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Writing

Many stories. Some tied up with a bow, others waiting for their turn at the chopper's block. 
Everything written, with excerpts (or perhaps the entire story), lives here.

LECHUZA
(novel | horror | final edits)

Elizabeth Cook just wants to disappear, let her grief swallow her up so she can be with her husband again. But when her family drags her to a remote West Texas cottage, something in the rocky hills wakes up—something ancient, and hungry. As secrets unravel and shadows close in, Elizabeth must confront her sorrow… or let grief incarnate consume her and her son.
 

THE LONG THAW
(novel | horror | first edits)

Its cold in the frozen soil. Has been for thousands of years. And the germ laying there, dormant all this time, is patient. It waits for someplace warm to grow and spread. With the Arctic ice slowly melting, its found a new home...in Howard Odom.

WELLSPRING OF LIES
(novel | fantasy | in progress)

Crin tried to bury the past—grow a quiet life in the dirt and forget the screams he left behind.
But the past doesn’t forgive. It doesn’t forget. It waits.
Now the old stories walk again. Skinless things with hungry claws hunt in the woods. As bodies pile up and ancient powers stir, Crin must confront the horrors he left behind—because the monsters stalking the land are the same ones whispering in his mind.

THE CHAMISA TRAIL
(short story | horror)

Chris Wooten thinks he can escape his guilt in the New Mexican wilderness only to hear screams among the trees.
 

Fixer-Upper
(short story | horror)
[Submitted for publication]


A starter home-that's what it's supposed to be. Just need to do something about that damned pipe...
 

©2025 by William J. Rye (all writing is proudly AI-free)

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