Wood Shed Writers

How Deep the Sharpened Blade: A Pulp Collection from the Wood Shed Writers
In this dark fiction anthology, eight authors explore what happens when coincidence becomes conspiracy, legacies turn to curses, and love sharpens into something deadly. Something has already begun, and the characters are just now catching up.
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The Wood Shed Writers are a collective of writers from many professions and generations, united by a shared passion for creative expression. Based in the Greater Pittsburgh Area, they’ve gathered weekly for years to share their work, offer feedback, and build a space rooted in trust, craft, and laughter.

What began as a private circle of storytelling has grown into something more: a long-held dream to bring their voices to the public. Thus, The Wood Shed Writers publication was born.

Wood Shed Writers, Greater Pittsburgh Area | est. 2024

  • The People on the Hill

    Written By

    Blair

    They had long ago accepted into their minds’ DNA that such things were possible in the prairies and deserts, unknown except by the necessary few… more ›

  • Undercooked to a Crisp

    Written By

    Meghan Snatchko

    Hey ChatGPT, Can you make an image for me? It should depict Ray, a Foley Artist. In this scene, Ray is preparing the studio for… more ›

  • Everything Is Copy. Even This.

    Written By

    Susan I

    Let’s talk about Elin Roth. Once — and not even that long ago — she had a voice. Her prose didn’t just cut; it excavated.… more ›

  • Marlow in the Mirror

    Written By

    Blair

    [from THE LAST ACT OF YESTERDAY] I knocked on the guest room door, and hearing nothing, opened it and stepped inside the room.  He was… more ›

  • Meat Masks

    Written By

    Meghan Snatchko

    Every time I carve 5oz of tender chicken breast from a warm Giant Eagle or Walmart Rotisserie Chicken, I think about Vada Sultenfuss, the young… more ›

  • Danny

    Written By

    Blair

    In a hospital for contagious diseases, Camden, New Jersey, 1948-49 And other places at around that time Danny could not remember actually going to the… more ›

  • Getting Right

    Written By

    J.Sydney Brown

    In my neighbors house fiction began, When I pulled up to tour a house for sale… My certified pre-approval should have been all that mattered.… more ›

  • Sharks Might Live on My Block

    Written By

    Meghan Snatchko

    OR Familial Fish Lore I am concerned with OR Deep Bathtub Water Thoughts I am aware that the majority of things that I write begin… more ›

  • Charcoal Pink

    Written By

    Jeremy C.

    When I was a kid, I saw a migration of worms across a two-lane blacktop in the Texas desert. Hundreds of huge pink worms who,… more ›

  • The oak tree in my yard turned the brightest shade of yellow this year

    Written By

    Jeremy C.

    the maple in my yard turned the brightest shade of yellow this year   I live in a house at the top of a hill … more ›