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Paul Lonardo

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"Dark Little Things...An Anthology of Dread and Terror," released in October 2023, is a collection containing 25 all new dark fantasy and horror tales presented in formats that include poetry, drabble, flash fiction, short stories, and a novella.

"Penny Dreadfuls," also published in 2023, is a horrorku anthology featuring 365 poems, one for each day of the year. Although this is a collection of many separate poems, they are all connected, with haikus relevant to the seasons as well as to specific days of the month. These Penny Dreadfuls are fun, creepy, and disturbingly enlightening.


THE DOG MAN OF DENNY-BLAINE is a new horror/crime novella, released by Solstice Publishing, August 19, 2022.
It tells the story of Sandi Diaz, who has a very se ...more

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Paul Lonardo Having a great love of baseball and all its mystique, I would rather enjoy playing baseball on the field built in the cornfield depicted in the 1989 K…moreHaving a great love of baseball and all its mystique, I would rather enjoy playing baseball on the field built in the cornfield depicted in the 1989 Kevin Costner film, Field of Dreams, which was derived from the book, "Shoeless Joe," by William Patrick Kinsella. I know that those are ghosts of the deceased playing on this field, so I would not mind waiting a bit and playing on real fields for now, or better yet, watching my son play.(less)
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Paul Lonardo I woke up in the middle of my operation unable to move.
The doctor spoke loudly and clearly as he brought the rib cutter to my chest and said, "The tim…moreI woke up in the middle of my operation unable to move.
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