Stag in Flight
A novella. Art by Nick Gucker.
"Stag in Flight" is S. P. Miskowski's story about Benny, an obsessive and anxious man. His new therapist may be helping him, but Benny's small life is upended by an encounter with a beetle in the therapist's office and his world begins to whirl into the disturbed. Includes cover art and four interior illustrations by Nick "The Hat" Gucker, and cover design by Matthew Revert.
S. P. Miskowski
S. P. Miskowski's debut novel, Knock Knock, and her first novella, Delphine Dodd, have been shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson Award. Both books are part of The Skillute Cycle, which includes two more novellas: Astoria and In the Light. All four books are published by Omnium Gatherum Media.
Rated by Black Static book critic Peter Tennant as "one of the most interesting and original writers to emerge in recent years," Miskowski has written short stories published in Supernatural Tales, Horror Bound Magazine, Identity Theory, The Absent Willow Review, New Times, Fine Madness, Other Voices, the anthology Detritus and upcoming anthologies Cassilda's Song (edited by Joseph S. Pulver Sr.), October Dreams 2 (published by Cemetery Dance) and a themed anthology edited by James Everington. With Kate Jonez she co-edited the anthology Little Visible Delight. Her work has received a Swarthout Award and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.