For New Zealand Horror Books Month I’m adding another free story here. This one is perhaps more “eco-horror” found-footage with some slasher vibes. I love the idea of being connected / entwined with nature, and what a formidable force it can be. © T.L. Wood, first published in “Midnight Echo, 19”, 2024. And I Will
New Zealand Horror Books month
Calling all NZ horror folk! Denver Grenell and I have long bemoaned how New Zealand horror often gets overlooked, both nationally and around the world. This October, we want to change that. Our plan is to show why more readers should look to the Southern Hemisphere for fresh and exciting new horror. If you know us
As the Sun Sets, a play and a kōrero
I’d never written a play before I wrote As the Sun Sets. Well, one, as a very naïve and unskilled nineteen year old. It was a terrible rip-off of Tarantino, or maybe Scorsese, entitled And the City Rats Screamed. Hardly a homage, barely a fan-fic. A misguided attempt to write a movie I’d not seen yet. It
Feel the Fear. Do it Anyway.
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,
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