BLEED “taps into that dark, universal fear that lives inside of every human”
Dorothea Brooke has written a five-star review of BLEED, a charity anthology from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing benefiting the National Children’s Cancer Society:
If you’re bored by the torture porn of modern day horror movies and you’ve reread your favorites until you’ve committed them to memory, do yourself a favor and read this anthology. It’s fresh. It’s intimate. It challenges you to consider what you value most. It taps into that dark, universal fear that lives inside of every human. It forces you to recall the depth and breadth of your emotions.
If you have experienced the real-life horror of watching helplessly and exhaustedly while a loved one suffered or you have been the one to drop through a black hole of despair or you simply want to know that someone else has seen your demons, you will find what you are looking for in these pages.
I faced my terror and found my solace in:
- “True Horror” by Lori Michelle
- “The Nightly Disease” by Max Booth III
- “Unwoven” by Tim Waggoner
- “The Funeral Portrait” by Christian A. Larsen
- “Fight” by Jay Wilburn
- “Slippery Love” by April Hawks
When you’ve finished reading your favorite stories from this anthology, go hug your sons and daughters; kiss your parents and grandparents; send a note to your close friends and anyone else you love. And know that you are not alone.
Edited by Lori Michelle, BLEED features the following stories, poems, and essays:
- “True Horror” by Lori Michelle
- “With Paper Armour and Wood Sword” by Tracie McBride
- “The Addition” by Bentley Little
- “Welcome to the World Mr. Smiles” by T Fox Dunham
- “Leukemia is Fookin’ Stoopid” by Anna DeVine
- “The Nightly Disease” by Max Booth III
- “Sludge” by Stan Swanson
- “I Am Disease” by Jen Finelli
- “Sky of Brass, Land of Iron” by Joe McKinney
- “Descent” by William F. Nolan
- “Five Little Tips” by Kristin Bryant
- “Remission” by Charlie Fish
- “Ears” by Eli Wilde
- “Mr. Expendable” by Peter N. Dudar
- “The Call” by Rick Hautala
- “Where the Wild Welo Waits” by John Hawkhead
- “A Billion Monstrosities” by Mort Castle
- “Dance of the Blue Lady” by Gene O’Neill
- “Unwoven” by Tim Waggoner
- “King Rat” by James Dorr
- “The Rooster” by Glenn Rolfe
- “The Monster in Me” by Suzie and Bruce Lockhart
- “Muted” by Hollie Snider
- “Dreams of Shadows” by Robert S. Wilson
- “The Funeral Portrait” by Christian A. Larsen
- “Impossible is Nothing” by Jack Ivey
- “The Gift” by Lindsey Beth Goddard
- “Lost and Found” by Patrick Lacey
- “That Which is Not Seen” by Dane Hatchell
- “Goddess of the Moxie Moon” by Absolutely Kate
- “Finding Peace by Writing About Cancer” by T Fox Dunham
- “The Lucky Mouth” by Gerry Huntman
- “Death Knell” by Richard Thomas
- “The Sallow Man” by Adam Millard
- “March” by Micah Joel
- “Bumper Car Bandit” by David Pointer
- “No Limit” by Peter Giglio and SS Michaels
- “The Unstoppable Annihilation” by Jeffrey C. Jacobs
- “I Know this World” by John Palisano
- “Fight” by Jay Wilburn
- “Slippery Love” by April Hawks
- “Red-Wat-Shod” by Jason V. Brock
- “Get the Cell Outta Here” by Marian Brooks
- “All the Sludge” by Benjamin Kane Ethridge
- “Never Enough” by J. David Anderson
Support the fight against childhood cancer by picking up a copy of BLEED in paperback, Kindle, or Nook today.
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