G.W.Musko

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Drowned Verdict - First Published in Quarantine Magazine Issue 1 (2020)

If you enjoyed reading there’s more stories waiting on my blog and at gwmusko.com/portfolio

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Issue 11: A Winter in Metamorphosis

Cover art by Mallory Caloca. This winter, we asked our contributors to send us metamorphosis-themed art, poetry, and fiction. The response w

The Last Somnambulist Parade...

is out and waiting to be read in The Fantastic Other's 2026 Winter Issue!

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Excited to say I’ve got a story in Fantastic Other’s upcoming Winter 2026 issue!

Keep your peepers peeled 👀

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I'm proud to announce that my story, A Whistling Well, will appear in the upcoming anthology "Hawthorn & Ash Volume 7"

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My latest story ‘A Rural Surgeon’s Cure for Boredom’ will release June 1st as part of C.M Mullers “Tenebrous Antiques” anthology. Available in print and e-book.

Tenebrous Antiquities: An Anthology of Historical Horror (Themed Anthologies Book 4) eBook : Muller, C.M., Rex, Joshua, McGuinness, Chris, R

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World of Horror officially coming out of early access as a complete game (which I’m still extremly proud and grateful to have contributed to that amazing project) has lured me out of writing lacuna - check out my instagram:

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Where I’ll be posting updates and hopefully new publications as well as the usual flash fics some might remember. I’ll probably cross post a little bit between just to see who’s reading what where.

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“Diamonds and Dust”, is a short sci-fi horror story I wrote and which you can now read for free over on “The SciFi Net”

https://thescifi.net/blogs/short-sci-fi-stories/diamonds-and-dust

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My story “Summons from the edge of the world” out now

It’s been a while but I’m very happy to announce you can read my story in the latest issue of The Lit Quarterly! Pick up a physical copy here: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1773541811/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+lit+quarterly&qid=1578712544&sr=8-1

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Read my short story “The Hangman’s Tree” on this weeks Trembling with Fear

I’m very proud to announce that this story (which originally started out as just a flash intended for CintheR) has now been published by The Horror Tree’s TWF series. Check it out !

https://horrortree.com/trembling-with-fear-02-10-2019/

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Read my short story “The Hangman’s Tree” on this weeks Trembling with Fear

I’m very proud to announce that this story (which originally started out as just a flash intended for CintheR) has now been published by The Horror Tree’s TWF series. Check it out !

https://horrortree.com/trembling-with-fear-02-10-2019/

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Kemper is a 30 second teaser I made ages ago. Shooting it on VHS was a nightmare but I found the file recently and all things considered was still pretty happy with it.

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“Hey what you reading.”

He lowered the hard-back.

“It’s called metamorphosis.”

Her antenna’s pricked up and she hid her wings to see him better.

“What’s it about?”

“It’s about a cockroach -”

“What like your neighbor?” She interrupted.

He rubbed his legs together like he always did when she stopped him mid-sentence.

“Yes like my neighbor. Except one day he wakes up and finds that he’s transformed into a human.”

“What like those hairless meaty humans?”

“Yeah like that”

“Gross.”

“Yeah I know right.”

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Check out my short story “Do you know about Earth” in Doomwave zine

https://projectdoomwave.weebly.com/writing-audio/do-you-know-about-earth-by-gw-musko