Brand new story, “Different People Entirely” in the Ice Picks anthology. Horror? Yep.
When anthology editor S.S Michaels approached me last year about contributing a story to the Ice Picks: Most Chilling Stories from the Ice Plaza anthology, I hesitated for a moment. I never thought of what I write as horror. Grotesque? Sure. Morbid? Sometimes. Horror? No. But the more I thought about it, the more I accepted that a stretched definition of horror (never mind that I didn’t even consider a narrow definition at all) could very well encompass my work.
Other people have thought of my work as horror, so I broke down and thought of the solicitation as a challenge. I came up with “Different People Entirely,” a story of a breaking family that embarks on a vacation to the Ice Hotel in Scandinavia. How does the family fare? Read for yourself.
The anthology contains stories from the following authors: