Author JD Hyde is a Texan connoisseur of horror and a master of the creeps. At times, he chews through the straps just long enough to write us a story.
Mr. Hyde has been published in various online journals and anthologies. Of a brilliant note are his short stories "Toff," "Coffee with Kait,""Mickey and the Z-Girls," as well as his collection "The Wordsmith Series."

Beatrix found her butterflies for the first time when she was a girl, nearly a woman, helping her mother cut meat for dinner. Her face flushed with the flutters below her skirt, and she almost sliced her thumb as she bit her lip...
Beatrix's Butterflies
It was my sixteenth Texas summer, and I had saved enough money to buy a beat-up four-door Ford. I did what all boys do with their first car; I drove for hours going nowhere, dreaming that I could drive away from the Texas heat forever. To a place without alcoholic fathers and...