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Just Enough Rope-Free Fiction
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This is a short story that lead to a sequel short story and then spawned my second novel, Spiders in the Daffodils. I did a cursory re-edit for the website and damned, if I don’t still like this story and the world that came along with it as well. I borrowed a bit from…
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Tales from the Lark Side
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Super author/editor and pal Lindsey Goddard invited me to contribute to a really fun anthology called Tales from the Lark Side and it has been unleashed on the Earth at last! (At least as of Friday.) This anthology is a funny and scary romp through different situations from an absolute banger list of authors.…
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The Turbulent Flight Home
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A million years ago (in two thousand fifteen,) I had a story in an anthology that took place in the very same universe as Night of the Living Dead. Called, Rise of the Dead, the idea was to have various stories that took place ideally on the same day as the original movie, but…
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New Anthology Alert!
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One of my favorite writers is author Lindsey Goddard and she invited me to write a story for a new anthology called Tales from the Lark Side. It’s a fun anthology and my story Strip Mall Ragnarök turned out to be a lot of fun to write. I can’t wait for this book and…
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About the Author
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Nelson W. Pyles is an author, musician, podcast creator and voice actor born and raised in Boonton, New Jersey. He created the award winning podcast The Wicked Library in 2012 and in earnest began to focus more on writing. He has written two novels; “Demons, Dolls and Milkshakes” and “Spiders in the Daffodils” and…
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A Box of Candy-Summer Short Fiction
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It’s July and it’s more than time to return to “FREE FICTION.” As you may or may not know, I have a ton of Christmas stories, but very few summer tales. I honestly don’t know why this is exactly. I like summer horror tales and movies. “Jaws is a lovely year round movie, but…
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Brighton Heights Summer Series
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I will be slinging books once again at the Brighton Heights Summer Series in Legion Park here in Pittsburgh. The one in June turned out to not only be a really fun event, but a rather successful one seeing as I was in close proximity to my fabulous neighbors (and their amazing empanadas!) I…
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Buster Eats Breakfast
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A Cautionary Tale (Author’s Note: This story was set to appear in a post about something else entirely as an interlude. It did not match the tone or the feel of the piece, but I still liked it. I also didn’t wish to take away from the article with this, which is lighter and…
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A Trip for Marv
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On Monday, I took a train ride to DC for a funeral. The man in question is the late father of my non-blood brother, Scott. We’ve known each other since high school and he remains one of my oldest and most trusted friends. His dad was another Scott, but his first name was actually…
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Brady Allen 1970-2025
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One of the best things about being an author is hanging out with other authors. It’s a rare thing to get to talk to a group of people, talking about essentially the same subject matter in the same language. If you talk to your significant other, who may not be a writer, the chances…