John Leahy
John Leahy has had three novels published – Harvest, CROGIAN, and Unity. His story “The Tale in the Attic” attained an honorable mention in L Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest. His short story “Singers” has been included in Flame Tree Publishing’s 2017 Pirates and Ghosts anthology, alongside tales by literary greats such as Homer, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, H.P. Lovecraft, and H.G. Wells. When not writing he spends his time teaching and performing music, working out, and keeping abreast of the stock market and current affairs. He lives in Killarney, Ireland.
Read Leahy’s short story “Flowers” in Horrific Scribes.
Description: The crew of pirate ship The Black Zephyr find a man clinging to flotsam in the ocean after his ship has been wrecked. The man’s name is Anton Lammers, and his ship was the Coen, a well-known ship in the Dutch East India company. Lammers tells the pirates the story of the demise of the Coen, a truly terrible tale indeed. So terrible, in fact, that it borders on the unbelievable.