Boneyard Tales: Flash Fiction

by Michael Carter, A. A. Medina (Illustrator), Shawn Langley (Illustrator)

Overview

Take a journey through Michael Carter's boneyard by way of thirty-five bite-sized flash fictions. All with a speculative bent, the tales explore the magical and the real, outdoor life and the American West, delve into the psychology and horrors of crime, correction, and rehabilitation, and provide a glimpse of the end of the world as we know it. What else is waiting to be uncovered in the boneyard? There's only one way to find out.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781953359155
Publisher:	Greenbelt Press
Publication date:	10/28/2022
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Michael Carter is an author and occasional photographer from the Western United States, with family heritage apple orcharding in Washington and homesteading in Montana. His short fiction and creative nonfiction stories appear regularly in literary journals, magazines, and anthologies, and his most bothersome flash fiction was recently collected in Boneyard Tales (2022). When he’s not at the keyboard or scavenging the boneyard, he can be found at the river’s edge fishing or RVing around the nation, and sometimes online at www.michaelcarter.ink and @mcmichaelcarter.

Editorial Reviews

Michael Carter is a master of finding the weird and unexpected in everyday tales of life in small town America. His debut collection is the stuff of nightmares, to be relished and feared in equal measure.

cover blurb - Christopher Stanley

From the freaky, to the frightening, from the uncanny to the unearthly, Michael Carter's compelling debut flash fiction collection, Boneyard Tales, offers us a weird side-eye look into the other worlds we pretend don't exist.

cover blurb - Alyson Faye

Michael Carter's beautifully unsettling story collection shows you the bodies before they're laid to rest. From straight ahead, King-esque horror to sinister atmospheric pieces, Boneyard Tales plucks out all the creepiest chords.

cover blurb - Chris Panatier

Roadkill is oddly romantic, scavenging beetles do beautiful work, vengeful flora and fauna enforce karmic rules, respectful ghosts show compassionate concern, and tales of survival involve strangely benevolent gore as a last grasp for apocalyptic sanity. This collection casts uncanny light on familiar surroundings like canyon-cutting rivers, chilly cragged woods, and 500-year-old homes, but [it] will leave you questioning who is the real monster: Man or beast? Tree or sawmill? Fish or fly hook?

cover blurb - M Lenoir Bond