Short Fiction
A holiday get together goes about as bad as it can go, all becuase one of the grandchildren wanted McDaonalds on Christmas morning.
Doesn't neatly fit into a genre. It's sort of like a horror comedy the way a hotdog is like a sandwich.
“Rage And Redemption” – Graveside Press’ “Soul” Anthology (October 2024)
A girl faces the ghosts of her adolescence, just not the ghosts she was expecting.
One of my few stories where I came up with the twist first. While I love this story, it's MUCH easier to start with characters and plot.
“The Thrilling And Sensational Flock Lifestyle” – NewMyths (September 2024)*
A work of sci-fi flash fiction told in the form of a futuristic advertisement.
So much of my frustration with the current state of the world was poured into this.
“The Last Time My Twin Destroyed The World” – Uncharted Magazine (September 2023)*
The narrator thinks the world would be perfect if their twin would just stop destorying it.
This story might be set across a longer period of time than any other story I have ever encountered.
Runner-up in the 2024 New England Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Story Contest
“Beneath The Crimson Sky” – The Colored Lens (July 2023)
People all acorss the world are being transported into a mysterious labyrinth.
The image of labyrinths appear a lot in my fiction. So do stories told out of chraonological order.
“River’s Song” – Metaporosis (March 2023)*
Follows an alien who has grown up on earth and who is spending her last day before returning to her home planet.
An excellent example of how I love to combine the mundane with the fantastical.
“Milo Fleming’s House of Horrors” (page 15) – Variety Pack (December 2022)*
A boy creates a homemade haunted house that's a little too real.
The layout of the house is based on the house my wife grew up in...don't read into that.
“Beyond Rose Street” – After Dinner Conversation
A teen does everything he can to help a friend literally trapped between worlds.
Appeared in a philosophy publication. The story tackles the question: should we cling onto the loved ones who are pulling us down or should we let them go.
“Beyond Greenville” – Strange Days: Midnight Street Anthology 4
A girl who grew up in a community that is voluntarily stuck in the year 2016 must journey beyond the borders of her town to save her dying brother.
This story grew from the question: if today there are groups like the Amish who live their lives as if it is a previous century, in the distant future will there be groups who live as if it is still the twenty-first century?
A couple who has grown distant from one another catches a disease that makes them merge togetehr, becoming one organism.
I believe I invented the sub genre "Romantic Body Horror."
“The Final Video” – Ink Stains vol. 10 (Dark Alley Press)
A girl is promised that her estranged mother will return if she follows the instructions on a mysterious video tape.
I grew up during the age of video rentals. As a kid I would sometimes wonder what would happen if I rented a tape that was recorded over and I saw something disturbing I wasn't meant to have seen.
“The Night Parade” – Kaaterskill Basin Literary Journal
A young boy befriends a parade of monsters that travels by his house once a year.
Also grew out of a childhood anxiety: what would happen if I looked out my bedroom window in the middle of the night and saw something I wasn't supposed to see?
“The Surviving Legend” – Miracle Monocle*
A work of flash fiction told from the point of view of a monster whose soul survives through stories as it is passed down from legends all the way to modern-day Hollywood.
My first short story that was ever accepted for publication (other than college publications).
I also wrote book reviews for THE ATTICUS REVIEW. One of my favorites is here.
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