Russell Cordner
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Japan-based multi-genre writer for adults and YA, mainly crime and speculative fiction.
My debut novel, Inherit Guilt, was published in June 2021.
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The Hockey Pond
I learned about loss through my best friend Jared in the winter of early 1981. We were born three weeks apart twelve summers earlier. Arriving in the world so close together and living next door to each other meant the choice to be friends wasn’t really ours. Our mothers made that decision before we drew our first breaths. So it was a good thing we liked each other as much as we liked hockey. Living where it starts snowing while you’re trick or treating and stops a month before the school year ends, it helps to be good on skates.
By Russell Cordner4 years ago in Fiction
Grandpa's Farm. Runner-Up in Return of the Night Owl Challenge.
THE DRIVE TO THE FARM was long, flat, and boring. Why Grandpa lived out there was anyone’s guess. He didn’t milk cows, grow crops, or raise animals. He didn’t even have a dog. Just barren fields, a dilapidated barn, and an old house with windows so thin that the frost in winter was thicker than the glass. Twelve-year-old Gavin couldn’t think of a worse place to spend Christmas. Sulking in the backseat of his mom’s old station wagon, he muttered under his breath just loud enough for her to hear.
By Russell Cordner5 years ago in Horror
