Kevin Becomes a Man (teaser only)

By L. G. Merrick
Illustrated by Steve Morris

Illustration of boy with overbearing mother and surrounded by real and imaginary dangers.

Kevin Lambert’s mother became a worrier, so he became a nervous child.

Sorry, this story can’t appear at the website right now. It’s out on submission! But check back — either we’ll have good news that it has been published elsewhere, or we will publish it here.

In the meantime, enjoy the artwork created for this one . . .

Silhouette of stranger standing on road in distance, with frightened boy looking towards him.

Surreal illustration of a grotesque man as imagined through the eyes of a child

The man’s face was damaged. Mottled and pitted. It had shiny patches, and patches like gray hamburger. The man’s face looked as if it had been pulled off and cut into jigsaw pieces, then put back by somebody who took too long to figure out where each piece went. So some, by the time they were pushed into place, had gone rotten.

Illustration of boy rummaging through refrigerator, with a large ominous mason jar filled with undefined contents, in the foreground, floating in red fluid.

The end

Kevin Becomes a Man (teaser only)

By L. G. Merrick Illustrated by Steve Morris

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By L. G. Merrick
Illustrated by Steve Morris