Steven E. Wedel

In a world saturated with success stories and overnight sensations, author Steven E. Wedel takes a refreshingly honest and humorous approach to navigating the tumultuous waters of the writing life.

When a young girl from eastern Oklahoma went missing in 1978, the community came together to search for her. One group of high school students and their teacher vanished the day of the search and were never seen again. This is their horrifying story....

Andrew Clausing is a teacher who has lost nearly everything. His wife left him. His teenage daughter hates him. He drinks too much. The only things he has are a love of teaching, his relationship as a mentor to his students, and a secret affair with another teacher....

Cody Treat has gotten used to living among the ruins of modern civilization. But when one of the thousands of ghosts following him finds a way to communicate their need for help, he learns that the end of the world was just the beginning of a fight for survival....

When a half-crazed horror author stumbles into the sheriff's office and confesses to murder, it falls to Deputy Sheriff Daniel W. Perriman to investigate. The writer was living in the old house beside an abandoned rock quarry filled with dark water and a darker mystery....

In this touching and often humorous memoir, machinist, journalist, corporate writer, public relations hack, and author Steven E. Wedel talks about how he became a high school teacher and what those 12 years in public education meant to him....

Something magical happened in the summer of 1978. Thirteen-year-old Robert Prince fell in love with Alia, a mysterious older woman who lived down the street....

Nathan Jackson, old and blind, was there the day he came to life....

Ben has been sent ahead of the herd traveling up the Chisholm Trail through Indian Territory. The herd needs water in the worst way, and a drought has dried up most of the creeks....

When a meteor shower rains down on the North Pole, Guy Olson and an international team of scientists are dispatched to go investigate....

Shim and Shay don't like staying home alone while Mom and Dad go to work in the castle....

Keith's mother is dead, but that doesn't mean she's stopped trying to help him turn his life around....

After centuries of waiting, the alpha has arrived. The pack is gathering. In the wilds of Mexico, the Old Ones gather around Shara as her third pregnancy nears its triumphant end....

In the era of mullets, Reaganomics, and Hollywood heavy metal, Josh Cooper and his girlfriend Rana set out from Florida to Tennessee to reunite with an old friend to form a new rockabilly band....

Lynette Cook knows about abuse. She learned it from her father and, later, had the lessons reinforced by the boyfriend she thought was her savior....

Rev. Milton Agnew's church's Brazilian mission has been destroyed, but the village isn't empty. He finds a strange woman named Amara. Can he save her and himself? Listen to find out....

Shara Wellington has always lacked confidence....

Dena was recently divorced and ready for a new life in Benevolence. She had a new job and an old house. She really thought this was going to be the start of something wonderful. The house had other ideas....

An ancient prophecy of our kind tells us that a Son will be born to the Mother and that he will lead us in the coming war. Shara is the Mother no matter how much she may wish it otherwise....

In this collection, Steven E. Wedel offers his most popular short story, "Unholy Womb", and four more tales of Halloween horror, including "Scream of Humanity," a never-before-published story....