The Trees of Malice: Stories of Horror and the Weird

Clarence Avery is having dinner at home when TV News reports that a man named Clarence Avery is wanted for murdering his boss and co-workers. Clarence doesn't remember doing that. Tyler's buddy Miguel is recruited by a strange mind-bending cult. Tyler escapes to find that the U.S. is being quietly overrun. He meets Micki, the only other person he can find who hasn't been Changed. Claire and Donald buy their starter home, a 1950's Cape Cod. In their back yard, they discover a long-forgotten underground fallout shelter. Inside is a body. The Trees of Malice contains these stories, and more. Here are people like you, caught up in events where the world they know crumbles. Some of these stories could happen, even if unlikely; others take place only in the improbable world of the mind. Welcome to the land of Malice - where things aren't the way they seem...

About the Author

Terence Kuch's fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction has been published in the U.S., U.K., France, Ireland, Canada, Australia, India, and Thailand, and has appeared in numerous periodicals including Commonweal, Diagram, Dissent, New Scientist, New York magazine, North American Review, Penguin Review, Thema, Timber Creek Review, Washington Post Book World, Washington Post Magazine, and has been anthologized in books from Random House and other publishers. His work has been praised by the New York Times and Kirkus Reviews.   His commercially published fiction (two novels and two short-story collections) is available at Amazon and other outlets. His popular daily microfiction post, Memorable Fancies has attracted more than 24,000 page views.   Terence Kuch grew up in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. After jobs as a logger and postman, he graduated from Reed College in Portland, Oregon with a degree in philosophy, and later studied at the Corcoran School of Art, Johns Hopkins University, American University (M.S.), and Virginia Tech (Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study). His pre-retirement career was spent in in-formation technology as a manager, and then Vice President of two I.T. firms.   He has survived interviews by the New York Times (on I.T. for consumers) and USA Today (on 20th-century fiction).   He once appeared in concert in the East Village with The Fugs 'protopunk' group, playing the tambourine because the only space left was on stage. At other times, with Pauline Kael he witnessed the burning of St. Mary's Cathedral in San Fran-cisco, and spent a week with Alan Watts on the Bahía de Banderas.   He lives in Pimmit Hills, Virginia, with a wife and several opinionated cats.

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