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New Horizons for short fiction

June 20, 2026 by Phil Castle

I’m thrilled my short story titled “Red Lanterns” appears in the second volume of the Horizons anthology published by Twenty Bellows. The anthology is available at the Twenty Bellows online store at  https://twentybellowslit.com as well as Amazon. “Red Lanterns” retells as a conversation between an aging writer and his therapist the terrifying account of the writer’s supernatural encounter as a 12-year-old boy growing up in a small farm town in eastern Colorado. Still haunted 50 years after the experience, the writer questions whether he imagines what he still sees, he’s become mentally unstable or he’s trapped near the entrance to a shadowy land that can’t be detected or quantified by science. My story was inspired in part by an 1878 train wreck on Kiowa Creek. I hope you’ll want to read all the stories in this amazing collection.

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