Paul Stansbury

Paul Stansbury is a life long native of Kentucky. He is the author of

- Inversion - Not Your Ordinary Stories

- Inversion II - Creatures, Fairies, and Haints. Oh My!

- Inversion III - The Lighter Shades of Greys

- Inversion IV - Another Infusion of Speculative Fiction

- Down By the Creek – Ripples and Reflections

- Little Green Men? (a novelette)

Over one hundred of his works have been published. His speculative fiction stories have appeared in a number of print anthologies as well as a variety of online publications. Now retired, he lives in Danville, Kentucky.

Email: paulsstansbury@gmail.com

Website: http://www.paulstansbury.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/paulstansbury/

His stories appearing in print/ebook anthologies:

-“A Game Of Tag” and “Dark Meat” appeared in Brief Grislys published by Apocryphile Press

-“Sigaforgas” appeared in Neo-Legends To Last A Deathtime published by KY Story

-“The Ghost Eye” appeared in Frightening published by SEZ Publishing

-“Takers” appeared in Out of the Cave published by MacKenzie Publishing

-“Phantasmal” appeared in In Media Res, Stories From the In-Between published by Writespace Houston

-“Under the Wolf Moon” appeared in Nocturnal Natures published by Zimbell House Publishing

-“Spirit Painter” appeared in Book 3: 30 Authors - 30 Stories published by Flash Fiction Magazine

-“Exiled” appeared in See Through My Eyes: A Ghost Mystery Anthology published by Fantasia Divinity Magazine

-“Selkie Cove” appeared in Mirrors & Thorns - An OWS Ink Dark Fairy Tale Anthology published by Catterfly Publishing (A Division of OWS Ink. LLC)

-“Little Green Men?” appeared in The Society of Misfit Stories Presents...Volume One published by Bards and Sages Publishing

- “The Girl In The Harvest Moon” appeared in Autumn’s Harvest: An Autumn Fantasy Anthology published by Fantasia Divinity Magazine

-“Mulded” appeared in Anthology Askew 006 published by Rhetoric Askew

-“The Scroll And The Silver Kazoo” appeared in The Rabbit Hole, Weird Tales Volume 1 published by The Writers Co-op.

-“At My Grandmother’s”, “Ham Heist” and “The 9th Avenue Ice Station” appeared in Memories Worth Remembering - a Boyle County Public Library Chapbook published through Sheppard Press, 2018.

-“Word Of Mouth” appeared in THEMA Vol. 21, No. 2 Summer 2019 published by the THEMA Literary Society.

-“Do You Know Why You Are Here Today?” appeared in Hallucination published by pacificREVIEW, a San Diego State University Press Journal 2019.

-“Do You Remember How To Fly?” appeared in Mad Scientist Journal Summer 2019.

-“Yovido, in the Ivaldi System”, “The Usual Conclusion” and “The Red Star” appeared in Our Universes - a Boyle County Public Library Chapbook published through Sheppard Press, 2019.

-“Mangalo” appeared in The Weird and Whatnot November 16, 2019.

-“A Thanksgiving To Remember” and “I Can’t Believe I Fell For This One”, appeared in Memories Worth Remembering II - a Boyle County Public Library book published through Sheppard Press, 2020.

-“Ndoto Vumbi”, appeared in Going-Off-The-Grid: Down in the Dirt - March 2020, Volume 169.

-“Unnoticed” appeared in The Rabbit Hole, Weird Tales Volume 0 published by The Writers Co-op, 2020.

-“Dark Harvest” appeared in Lifeboat - Down in the Dirt December 2021, v190 and Stardust in Hand (by assorted writers and artists from the September - December 2021 issues of Down in the Dirt Magazine), 2021.

-“Decisions”, “Quest for the Phantom Firefly,” and “The Green Gate”, appeared in Memories Worth Remembering III - a Boyle County Public Library book published through Sheppard Press, 2022.

-“Retirement”, appeared in Short Fiction Potpourri – A Boyle County Public Library book published through Sheppard Press, 2022.

-“The Color of Blood”, appeared in Reaching for the Stars: Down in the Dirt 11/2022, v201, The Paths Less Traveled - September-December 2002 Collection Book.

His poetry has appeared in The Rising Phoenix Review, Young Ravens Literary Review, Strange Poetry, Eskimo Pie, and Kentucky Monthly and read as part of a concert by Sounding Joy: A Woman's Life.

He is Scheduling Coordinator for Historic Penn’s Store Kentucky Writers Day Celebration.

He is the owner of Sheppard Press.

Books published by Sheppard Press:

- Down By the Creek – Ripples and Reflections by Paul Stansbury

- Inversion - Not Your Ordinary Stories by Paul Stansbury

- Inversion II - Creatures, Fairies, and Haints, Oh My!

- Inversion III - The Lighter Shades of Greys

- Inversion IV - Another Infusion of Speculative Fiction

- By George – A Collection of Childhood Experiences and Anecdotes - Compiled and edited by Paul Stansbury