Ante Mortem – pre-death. That space between drawing the first breath, and the last… otherwise known as life. Eleven stories for the eleventh hour. Snuggle in tight, have a glass of wine, light a candle. These stories have been given new life, and a new home; they’ve almost travelled this road before. Something always held them back, but now together, they’ve broken free. You may want to lock your doors, you never know when a starving doll, a wicked college student, a zombie horde or ghostly children will come to visit… Don’t get too comfortable, though, there’s always someone waiting to replace you. And definitely, absolutely, watch out for the pretty fish in the sewer… Relax. The light at the end of the tunnel will wait. We here in the morgue like having people stop by, and you really didn’t think we’d let you go so easily. Did you?
Author
Jodi has been writing and editing professionally for a decade, dividing her time between her own WIPs and those of her public clients. She is the publisher/EiC of Belfire Press and The New Bedlam Project. Currently she and her daughters are working together to create a series of non-fiction chapbooks for new pagan families, based on the Wheel of the Year. Over the years her non-fiction has appeared in Shroud Magazine, Necrotic Tissue, Apex Digest, The Beltane Papers, The Blessed Bee, newWitch, Noneuclidian Cafe, and the Michelle Belanger-edited collection, Vampires – In Their Own Words. Her short horror has been included in the magazines Nocturnal Ooze, Night To Dawn, Necrotic Tissue, Monsters Next Door Road Trip Issue, and the anthologies Horrorology (Twisted Library Press), War of the Worlds Frontlines (Northern Frights Publishing), Fifty-Two Stitches (Strange Publications), The Black Garden (Corpulent Insanity), Tainted (Strange Publications), Parasitic Thoughts (The Parasitorium Group), and Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths (Graveside Tales) and as part of Rhada McKai in Courting Morpheus (Belfire Press).
