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 About the Editor