Coppice & Brake

A night guard brings an offering to the eternal denizens of a notorious prison.

In a young girl's room, the shiny people keep watch in the night.

A proud father beams as his son takes the stage for the performance of a lifetime.

The stories in this anthology are the glimpses of the dark places between the forest and a dream. They are the shadows seeking the last notes of a dying violin. They invite the reader into a world where a condemned man faces his fate over and over and over again. Coppice & Brake is an anthology of dark fiction, featuring tales from the borderlands of horror, speculative fiction, and the nightmare fears that linger even after you turn on the lights.

Table of Contents

Dog’s Blood Trail by Gabrielle Bleu    

Raff and the Scissor-Finger by R.K. Duncan    

Terracotta Daughter by JZ Ting    

The Homeless Special by Andrew Jensen    

The Play Date by James Van Pelt    

Cold Dread and Hot Slices by Spencer Koelle    

Catch of the Day by Karter Mycroft     

Trumpet Voluntary by Edmund Schluessel    

The Red Shoes by Holly Lyn Walrath    

The Rat Room by Rebecca Dale    

Keys Without Locks by C. Patrick Neagle    

White-Tail Lies by Friedrich Sarah E. Thompson    

The Anomaly by David J. Thirteen    

In the Forests of the Night by Joanna Michal Hoyt    

A Woman Unbecoming by CM Harris    

Like a Cat by Brian K. Lowe    

The Yogurt Swimmer by Richard Leis     

Tones of Memories by Julie Novakova    

Ghost Story by Jeff Dosser    

Shiny People by Elizabeth Donald    

Eccentric on the Grandest of Scales by Voss Foster    

All the Dead Girls, Singing by Avra Margariti  

Swing a Dead Cat by Shannon Scott  

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