We’re all gonna…

Hi everyone!

2025 is shaping up to be an excellent year for finding an audience for my writing. My horror writing thrives amidst the horrors, it seems, and I’m glad there are still wonderful places for my unapologetically queer work and wonderful people like you supporting it.

The latest is that my short story “Tire Me” was selected for publication in the December issue of Chthonic Lit. The story is a tense, surreal drive between banal office life and annihilation soundtracked by yes, the song “Tire Me” by Rage Against the Machine. “We’re all gonna — no, we’re already dead!”

I’m also excited to be featured in Chthonic Lit in particular. It’s a fairly new, beautifully-designed, very queer Canadian publication focused on that space where the literary and speculative meet. That’s the sweet spot for my work!

So, all of you will get two new pieces from me in December, since the Fearmoji anthology from Slashic Horror Press will be dropping December 15 with my story “The Beaver Weaves as the Beaver Wills.” I’ve just seen the layout for that and it’s a whole lot of fun. I’ll send out the pre-order information for that as soon as it’s available.

I have a few other stories on submission right now, as well as the novel, so I’m hoping to get even more stories out to you as we head into 2026.

Thanks again for your support! It really means so much.

-Max