Tony Mills

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“Alter Echo” by Tony Mills

Eight days Kenneth saved up money from his day job and rented a cabin in the woods somewhere on the North Shore of Lake Superior for a week in November. But the sky blew just the last of the leaves from trees and spared him the early white of years before. Kenneth sounded nameless in the ears of other writers. A modest list of form rejections splayed around their file in his inbox. Quick l...

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“Reset” by Tony Mills

Trent faces the window from the dining car as the tube streams through the Alsatian countryside. The eyes face out but send no message to the mind save the mere spring scenery, the mind at last facing elsewhere, save the shakeless sense that he’s done this all before. “More coffee, sir?” and there that brings him to the moment. Trent looks up to the gently Punjabi man, softly bowed, twice removed from his native...

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Former academic turned fiction writer, mostly horror and literary fiction. Subscribe to my free Substack page: https://tonymills.substack.com