Smith, D. Lynn

D. Lynn Smith

Spritual-Paranormal / Slipstream short stories

“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
—unknown.

D. Lynn Smith has spent the last fifteen years writing and producing such television shows as Touched By An Angel; Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and Murder, She Wrote. Her short stories have appeared in After Hours, PanGaia, the Bram Stoker award nominated Dark Delicacies, and has a story forthcoming from Hot Blood 13.

She has also published nonfiction articles in the Dark Shadows Almanac, Fangoria and The Broadsheet.

Debbie is currently working on a science fiction novel, The Shaman’s Gene. Her website is dlynnsmith.com.

D. Lynn Smith short stories

Frontage Road by D. Lynn Smith

She’s driven off the highway by pain, a broken heart, and down onto Frontage Road — a place folks go to escape hurt. But does this strange desert road really hold the answer? Only a dead grandmother, a cop and a coyote can answer that question. (Spiritual-Paranormal / Slipstream)

Editor’s Note: Mysterious, this. Yet every reader will nod as Frontage Road reveals itself and its nature in this, D. Lynn Smith’s debut Deepening story. Surreal, yet explicitly human, this story is a winner with its atmosphere and emotion. —womblin

Rhythms of a Garden by D. Lynn Smith

First Published in After Hours

“Where would you go?” the joker asks. Where indeed? Melissa needs a link back to her past and her dead grandmother. She’s given the chance to see, but does she see clearly? (Slipstream / Literary)

Editor’s Note: This is just lovely. A natural, gentle, look at a yearning we all feel at some point in our lives. A yearning for memories not lost, just hidden, maybe forgotten. —But only for a while. Our second Deepening story from D. Lynn Smith. “Rhythms” will stay with you, as it did me. —womblin