Your understanding of life is a beating heart. It is blood in your veins and air in your lungs. I have no heart. I do not breathe your air. I came to this place while dreaming, floating through the great void beyond the warmth of any sun. There are no gods in the Universe, only chaos. I am but a small part of it. No Gods, Only Chaos is a collection of stories exploring the full spectrum of horror. A Dust Bowl-era grandfather refuses to stay buried until his work is done. A serial killer manipulates his victims like a puppeteer, certain their suffering will unlock something vital within himself. An elderly man is convinced his wife is trapped inside her body, and he knows just how to free her. Dark, but often hopeful, these twisting voyages through liminal spaces and brutalized landscapes pay homage to no one. L.P. Hernandez’s vision is fresh and devastating. "Front to back, one of the best horror short story collections I've EVER read." -Johnny Compton, critically acclaimed author of The Spite House “Properly brilliant…this is a great collection.” -Neil McRobert, Talking Scared
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My journey to becoming a writer began with a love of books, Goosebumps to start followed quickly by Stephen King and Dean Koontz. I later found and fell in love with Robert McCammon as well as works outside of the genre. I wrote stories about alien abductions and sentient scarecrows. I still have some of these stories and...wow. Awful! I never stopped writing but my life would only allow it to be a hobby until I was around thirty. I submitted my first story to a competition and was given an honorable mention. That gave me the confidence to submit elsewhere, including The NoSleep Podcast. My fist acceptance barely caused a ripple, but it lit a fire in me. I placed stories with homegrown anthologies, cobbled together my own collection, and eventually became a regular on the Podcast. I am writing this in 2022 in what has been my most gratifying writing year to date. I will share a TOC with New York Times Bestsellers this year, and also was privileged to release my first novella, Stargazers, into the world. This is just the beginning, I hope, because the fire is an inferno now. When I am not writing you can find me front row of a metal show, getting a tattoo, hanging with my wife and kids, wrestling with our dogs, and giving out crisp high fives. I also serve as a medical officer in the Air Force.
