Claypool, Steven Belanger, Victoria Dalpe, We Are Providence. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
An anthology of abandoned mills sounds exciting. I look forward to snagging a copy and reading your story!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I am always so appreciative of your support. I proofed the book to help them out, and I will say–damn, there is some GREAT WRITING in this book. There are several pieces that are in your wheelhouse, and I’m happy to send you a nice laminated bookmark!!