Darryl Foster's Blog

Originally posted on Soft Disturbances:
By now those interested in the literary form in question will have at least heard about the landmark episode of The Outer Dark podcast that came out not too long ago, where host and writer Scott Nicolay gathers together some highly significant players in the realm of weird fiction for…

If you missed it on Facebook, here it is again: Exciting news! My short story Crude Lake was accepted into Fearful Fathoms: Collected Tales of Aquatic Terror. This anthology is scheduled to be published in the summer of 2016 by Scarlet Galleon Publications. I’m so excited for this anthology and to work with Mark Parker, Publisher […]

Wow, what a nerve-racking week of watching my story duke it out in The Writer’s Arena. Red Silk is a short horror story that started with a prompt about bugs, lots of them. I had 10 days to complete a first draft and a few days to edit the short story. There was a lot […]

I’m excited to announce: Red Silk by Darryl Foster has been unleashed in the Writing Arena and spins a web of horror. This competition started with an application 9 months ago. The story prompt from the Writers Arena arrived August 24, 2015 and required that I write a short story of max 4000 words in 10 days. My writing […]

Starting Tuesday, September 8th my short story goes live, online in the Writer’s Arena BATTLE #52 Back in December of 2014 I applied for an online writing competition. I was contacted last month to compete. This competition is similar to Iron Chef, but for writers. This isn’t a food fight, it’s a write fight. Gladiator versus gladiator […]

Originally posted on The Word On The Street Blog:
The Word On The Street Toronto is thrilled to announce highlights of the author line-up and special events planned for the festival’s 26th edition on Sunday, September 27th. The festival is proud to feature new works that represent the quality and diversity of Canadian literature on…

The Replacements by Darryl Foster Lydia Moss had lost everything in a house blaze. She was 35, disfigured by the fire and haunted by the dying screams of her family. Her mind drifted on morphine, prescribed for her excruciating epidermal pain, and her thoughts meandered between senseless ideas of the living and the dead. She […]

I’ve been tagged by my virtual-friend and author Sheila Renee Parker to answer questions on my reading habits. I can’t say the following is sexy, but I can tell you, for me, it all starts with a good book cover: lust and love at first sight. And from there it grows, an undying attraction. There’s something about the […]

The Tower Ghost By Darryl Foster A faceless boy stood in the shadow of the town’s abandoned water tower dressed in old fashioned clothes. Lisa peered at the apparition from the sidewalk. A grave whisper—help me—blew through her mind. Lisa’s throat constricted, adrenaline coursed like wildfire through her body. She ran home.  ∞ “The boy […]

349 words inspired by the image above Where the Dead Things Grow by Darryl Foster Brian held a shovel in one hand and had a firm grip on Mark’s wrist with the other. He thought Mark’s arm handled like a dead fish because as he walked the upper arm flopped on its elbow hinge. Brian […]