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The Wrong Roads Anthology is Here!

Billy April 3, 2019 2,947 Comments

Hello everyone! Does it seem like a while since we talked? Well, let me tell you what’s been going on.

My life has been playing out sort of like a country song. In February, Kid 1 got sick and spent a week in the hospital. While this was happening, Kid 2 had the flu.

Everyone recovered and we had about a week of semi-normal, then Kid 1 got the flu. Then Wife got the flu.

Then, she went to go take a hot bath and realized that the water heater had gone out. Parts, pieces, plumbers, and a bit of flooding ensued, and all-told we were out of hot water for nearly five days. On the fifth day, the tree in our front yard fell over.

So, I’ve been dealing with some stuff.

In dealing with the stuff, I sort of missed the launch of my newest book, The Wrong Roads. This is an anthology covering road trips gone wrong in all fifty states. It is an awesome book featuring some of the best up-and-coming horror writers in the field. And the paperback version is only $7.75 right now!

Click here to buy the book and as always, please read it and leave a review for us. Reviews are the most effective way you can help an author out, so please give us one when you can.

That’s all for now!

Billy

See, I told you I had a lot going on behind the scenes!!!

Billy February 6, 2019 44 Comments

Hello everyone, when last we spoke, I told you I had a bunch of stuff going on behind the scenes and that it was difficult to keep all the balls in the air and keep churning out new stories for the website all the time.

I know that sounds like the typical blogger excuse for scrolling mean tweets, but in my case it was the truth. Now I can share all the stuff that’s been happening.

In late January, Tavistock Galleria came out. This is a collaboration among 14 authors centered around a dying and haunted shopping mall. Response to Tavistock has been overwhelmingly positive and we’ve hit #1 on Amazon (more…)

Samhain

Billy October 31, 2018 3 Comments

This is a story I wrote for a friend’s blog. The prompt was this picture. I cannot find the link to the story on her blog but when I find it I’ll post it. Happy Halloween!

Please get permission to adapt/narrate, or otherwise use my stories. Thank you.

Samhain

By William Stuart

The whole thing started as a curiosity piece, part of a week-long Halloween-themed series. It’s the sort of maudlin fluff that serious journalists despise, but what we all end up doing so much more of than actual reporting. This is the stuff of small town newspaper. Talk with an old lady whose cat was rescued by the fire department. Cover the ribbon cutting at the new Chevron station. Interview old folks and ask them what it was like to grow old in this no-horse town in the middle of nowhere. But I digress. It was nearing Halloween and the boss wanted to report on some dark and mysterious things in our town’s history. (more…)

Troll Bridge

Billy August 31, 2018 No Comments

Please get permission before adapting or republishing my stories. Comment below or send a message to me at billy stuart 75 at gmail Thanks!!

Troll Bridge

Every town has the place—an abandoned building, an alleyway, a wooded area—where the ‘bad’ kids hang out. You know who I mean; the long hairs, metal heads, the druggies. It’s where these outsiders go to smoke cigarettes and listen to music. For us, it was the bridge over Boot Creek, the little stream that snaked through town. Boot Creek itself was rarely any more than a muddy ditch. But at the top of the bank there was an area where kids could hang out and make noise and ride their skateboards without the nosy gazes of adults.

My friends and I took to calling it, “Troll Bridge,” on account of it was occupied almost all the time by Billy Logan and his crew of pothead screwups. Billy was three years older than us but was only one grade ahead because he’d been held back twice. I was in the seventh grade and here was this giant, nearly fifteen-year-old bully running around terrorizing everyone. Don’t look so shocked. It was the eighties. Things were just like that. It was a different world then.

Anyway, Billy had grown this sort of scraggly goatee on his chin and my friend Chad made the remark that all that hanging out under the bridge was turning him into a Billy goat. My other friend Daniel pointed out that it had been the troll who lived under the bridge, not the goats. I agreed with Daniel, that Billy was much more like the troll than the goats. And after that, it was Troll Bridge, not Boot Creek, that we avoided as much as we could. (more…)

The Trees Have Eyes

Billy July 28, 2018 60 Comments

Hello everyone! Please click here to purchase my stories!

In this anthology, I have two stories that take place in the deep, dark woods:

“Seeker”

In 1984, a young teen moves to a small town in rural Texas. An outsider, he meets a group of misfits like himself and shows them the joys of heavy metal and role playing games. But in the midst of the Satanic Panic, some players take the game way too far.

“Lucie and Snaggletooth”

In an unexpected financial windfall, a family can finally afford their dream house in the country. But mysterious neighbors and dangerous creatures quickly turn that dream into a nightmare.