{"id":3099,"date":"2019-11-14T14:57:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T19:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/?p=3099"},"modified":"2019-11-14T14:57:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T19:57:20","slug":"miscreations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/miscreations\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities &#038; Other Horrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My story &#8220;My Knowing Glance&#8221; will be in the forthcoming Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities &amp; Other Horrors anthology from Written Backwards. Co-edited by Doug Murano and Michael Bailey, this anthology also features new work by Josh Malerman, Theodora Goss, Ramsey Campbell, Laird Barron, Victor LaValle, Christina Sng, Lisa Morton, Max Booth III, Brian Hodge, Mercedes M. Yardley, M.E. Bronstein, Nadia Bulkin, Scott Edelman, Bracken MacLeod, R.B. Payne, Kristi DeMeester, Stephanie M. Wytovich, Michael Wehunt and Usman T. Malik. Alma Katsu, author of <em>The Hunger<\/em>, wrote the Foreword.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, November 15th, you can pre-order <em>Miscreations<\/em> through the <a href=\"https:\/\/nightworms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Night Worms<\/a> website. This is a curated subscription box service; ordering through them will get you the book in early 2020 along with two other new book titles and other collectibles for horror readers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My Knowing Glance&#8221; is the sequel to my Bram Stoker Award-winning story &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nightmare-magazine.com\/fiction\/magdala-amygdala\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Magdala Amygdala<\/a>&#8221; and takes place in the same world at roughly the same time. Curious? Here&#8217;s a taste:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everyone eventually asks what my father thinks of what I do for a living. As if anyone\u2019s father is supposed to have veto power over a grown woman\u2019s life when her teens are a full decade past, a vanishing dark spot in her rearview mirror. When they ask \u2014 assuming they\u2019re not clients, of course \u2014 I just smile sweetly and say, \u201cAw, honey, does your daddy still run <em>your<\/em> life?\u201d and that usually shuts them up right quick.<\/p>\n<p>Some folks press on. They want to know how I can look my own family in the eye. How I can <em>justify<\/em> this lucrative, completely legal job to them.<\/p>\n<p>And so I tell them the truth: my immediate family lost any care about what I do with my life when I was a junior in high school. I was away from home at regional band tryouts. My father decided to pick up a gun during a fight with my mother he\u2019d started because he was sure she was cheating on him. (She wasn\u2019t.) He shot her between the eyes, then went upstairs and murdered my little sister and little brother because he believed they weren\u2019t really his biological children. (They were.) While their corpses cooled, he spent the next hour writing up an aggrieved, entitled, chest-thumping suicide note detailing why he had no possible choice but to slaughter his own family. And then, as is statistically typical of men like him, he blew his own brains out.<\/p>\n<p>I tell the people who question my life choices that my father would have murdered me, too, had I been home. But I wasn\u2019t, because I\u2019d chosen to play saxophone in marching band to have a reason to be gone on Friday nights when Dad drank. All the neighbors and his coworkers said my father was so nice and considerate and they were just <em>shocked<\/em> at what happened &#8230; but I know my mother and my siblings did not die surprised because violence was <em>always<\/em> on the table behind closed doors. I had worked hard and so I was safe a hundred miles away when Dad finally made good on the threats Mom had willfully ignored for years because, she always insisted, \u201cYour father means well.\u201d (He didn\u2019t.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/miscreations.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3100\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/miscreations\/miscreations\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/miscreations.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"825,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"miscreations\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Miscreations cover&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/miscreations-704x1024.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3100 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/miscreations-704x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Miscreations cover\" width=\"704\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/miscreations-704x1024.jpg 704w, https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/miscreations-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/miscreations-768x1117.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/miscreations.jpg 825w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>My story &#8220;My Knowing Glance&#8221; will be in the forthcoming Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities &amp; Other Horrors anthology from Written Backwards. Co-edited by Doug Murano and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/miscreations\/\" title=\"Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities &#038; Other Horrors\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,156,20],"tags":[145,139,9,170,94,95,171],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror","category-my-books","category-publishing","tag-anthology","tag-cosmic-horror","tag-horror","tag-michael-bailey","tag-short-fiction","tag-short-stories","tag-written-backwards"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/miscreations.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qT6f-NZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3870,"url":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/miscreations-is-out-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":3099,"position":0},"title":"Miscreations is Out Today","author":"Lucy A. 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