Wasting away in a nursing home, 97-year-old Mona knows there's something wrong. She feels the nerve under her skin, breeding, birthing, crawling. When it becomes clear that no one believes her, she takes matters into her own hands. (WARNING: This short story is not for the squeamish!)CC Geddes is the dark alter ego of a Reno-based writer whose credits include more than a dozen short stories, two poems, a few essays, a bunch of ghostwritten nonfiction books, more than 300 nonfiction...

Blowing sand, a full moon, foot-pounding rodents and a biologist with something to prove -- when blood is spilled, who will gain?CC Geddes is the dark alter ego of a Reno-based writer whose credits include more than a dozen short stories, two poems, a few essays, a bunch of ghostwritten nonfiction books, more than 300 nonfiction articles, and a big bunch of editing (magazines, short stories, and books).

“Control” contains thirteen short, eerie tales of the darker side of humanity from an author Kristine Kathryn Rusch calls “an amazing writer.” Though her settings are often familiar, Geddes looks at the world through her own warped lens. Be it a fortune cookie or a staple remover, witches or wolves, everything becomes a little more sinister through her eyes. CC Geddes likes to think about scary things. She likes to read scary things and write scary things. Yet she has a remarkabl...

Sarei waits in a cold cell for her inquisitors to return with the torture that she no longer believes has any bearing on guilt or innocence. Is she a witch? Will she burn just as her mother and so many before her? Will she end her suffering and damn her soul by embracing the Mother and doing as she has been told to be. Or will the caress of ash and cinder bring them all to their knees?(This story was previously published in 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories (Barnes and Noble Books, U...

Neala waits, hungry, for Victor to go into the streets and kill. He unknowingly shows her the way to the remains of the dead and dying he butchers and leaves behind. She despises him for taking her eyes and for killing without purpose. She longs to rip his flesh with her sharp teeth but knows his leftovers are better than what is left for her at home.(This story was previously published in After Hours (USA, Winter 1995) in a slightly different form.)CC Geddes is the dark al...

Left stranded in a snowbound house, Lanny faces her darkest fears of death and more. Does she save the man she loves or her own soul. With an ax and a rope, everything she knows hangs in the balance.(One night, not too long ago, photographer Ted Nemitz dared his friend CC Geddes to write a short story about a photo he posted on Facebook. Here are the results of that dare.)CC Geddes is the dark alter ego of a Reno-based writer whose credits include more than a dozen short st...

In a quest for liberation, a woman moves to a remote cabin in the woods, where she finds freedom amid blood and snow."Emancipation" was previously published Northern Frights 2 (Mosaic Press, Canada, 1994)CC Geddes is the dark alter ego of a Reno-based writer whose credits include more than a dozen short stories, two poems, a few essays, a bunch of ghostwritten nonfiction books, more than 300 nonfiction articles, and a big bunch of editing (magazines, short stories, and book...

If beauty is truly skin deep, how easily might teeth find it?A boy feasts through life, forever young, charmed by the beauty of destruction, pain and despair, waiting for more. No drug sates him; no excess thrills him. More. Accolyes follow him; death trails him. More. Through country and city, centuries and seconds. More. Until finally, escape and capture cnverge into the whisper of a name to rend screams from the world. More.(This story was originally published in After H...