Jason Parrish

I'm a storyteller working at the crossroads of psychological horror, Southern Gothic, and dark folklore, where every story begins on the page and sometimes escapes into sound.

My fiction explores obsession, guilt, rumor, and the quiet violence people do to one another, often set in small towns where secrets rot slowly and everyone swears they’re innocent. My short stories and poems lean into choice vs. consequence, moral collapse, and the thin line that separates the spiritual world from this one.

Under the name Wordslinger, those same stories (and more) are reimagined as music. Each track is a narrative, a short story set to brooding hip-hop, hard rock, or eerie atmospheric beats. The writing, structure, and direction are mine; the voices, human or synthetic are part of the cast.