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The Visible Filth

Nathan Ballingrud

First published March 2015
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella

Synopsis

Data from website: When Will discovers a cell phone after a violent brawl his life descends into a nightmare. Affable, charismatic and a little shallow, he's been skating across the surface of life in a state of carefully maintained contentment. He decides to keep the cell phone just until the owner returns and everything changes. Then the messages begin. Will's discovered something unspeakable and it's crawling slowly into the light.

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Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
2016 Locus Poll Award Best Novella Nominee/Finalist
2016 Shirley Jackson Award Best Novella Nominee/Finalist

Publications (6)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
March 2015 The Visible Filth This Is Horror Chapbook
March 2015 The Visible Filth This Is Horror Chapbook
January 2019 The Visible Filth Saga Press Chapbook
April 2019 Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell Saga Press Collection 108
April 2019 Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell Saga Press Collection
April 2019 Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell Saga Press Collection |108