While procrastinating doing research on the internet recently (instead of getting on with the millions of projects I have ongoing right now) I saw two affirmations that hit very close to home. I apologise that I don’t know who to credit for either of them. “If you wait until you feel ‘better’ to start living, […]
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Front Row
© T.L. Wood, 2025. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.This story is copyright. Except for the purpose of fair […]
Kia ora! Just checking in…
It’s been quite a while since you’ve heard from me. My apologies! 2025 came out the gate with a bit of a bang, and not always in the ways I would have wanted. Isn’t it almost always the way; you make plans and Life steps in and says, “nope”. I don’t mind so much. I […]
Salt of the Earth
© T.L. Wood, 2024. First published in LEARNING TO LET GO, Wild Wood Books, 2024 This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is […]
Awards Consideration Post
I think it’s probably time for me do an awards consideration post. It’s been a lean year as I’ve been easing my way back into publishing, but I do have three stories and one artwork that I’m very proud of and feel are worthy of being nominated for any 2024 speculative fiction / horror award. You […]
Trauma Box
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. This story is copyright. Except for the purpose of fair review, no part […]
A Little Bit of Adrenaline is my Favourite Medicine: Horror, Healing and PTSD
This essay has been a long time coming. I started drafting it eight months ago, to be precise. I intended it to be something very different, but in the end, it was a tool for catharsis. It’s funny, I always used to tell people I wrote creatively to help process my trauma and to make […]
Healing
I don’t feel very well today, But if you asked me what’s wrong, I’m not sure I could say. My mind is dim, but my body’s on fire, My thoughts are chaotic, strung out with barbed wire. My concentration is… ooh, what’s that?! I feel like my insides have been all squashed flat, And when […]
In Blood
New story? New story! It’s been a while. Content warning: includes language that talks about sex and revenge / violence and teen pregnancy. You are ten years old when the first one slithers down your leg while you’re taking a shower before bed. You don’t know what it is at first. You watch it curiously, eyes […]
Marian
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. This story is copyright. Except for the purpose of fair review, no part […]