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Sudden Fictions

"Sudden Fiction" is defined as flash fiction of between 750-1000 words that tells a complete story with a twist ending. Various artists share a new original prompt-based Sudden Fiction each week. R.B. Wood hosts the podcast.

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Episode 92: "Saved in Drafts" by Mike Allen

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2025/01/04

Host: R. B. Wood Mike Allen wears many creative hats, at least one of them tailor-made by his wife and partner-in-crime Anita. An author, editor and publisher of science fiction, fantasy and horror, Mike has written, edited, or co-edited thirty-nine books, among them his sidearms, sorcery, and zombies sequence The Black Fire Concerto and The Ghoulmaker’s Aria, his forthcoming dark fantasy novel Trail of Shadows, and his newest horror collection, Slow Burn. Unseaming and Aftermath of an Industrial

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08:05

Episode 91: "Never Leave the House Without your...

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2024/12/27

Host: R. B. Wood Karl Dandenell is a graduate of Viable Paradise and a Full Member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association. He and his family, plus their cat overlords, live on an island near San Francisco famous for its Victorian architecture and low speed limits. His preferred drinks are strong tea and single malt whiskey. Apart from Sudden Fictions, Karl's work has appeared in such places as Fireside Fiction, Metaphorosis, DreamForge, Little Blue Marble, Speculative North, and the

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08:09

Episode 90: "Stranded" by Bill Kirton

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2024/12/20

Host: R. B. Wood Bill Kirton was born in Plymouth, England a long time ago but has lived most of his life in Scotland. He has written stage and radio plays, songs and sketches for revues, flash fiction, short stories, novels, stories for children and books aimed at helping students to write effective academic essays and dissertations and get the most out of university and work. Dr. Kirton has been a university lecturer, actor, director, TV presenter, visiting professor and artist at the University

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09:34

SFP89: "No Mercy" by Susan E. Rogers

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2024/12/14

Host: R. B. Wood Susan E. Rogers lives in sunny St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA transplanted from Massachusetts. Her move was the catalyst to focus on her life-long ambition to write. Her other interests include genealogy and psychic spirituality, often twisting these themes into her writing. She self-published her first book in 2018 about her own psychic experiences, published an occult thriller with an indie press in Sept. 2023, and self-published a second paranormal non-fiction book in 2024. A

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SFP88: "Leave Me Alone" by Scotty Sarafian

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2024/12/06

Host: R. B. Wood Scotty Sarafian is a Florida-born writer who grew up in Dublin, Ireland and Wilmington, Delaware. His work has been published by Coffin Bell, Pulp Modern Flash, Ghost Orchid Press (A Very Ghostly Christmas), Neon Hemlock (Opulent Syntax: Irish Speculative Fiction), Skywatcher Press (The Depths Unleashed: Book 1), Black Hare Press, and Trembling with Fear. He was longlisted for Pulp Literature’s 2023 Raven Short Story Contest. He lives in Dublin with his mischievous pug.

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Episode 87: "Silents" by Kristin Kirby

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2024/11/27

Host: R. B. Wood Kristin Kirby is a Southwest writer and screenwriter whose short stories have appeared in the anthology Negative Space 2: A Return to Survival Horror, MYTHIC magazine, The Overcast podcast, the Sudden Fictions podcast, 365tomorrows, SERIAL magazine, and other publications. I’m also honored that my short story “Meat” was on the preliminary finalist ballot for the 2023 Bram Stoker Awards. My first collection of short stories will be published by Unnerving Books in January

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Episode 86: "Silent Rooms" by Lucretia Stanhope

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2024/11/22

Host: R. B. Wood Lucretia Stanhope, a neurodiverse, relentlessly optimistic chronic illness warrior with less grace than determination, navigates her crone stage in a quaint Midwest town surrounded by cornfields. Amidst enduring medical trials that could rival horror stories, her pen never rests. When not lost in the wonderful lands of her imagination, she finds solace in doting on her three chihuahuas and her endlessly patient husband.

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Episode 85: "Waiting" by Bill Kirton

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2024/11/15

Host: R. B. Wood Bill Kirton was born in Plymouth, England a long time ago but has lived most of his life in Scotland. He has written stage and radio plays, songs and sketches for revues, flash fiction, short stories, novels, stories for children and books aimed at helping students to write effective academic essays and dissertations and get the most out of university and work. Dr. Kirton has been a university lecturer, actor, director, TV presenter, visiting professor and artist at the

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06:36

Episode 84: "Silence is Golden" by Wicker Stone

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2024/11/08

Host: R. B. Wood Wicker Stone is an avid reader and writer of everything horror. He's been in several anthologies, magazines, and this Podcast. He's currently trying to find a home for his first novel. In the mean time, he's plugging away on two other novels and a short story collection. He lives in central Maine.

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07:35

Episode 83: "The White Silence" by EM Otero

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2024/11/01

Host: R. B. Wood EM Otero is a Puerto Rican author and lover of all things weird. When he isn’t writing, he is busy being a husband and father. While working outside or hiking, he loves to take pictures of plants, insects, and anything else he finds interesting or strange. He loves showing his daughter and wife the curious things in nature. His writing is inspired by our weird world, robot anime, horror stories, and science.

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08:11

Episode 82: "The Stranger" by Lori D'Angelo

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2024/10/25

Host: R. B. Wood Lori D'Angelo is a grant recipient from the Elizabeth George Foundation, a fellow at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts, and an alumna of the Community of Writers. She holds an MA from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and an MFA from West Virginia University. Her work has appeared in various literary journals including BULL, Gargoyle, Drunken Boat, Moon City Review, and Rejection Letters. Her first book, a collection called The Monsters Are Here, is forthcoming from ELJ

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08:48

Episode 81: "An Appointment with Madame Cauchemar" by...

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2024/10/18

Host: R. B. Wood Mia Dalia is an internationally published, CWA-nominated author of all things fantastic, thrilling, scary, and strange. Her short stories of horror, noir, science fiction, mystery, crime, humor, and more have been featured in a variety of anthologies, magazines, literary journals, online, and adapted for narrative podcasts. Her stories have been voted top ten of Tales to Terrify 2023 and shortlisted for the CWA's Daggers Awards 2024. She is the author of the novels Estate

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Episode 80: "Opportunity is the Devil" by Susan E....

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2024/10/11

Host: R. B. Wood Susan E. Rogers, a writer of speculative fiction and non-fiction, lives in sunny St. Pete Beach, Florida, transplanted from Massachusetts. Her interests include genealogy and psychic spirituality, which often twist through her prose. She's published three books with a fourth due out in late 2024, and her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines. Links to her books and short stories are on her website: susanerogers.com

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07:19

Episode 79 : "On the Graveyard Shift at Mountain View...

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2024/10/04

Host: R. B. Wood Karl Dandenell is a graduate of Viable Paradise and a Full Member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association. He and his family, plus their cat overlords, live on an island near San Francisco famous for its Victorian architecture and low speed limits. Karl has published over 50 works of short fiction (and the odd poem) in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Follow his occasional posts @karldandenell.bsky.social and read more about of his fiction

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Episode 78: "Siska Howls" by Maria Haskins

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2024/09/27

Host: R. B. Wood Maria Haskins is a Swedish-Canadian writer and reviewer of speculative fiction. She lives just outside Vancouver with a husband, two children, several noisy birds, a snake, and a very large black dog. Maria’s work Her short fiction has appeared in Best Horror of the Year Volume 13, Nightmare, Lightspeed, The Deadlands, Sunday Morning Transport, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and elsewhere. Her fiction can also be found in her short story collections WOLVES AND GIRLS and SIX

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Episode 77: "A Familiar Face" by EM Otero

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2024/09/20

Host: R. B. Wood Eric Marcellino (EM) Otero is a Puerto Rican writer of horror and science fiction who writes under the pen name EM Otero. He loves to mix genres, seeing horrifying monsters, next to giant robots and spaceships. When Eric isn’t writing, he is a blue collar worker and spends his days mowing lawns, plowing snow, and still finding time to be a father and husband.

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Episode 76: "She-Wolf Sonnet" by Cheryl Cantafio

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2024/09/13

Host: R. B. Wood Cheryl Cantafio is a poetry and children's book writer from Norristown, Pennsylvania. When she's not writing, she works in information technology, co-hosts a podcast (You Only Go Once), reads gothic horror or thriller novels, or binge-watches movies and television series. Her book My Stay with the Sisters: Poems was her debut as an author and poet in May 2023. Her gothic poetic tale, A Place No Flowers Grow, will arrive on September 24, 2024. Barry and the Big Jump will be

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07:44

Episode 75: "Some Things are better Left..." by...

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2024/09/06

Host: R. B. Wood Poet Laureate of New Bedford, Massachusetts from 2014 to 2021, author and playwright Patricia Gomes is published in numerous literary journals and anthologies. Gomes is the author of four poetry chapbooks. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee (2008, 2018, and2021) as well as a 5-time Rhysling Science Fiction Award nominee. Recent publications include Poem Alone, Horror Writers Poetry Showcase X, Potter’s Field 8, and the soon to be published anthology The Lycanthropicon.

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07:40

Episode 74: "Model Home" by L. Marie Wood

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2024/08/30

Host: R. B. Wood L. Marie Wood is a Golden Stake Award and two-time Bookfest Award-winning, Ignyte Award and two-time Bram Stoker Award® nominated author. She is also a MICO Award-winning screenwriter, a Rhysling nominated poet, and accomplished essayist. Wood is the Vice President of the Horror Writers Association, founder of the Speculative Fiction Academy, an English/Creative Writing professor, and a horror scholar. Learn more at www.lmariewood.com.

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Episode 73: "Redeem Your Sins" by Belinda Brady

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2024/08/23

Host: R. B. Wood A bookworm since childhood, Belinda Brady is passionate about stories and after years of procrastinating, has finally turned her hand to writing them, with a preference for supernatural and dark themes; her love of both often competing for her attention. She has had several stories published in a variety of publications, both online and in anthologies. Belinda lives in Australia with her family, one very grumpy cat and two super spoiled and super cute dachshunds. Belinda

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