Wild Spaces

An eleven-year-old boy lives an idyllic childhood exploring the remote coastal plains and wetlands of South Carolina alongside his parents and his dog Teach. But when the boy’s eerie and estranged grandfather shows up one day with no warning, cracks begin to form as hidden secrets resurface that his parents refuse to explain.

The longer his grandfather outstays his welcome and the greater the tension between the adults grows, the more the boy feels something within him changing—physically—into something his grandfather welcomes and his mother fears. Something abyssal. Something monstrous.

Ellen Datlow, Editor.

August 1st, 2023

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2012

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Gamut Magazine Issue 10

Richard Thomas, Editor.

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"A haunting, touching, and strikingly original tale, that will unnerve you as it breaks your heart."

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St. Louis Noir

Scott Phillips, editor.

2016

Best American Mystery Stories, 2017

John Sandford and Otto Penzler, editors.

2017

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