I asked fellow The Rabbit Hole VII: Not From Here anthology contributors to share some things about themselves prior to publication and those generous enough to do so will be appearing here for the next week or so.
Each entry gives a taste of their contribution, a little about them, how to contact them, how their story came about, and definitely a link to The Rabbit Hole VII: Not From Here (which you should purchase because it would make each and every one of us happy.
you do want to make us happy, don’t you?
i mean, considering what we wrote, you want us to know you’re a good person, right?).
And now, D H Parish’s Inversion:
After a long, slow, winding course through the mountains, the road finally straightened as they approached the small town.
“We’re almost there,” Alex reassured his grumpy children in the back. Mountain roads, even those designated as state highways, always took far longer to traverse in reality than on paper (or computer), and he had, as usual, misjudged the time. Although still afternoon, the town, sitting in a valley between two peaks, was bathed in fog, making it seem more like dusk. It also made it harder to navigate. Despite the fog he could see the small grocery store corresponding to the one shown on his phone map.
How the story came about:
The idea for the story Inversion came from seeing an inversion during a road trip with my family. Inversions really do make it seem as if the natural order has been somewhat upended, as if the world is a bit turned upside down. I used the geography of one place we stayed, Banner Elk, North Carolina to serve as the backbone for the details in the story.
About D H Parish:
D H Parish is a physician by day and horror and speculative fiction writer by night. He has had work appear or soon to appear on multiple horror podcasts, including Scare You to Sleep, Creepy, The Morbid Forest, and Nocturnal Transmissions, and in several print anthologies. His wife is not a fan of the genre, so his first readers are usually his adult children, who are.
See all The Rabbit Hole VII: Not From Here stories here.
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