Holy Flying Pumpkins: Ten Not-so-Scary Stories
A LegendFiction Anthology from Citlalin Ossio, Grace Woods, Joseph Campbell, Dominic de Souza Katy Campbell, Karina Fabian, Mary Phelps, & Corinne Oncena
Are you looking for a serious work of literary genius? Then you’ve picked up the wrong book.
Holy Flying Pumpkins is an anthology of Halloween short stories that contain, among other things, killer fast food, pumpkin flinging, and serial killers with extremely poor judgment. Does any of that sound like literature to you? Absolutely not! It is, however, a rollicking good time.
Stories include:
Night Of The Pumpkin Slingers
The Last Drive Thru
The Ghost Of Leah Lacrosse
Specter’s Mid-Death Crisis
Halloween Knight
The Fairy Tale Food Chain
Oh Deer
Troll Bacon
Lovingly hand-crafted by the nerds at LegendFiction.
Meet the Authors
Citlalin Ossio is a writer of magic, whimsy, and love (not always the romantic kind), inspired by her Catholic faith, her Mexican heritage, and Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda. Her fantasy short stories have been featured in various anthologies with Inklings Publishing, Cursed Dragon Ship Publishing, and Rehumanize International. When she’s not writing, she’s hanging out with her family, “researching” for her stories with anime, East Asian dramas, and video games, or dreaming about raising a panda army. You can connect with her on Instagram @citlalinossio and on her Substack blog, Heart to Text, where she shares her love for all things creativity, storytelling, faith, and fantasy. Website: hearttotext.substack.com
Grace Woods is an aspiring author and big sister to eight, currently in her freshman year of Graphic Design at Fort Hays State University. Provided she gets her homework done on time, her hobbies are trying new microwavable foods, haunting the adoration chapel, scrolling Pinterest, and saving the world from evil puppets. Also writing! Her current WIP is a trilogy, Those Crazy Bloodbournes, about everything ELSE that Alros, Kronen, and their crazy family get up to (including unleashing the apocalypse, but shhh! No spoilers!).
Website: forgottenwoods8.wordpress.com
Joe Campbell is a Catholic videographer, husband and father, and lover of classic fiction. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, he loves hiking and camping. Between Church, family, writing, and watching bad B movies, you can find him consuming the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jules Verne, and Samuel Fuller. Website: filmilliterates.com
Mary Phelps is a 16-year-old, story-writing, coffee-drinking, cat-loving machine who doesn’t know how to quit on a project (testified to by the insane number of unfinished activities in her desk drawers that she’s “saving for later”). She writes whenever she has the chance and is just about finished writing her first series. When she isn’t busy with serious stuff, she’s usually hanging out with her besties, trying to please her theater directors, or panicking over the insane amount of revisions she has to do until her latest novel is readable. Website: daytimedreamers.substack.com
Karina Fabian is a full-time writer and a part-time comedienne. When she’s not writing the adventures of snarky dragons, space nuns, or rednecks in Starfleet, she enjoys watching rocket launches from her front yard. Learn more at karinafabian.com
Katy Campbell is a human being. You might think this is obvious until you take the time to notice that none of the other authors in this anthology describe themselves this way. Mary Phelps, for example, described herself as a “machine” which should raise some alarms. While Karina Fabian never said she wasn’t human, that whole thing about watching rocket launches from her front yard gives the impression that she might be of extraterrestrial origin. When Katy isn’t coming up with conspiracy theories about her fellow writers, she is forcing them to contribute to ridiculous anthologies, questioning her own sanity, and making tin-foil hats. You can see more of her work (for better or for worse) at katysfables.com
Corinne Oncena is a teen writer, hoping with all her heart to make writing her full-time job. She writes, lives, and breathes stories, songs, and poetry. When she isn’t busy combatting the fiends of grammar and plot twists, she likes to play the guitar, visit the library, or curl up with a good book.
Dominic de Souza: A Catholic dad and novelist passionate about worldbuilding and re-wilding Christianity. I’m a graduate from the Writer’s Institute for Children’s Literature, self-published a children’s novel, and work as a full-time marketer and graphic designer. I am married, with a small girl and a smaller corgi. Website: dominicdesouza.com