M. Brandon Robbins

M. Brandon Robbins is a writer, gamer, and librarian who lives in Goldsboro, NC. His work has appeared in Trembling With Fear and various short story and poetry anthologies. His novel Mr. Haunt is forthcoming from Sley House Publishing in 2028. Brandon blogs at Writing Screams, is on Bluesky, and has a just-launched Substack. His short story, “Heart of Stone,” is available as a chapbook from Demain Publishing.

Read Robbins’s short story “My Mother’s Way” in Horrific Scribes.

Description: This story is one that examines emotional and mental abuse from the point-of-view of a survivor. Anybody who has ever been victimized by a parent will be able to relate. Your mother and father are supposed to love you more than anyone, but when they don’t, there are few things that cause more pain. This is the struggle that the main character deals with as he cares for his ailing father and is confronted by the ghost of his abusive mother.