Books by LCW Allingham
Work in Progress Story Crafting Notebook
Newest Release:
More Monsters Next Door, “No One Would Even Care”
Vampire Hunters: An Incomplete Record of Personal Accounts, “Saint Orianne”
Article
The Lasting Legacy of Tanith Lee, Daughter of the Night – GUEST POST by LCW Allingham and River Eno
Older Short Fiction
“Cellar Door” Second Place Winner in the Bucks County Short Fiction Contest
“How do we live after our working years are over and to whom are our lives ultimately responsible? To ourselves only or also to the people who love us? These are the questions taken up in ‘Cellar Door,’ a story that follows a retired novelist through the house of mirrors her life has become as she grapples with questions of aging, creative production and mortality…” – Contest Judge, Emma Copley Eisenberg on “Cellar Door”
“Strawberries” in the Out of the Darkness Anthology
Mental Health issues have long been stigmatized, with those facing them pushed into the shadows, often unable to deal with the darkness they find themselves trapped in.
In this collection, stories explore many types of darkness – Suicidal Ideation, Death from Suicide, Survivor’s Guilt, PTSD, Chronic Pain, Chronic Illness, Depression, Death of a Loved One, Secrets, Bullying, and other forms of darkness are explored. Some related to mental health issues and some not, but all of them offer very human perspectives. As in real life, some stories have happy endings and sadly others don’t.
“The Town Bike” in Incubate: a horror collection of feminine power Edited by LCW Allingham
In a ruthless world, we must become monsters to survive.
A bitter woman terrorizes her husband’s perfect new wife.
A predator stalks a college town, seeking a very specific type of prey.
Found family can be the most unforgiving of all, when a mother, maid and lover fails to care for her boys.
Girls go out alone at night, exhuming the lies their town propagates to keep them in line.
A fussy baby and an ignorant husband leave a new mom feeling not quite herself.
If it is divine to suffer, then revenge might be the sweetest reward.
There are no limits to how far a girl will go to achieve perfection for the man she loves, if that love lasts an eternity.
The hunger to become one’s true self must be fed…
If women must be monsters, what kind of world will they give birth to?
“A River in The Desert” Spring 2022 Issue of Electric Spec
A girl who grows up being trapped by others’ expectations discovers a mysterious connection to her lost mother… and a forgotten truth.
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