Novels and Novellas
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Newer Stories and Anthologies
"Ten Thousand Crawling Children"
Anna just doesn't want to be pregnant, that's all. She's always been terrified of the idea and taken every precaution she can in a post-Roe world, but now she's worried if it's been enough. Anna feels something crawling inside her...something that may not be human.
Coming soon from Nightmare Magazine! |
Quill and Crow Publishing House presents Bleak Midwinter, an anthology of stories for that coldest time of the year.
Available on Amazon |
"All Her Little Bones"
After thru-hiker Ellen is forced off the trail by a creepy dude who seems a little too interested in what she's doing, she's glad to run into that old trail shelter surrounded by the trees--that is, until she sees the little girl with the bloody head who needs to be buried. Again. And again. And again. |
Podcast Stories
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"Shut Your Eyes While Mother Sings"
Coming soon from Tales to Terrify Podcast!
For Sarah, it's hard to adjust to being a new mother. First there's the crying.
Then there are the voices. |
Podcast Interviews and Reviews
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Older Stories
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"Baby"
in Good Southern Witches Anthology When Ginny leaves for West Virginia with her unreliable boyfriend Jess, she finds there's more than one way to start a family. Available from Curious Blue Press Listen to the story as "A Pearl As Red as Sin" on Pseudopod Podcast, Episode 804 |
"Ill Wind"
Anomalies and Curiosities Listening to the strange cries coming from the forest, Grady prayed it wasn't a blood wind. Again.
Available from Quill & Crow Publishing House |
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Awards
Art by Londyyn Thomas © 2020
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Winner, Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction 2020
I am incredibly honored to have received the 2020 Shirley Jackson Award for short fiction honoring my story "Not the Man I Married."
When her husband unexpectedly comes home from work one day, Darlene knows that though he looks and talks exactly like Charles, this imposter is not the man she married. Read the story at the Black Petals website here! |
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About R. A. Busby |
The 2020 Shirley Jackson Award recipient for short fiction, R. A. Busby is also the author of a recently-completed horror novel. A member of the Horror Writers Association, R.A. Busby states, "In creative programs, I was always instructed to write about what I know," she states, "and I know what scares me." In her spare time, R.A. Busby watches cheesy Gothic movies and goes running in the desert with her dog.
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