Spooky stories in the initial offering from Crone Girl Press! I have a short one, “It Has to Cool First,” set in Atlantic City just after the turn of the (last) century. This was the first story I wrote that clued me in that I could do horror and dark stuff.

I really do like children. And not just with ketchup.

I swear.

We’ve gotten some great reviews, but I am quite tickled and honored to have my story “It Has to Cool First” be called out by Ann Wycoff as one of her faves, for taking the risk of putting children “in dangerous situations…without crossing the border into bad taste…”

She discusses the story, then says:

“I enjoyed how Gyzander led me down the magical realism rabbit hole through addiction to a horrific outcome where the last line brings the story full circle to a satisfactory, evil conclusion, but with more questions and the possibility for alternative futures I can spin out in my head as a reader. Horror that is more of the same? A long and complicated Revenge? What do the other people in the town and associated with the hotel really know about the bakery? You get the idea.”

Thank you! You can read the whole review at https://annwycoff.com/2019/12/18/book-review-stories-we-tell-after-midnight/