David Niall Wilson's Writings
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Short Story
Dec.09.2008
First Published in City Slab #7 - Reprinted in the 2007 Bram Stoker Award Nominated Collection "Defining Moments"
The flick of a thumb, bright sparks and the faded Zippo lighter with the Grateful Dead emblem emblazoned across its front, came to life. The scent of lighter fluid mingled with Sandalwood and hemp. Shadows slid along the floor, wavering and dancing as long slender fingers raised the lighter, bringing the flame to rest beneath a dangling metal ball...
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Short Story
Oct.15.2008
Macabre Ink - Website of author David Niall Wilson
Some time back, I was fooling around trying to find new ways to procrastinate from writing with real deadlines. I determined that what I really wanted to be doing was writing flash fiction - and that I should take my inspiration from Emotions - those happy little smiling faces. It grew out of control. To date I've written more than fifty of them, all...
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Poem
Oct.10.2008
Cities of Light and Darkness - Poetry Broadside set from Kelp Queen Press
Myth drenched and splendid,
crumbled -- food for time,
Your temples standing idle,
With cats for priests &
The uninitiated swarming
About your battlements in
Spandex vestments,
Flashing memories from
Each moment to save
& savor.
Once Gods wagered upon
Your soil,
Drew lots for
Your people
Fought and lived and loved
In your heart.
Great Neptune struck your...
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Short Story
Oct.10.2008
Originally Published in the anthology Extremes V from Lone Wolf Publications - Reprinted in Ennui & Other States of Madness
The lines shifted as his fingers walked the page. The symbols, so familiar after long hours of study, blurred and danced across the ancient scroll, evading translation. Cyrus knew he would have to stop soon. He was doing no good by pushing so hard, and he’d have to go over anything accomplished in such a state for errors. Wasted time. Better to start fresh...
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"The world of publishing isn't standing still, and the buildings on 5th Street in NYC are...everything is changing..."”
—David Niall Wilson
About David
David Niall Wilson has been writing and publishing horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction since the mid-eighties. An ordained minister, once President of the Horror Writer's Association and recipient of the Bram Stoker Award for poetry and short fiction,...
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David’s Favorite Books
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, On the Road, The Dark Tower Series, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Haunting of Hill House, The Works of...