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Static Between the Trees: A haunting collection of unsettling, atmospheric short stories

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A man drifts in a viscous dreamscape beneath a world that moved on without him. As memory, time, and regret solidify around him, he’s left to confront the stillness he spent a lifetime becoming.

When Lucy gets sick, her best friend abandons her. As she watches her move on without her, a voice beneath the bed offers comfort if Lucy promises to let it out.

During a midwinter road trip to her brother’s college, a girl recalls laughter, snow-covered hills, and the stillness that followed. On a quiet stretch of highway, something waits beneath the frost.

Some stories haunt because they’re true. Not in the details, but in the feelings we carry and the silences we live with.

Static Between the Trees is a collection of quiet horror stories exploring grief, memory, and the strange beauty of decay. About memories that echo, slip, and shift in the corners of our minds. About grief, not as a monster in the dark, but as a quiet presence we carry.

Beneath the surface, familiar truths

The quiet ache of lost friendships

The fading wonder of childhood

The weight of unspoken goodbyes

The eerie slipperiness of memory itself

For readers drawn to the atmospheric dread of David Lynch, the literary unease of Mariana Enríquez, or the quiet hauntings of Shirley Jackson, this collection is for those who find fear not in what jumps out, but in what slips away.

Rooted in the emotional terrain of loss, dementia, and fractured memory, these fifteen tales unravel the spaces between reality and unreality.

141 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 5, 2025

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February 12, 2026
This is a very special collection by a new author. The stories are quiet, haunting, eerie, and touch on those liminal spaces we sometimes feel, but never see. These are the kind of stories that make you sit back and think and say, wow. The writing is spare and brilliant. I loved every story but these ones stood out for me...

~The Boy Who Collected Rooms
~Thirteen Octobers
~Rehearsal For An Exit
~Murmur's End
~The Promise

These 5 stories are mindblowing.
Highly recommended for readers who love the strange and lingering type of horror.
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