Through the Wringer

by Dean Wesley Smith, Valerie Brook, David H. Hendrickson, Kevin J. Anderson, Neil Peart, Scott Edelman, Adam-Troy Castro, Don Webb, Annie Reed, O'Neil De Noux, Karen Fonville, J. Steven York

2024 · WMG Publishing, Inc.

We came up with this title for an anthology of ten stories from the pages of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine and then had to look up the definition of the word “wringer.” Seems a wringer (easily misspelled as “writer") used to be an instrument of torture to squeeze stuff. Yup, that fit. So ten writers in ten stories put their characters through wringers in one form or another in these pages, and it turned out honestly, fantastic fun to read. And amazing how all the stories fit a title we had to look up. The Sea Girl’s Survival by Valerie Brook Seeing Him For the First Time by David H. Hendrickson Drumbeats by Kevin J. Anderson and Neil Peart What Remains of America by Scott Edelman The Henchman is Horled Off the Catwalk by Adam-Troy Castro Shocking Tales bu Don Webb Missing Carolyn by Annie Reed The Purple Side of Blue by O’Neil De Noux The Remarkable Way She Died by Karen Fonville The Steam-man’s Plantation by J. Steven York