Kaidankai: Ghost and Supernatural Stories Linda Gould

A serial killer's love for his mother drives him to make unusual art in her honor.

Jill Trade is a married mother of three boys. She is a trained meat cutter, cosmetologist, and she formerly worked in finance. She enjoys passing time at the playgrounds writing poetry and short stories while her boys run out their energy. Her short stories have been published in Kaidankai: Ghost and Supernatural Stories and Blood Moon Rising Magazine.



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On the day of the week meant for relaxing, enjoy a brief story about the supernatural. "The Beautiful Death of Abilene Bethel" by P. T. Corwin was originally presented on March 23, 2022 on the Kaidankai podcast.

A woman decides she will save her family the anguish of watching her waste away. How do you plan a beautiful death and how much control do you actually have?

P. T. Corwin uses his training as an actor to read to himself in funny voices. He is proud to say that in secondary school, he read Stephen King so religiously that his teacher had a quiet word with his mother. His stories have most recently been published in Hedge Apple, Schlock Webzine and Dark Matter Magazine. He celebrates his literary victories on his website at www.ptcorwin.co.uk and on his Facebook page (@ptcorwin).

"The Beautiful Death of Abilene Bethel" was first published on Schlock! Webzine.

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A friendly girl's lunch turns ugly when dark secrets are revealed.

Linda Sparks is a poet and writer who has been published in various anthologies as well as online publications and podcasts. She has 21 published books. She also served as Editor for Valkyrie Magazine. She prefers writing horror including what she terms as horror poetry which is included in a few of her books. She also writes science fiction, dark fantasy and paranormal mystery. She enjoys her group, "Cemetery Squad" and they explore cemeteries and graveyards everywhere. Her children have told her one of the highlights of their childhood was having cemetery picnics. She grew up in Southern California and now lives with her family in Florida and uses the hurricanes as writing material.

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Steve Carr passed away in 2022. He has been missed every day since.

Today's story is a classic. In "Catacombs of the Doomed," a kidnapped man wakes up in a dungeon. He wonders what act of his brought him to this situation, and what will become of him. But some fates are too horrible to contemplate.

Steve Carr, from Richmond, Virginia, has had over 540 short stories published internationally in print and online magazines, literary journals, reviews and anthologies since June, 2016. He has had seven collections of his short stories published. His paranormal/horror novel Redbird was released in November, 2019. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize twice.

Steve Carr's story The Betrothed was also featured on kaidankai (August 5th).

Read by Michael Rhys, a Tokyo-based voice actor and writer and teller of short tales.

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A sad, lonely man finds help from the beyond. Resistant at first, he eventually confides to his friendly helper, whose raison d'etre appears to be to help him.

Maggie Nerz Iribarne is 53, living her writing dream in a yellow house in Syracuse, New York. She writes about teenagers, witches, the very old, bats, cats, priests/nuns, cleaning ladies, runaways, struggling teachers, and neighborhood ghosts, among many other things. She keeps a portfolio of her published work at https://www.maggienerziribarne.com.

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This week's animal theme continues with a story where dreams and reality cross, where fears and worries should be heeded, and where ignoring the warnings can lead to dire consequences.

Made in '93, Tejaswinee is a lawyer with a Master's degree in Business Law from the Department of Law, University of Calcutta. She resides in the city of Chandannagar in West Bengal, India. Tejaswinee often finds catharsis through the written word, but mostly she spends half the day daydreaming and imagining stuff, and she loves writing across genres. She also dabbles in the occasional poetry. Music is her drug, travel brings her peace, and solitude is her therapy.
Her socials are: Twitter - @TejaswineeRC & Instagram - @tejaswineeroychowdhury

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