An Ideal Retreat

Michael Griffin

A novella.

‘An Ideal Retreat,’ is a novella by Michael Griffin (THE LURE OF DEVOURING LIGHT, FAR FROM STREETS) with art by Mikio Murakami.

The story:

Noone goes to check on an old rundown cabin belonging to her husband’s family and finds instead a beautiful vacation home filled with elegant furniture and a fully stocked gourmet kitchen. Seeing a respite from her troubled marriage, Noone decides to stay for a little while despite some unease. Are strange things really happening in the impossible house or is it just all the wine and pills?

Published
November 2016
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Author

Michael Griffin

Michael Griffin has lived in Portland almost his entire life, even before it was the coolest American city. He’s worked over 23 years in a factory that cuts huge chunks of steel into smaller ones, and spends as much time as possible running, mountain biking, roving on beaches, and skiing, snowshoeing and hiking on Mt. Hood. He’s also an electronic ambient musician (as M. Griffin, and half of Viridian Sun) and founder of Hypnos Recordings, the ambient music record label his wife helps run. Griffin’s stories have appeared in magazines like Black Static, Apex, Strange Aeons and Lovecraft eZine, and such anthologies as the Shirley Jackson Award…