Mare was already $75,000 in the hole. A deepening, widening hole with toothy edges, and there were definitely divorce proceedings at the bottom of it. But she k...
Spencer Nitkey is a writer of the weird, the wonderful, the horrible, and the (hopefully) beautiful. He was a finalist for the 2023 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and Rhysling awards. His stories have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Apex Magazine, Asimov Press, The Adroit Journal, Flash Fiction Online, Lightspeed Magazine, Afterlives 2024: Years Best Death Fiction, and many others. You can find more about him on his website, spencernitkey.com