Nicole Willson lives outside of Washington, DC with her husband and her cats. She has been a frequent visitor to small coastal towns located along the Eastern seaboard but has yet to see anything truly alarming emerge from those waters, much to her disappointment. She's hopeful that her lifelong aversion to eating fish or seafood might earn her a little mercy when the hungry ocean gods finally start coming ashore. Her debut horror novel Tidepool will be published by Parliament House Press in August 2021. Her short story "Christmas Every Day" appears in "Halldark Holidays," published by Cemetery Gates Media and edited by Gabino Iglesias. She is a regular contributor to The Weekly Knob, a prompt-based writing challenge on Medium.com. She also writes and runs her own Medium publication "50-Word Horror Stories." Visit nicolewillson.com to learn more about Nicole's work.