Daniel Stride

Daniel Stride (he/him) has a lifelong love of literature in general and speculative fiction in particular. His short fiction has appeared in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, the Lesbian Historical Motif Podcast, and Bards and Sages Quarterly. His first novel, steampunk-flavoured dark fantasy, Wise Phuul, was published in 2016 by small UK press Inspired Quill. Daniel can be found blogging about the works of Tolkien, among other things, at A Phuulish Fellow (https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/). He lives in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Read Stride’s short story “To Play the Queen of Hearts” in Horrific Scribes.

Description: A French aristocrat with opinions runs afoul of the revolutionary guillotine–but execution is not the end. No, we follow the journey of her still-conscious disembodied head (and her opinions) after her head is cut off. She is not a nice woman. Not nice at all.