That Time I Didn't Know I had a Story Republished.

In 2019, I submitted a story that was originally written for and rejected by a different anthology to Jeani Rector's print version of The Horror Zine. It was accepted and published in the Spring 2019 issue (pictured below).

However, while being a bad boy and Googling myself with the word "terrible" in a vain effort to locate some funny negative criticisms about my work, I instead ran across the following search result at the top of the screen:

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Christopher Nadeau - The Horror Zine

The May Selected Writer is Christopher Nadeau ... more, informing him his behavior was outrageous, unprofessional, classless and, worst of all, pissing me off.

The way that reads, I thought somebody was talking about me! Excited to see what terrible thing somebody thought I had done, I instead happened upon an issue of the online version of the Horror Zine, which I'd always thought was a whole separate thing. Yet, there I was for the third time as featured writer without even knowing it. It turns out the verbiage was an excerpt from my own story.

Click the link below to read "The Time of Expansion," one of my favorite stories even though I didn't remember it when I read it :)



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