My short story “Liminal Rose Tint” has been published in Dark Speculations Volume 3.
Originally titled “Liminal Millennium,” I started writing this story with the intention of submitting it to Cosmic Horror Monthly. After quickly blowing past their maximum word limit, I shelved the project for a while to work on other things. I don’t remember exactly how long it was before I got back to the story, but I know I kept getting stuck on certain scenes and couldn’t progress for months at a time. It probably took a good year to finally nail the first draft.
Once I finished that first draft, the rewrites and editing process went pretty smoothly. My initial idea (which stayed consistent throughout the writing process) was to write a horror story about a video game addict whose life crumbles around him because he can’t get beyond the nostalgia he has for his childhood. This leads to him making some terrible decisions that take him on a journey to a place stuck between realities.
I’m not sure where or when I stumbled upon Little Red Bird Publishing’s submission call, but it was the first and only place I submitted Liminal Rose Tint to. This was one of those fun instances when a story gets picked up almost immediately. So I guess things worked out the way they were meant to.
