Eric C Ross
is an award-winning author of speculative fiction that questions reality and lingers in the mind.
"Direct, thoughtful, and haunting around the edges."
is an award-winning author of speculative fiction that questions reality and lingers in the mind.
"Direct, thoughtful, and haunting around the edges."
At the 2025 Royal Palm Literary Awards, hosted by the Florida Writers Association, Eric C Ross won 1st place in the Flash Fiction category with his story "Incomplete." The story, featured in his anthology titled "Otherworldly," also won "Best Short Prose of the Year."
In 2026, I submitted the book as a whole to the American Fiction Awards hosted by American Book Fest. It made it as one of three finalists out of sixteen entries in the Anthology category.
"Eric Ross's stories are like a dagger wrapped in velvet. You generally don't know he's got you until it's too late."
-Thomas Smith - author of "Something Stirs" and "Other Places".
Strange stories about familiar things—and familiar stories about strange things.
Eric C Ross' debut publication. A collection of six short stories that all touch a different world.
Get more info on the stories and peek behind the scenes here: Written Works
Get it on Amazon: Otherworldly: An Anthology
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You can find one of my short stories in the 2026 edition of the Florida Writers Association's annual anthology. Collections 18: Fragments releases on October 23rd, 2026 (tentative date) and you can follow the FWA on Amazon to be notified when it releases.
My story is called "Money Can't Buy Happiness," and it's about teenage love, addiction, and loss in a world where emotions can be literally bottled and traded.