Published Works
A Normal Night at the Heartlands Tombstone
Short Story: Bewildering stories.com
The heartlands tombstone is a saloon like any other in middle America. It has a flaming skeleton playing the piano, a ghost singing the blues, a living doll tending the bar and a card game involving the fate of the universe. As you can guess: nothing exceptional ever happens in this place.
The heartlands tombstone is a saloon like any other in middle America. It has a flaming skeleton playing the piano, a ghost singing the blues, a living doll tending the bar and a card game involving the fate of the universe. As you can guess: nothing exceptional ever happens in this place.
Super-Feud
Short Story: Aphelion Webzine
Two super-powered farmers, one gigantic cow, add in a ghost and stir in some old fashioned rivalry. It is that kind of story.
Two super-powered farmers, one gigantic cow, add in a ghost and stir in some old fashioned rivalry. It is that kind of story.
The Counting House Fever
Short Story: Fear and Trembling Magazine
The tale of a greedy banker and a ghost and a debilitating condition unique to his place of work. Also one of the many stories of that strange city: New Mechantine.
The tale of a greedy banker and a ghost and a debilitating condition unique to his place of work. Also one of the many stories of that strange city: New Mechantine.
A Confidential Correspondence in Capitalist Conflict
Short Story: Aphelion Webzine
A Steampunk tale of sibling rivalry gone mad, told through the medium of the letters exchanged by the two brothers.
A Steampunk tale of sibling rivalry gone mad, told through the medium of the letters exchanged by the two brothers.
The Possibility of Flat Sea Ghosts
Short Story: Allegory Ezine
A scientific expedition into the unknown depths of the mysterious Flat Sea yeilds unexpected results...or at least the possibility of such.
A scientific expedition into the unknown depths of the mysterious Flat Sea yeilds unexpected results...or at least the possibility of such.
How I Became an Electric Nun
Short Story: Bewilderingstories.com
A young girl has a hard time with her grandfather's faith. The old man has a hard time with hucksterism. Then there is the Ghostman and his Electric Jesus. Things get weird.
A young girl has a hard time with her grandfather's faith. The old man has a hard time with hucksterism. Then there is the Ghostman and his Electric Jesus. Things get weird.
Hollywood Squared
Short Story: Aphelion Webzine
Ace would do anything for his big break -- a starring role in Spade Studios' next blockbuster. Ben, once a star, was just as desperate. In fact, half the town was desperate in one way or another -- and prone to spectacular violence. It was Hollywood, after all.
Ace would do anything for his big break -- a starring role in Spade Studios' next blockbuster. Ben, once a star, was just as desperate. In fact, half the town was desperate in one way or another -- and prone to spectacular violence. It was Hollywood, after all.
The Devil Takes All: as told by Himself
Short Story: Niteblade Magazine
Mortals all know so much about me. They all know my name now, they know what I do. They all know how to keep me away and summon me and contain me. But each only knows a piece. No one knows the Devil.
Mortals all know so much about me. They all know my name now, they know what I do. They all know how to keep me away and summon me and contain me. But each only knows a piece. No one knows the Devil.
The Moonshine Monarch and the Elm
Short Story: Aphelion Webzine
The haunting tale of a vietnam vet returning home to West Virginia and falling in love with a tree...and there's monsters.
The haunting tale of a vietnam vet returning home to West Virginia and falling in love with a tree...and there's monsters.
The Blood Soaked Journal of Captain Killian
Short Story: Fear and Trembling Online Magazine
A Sea-Story so salty that the Devil himself would turn away his eyes.
A Sea-Story so salty that the Devil himself would turn away his eyes.
Pale Son: The Life and Times of Bad Bob
Short Story: Bewilderingstories.com
The most dastardly of villians and the tallest of tall tales.
The most dastardly of villians and the tallest of tall tales.
Blood, Bears, and Canvas
Short Story: Aphelion Webzine
A two-fisted -- well, two-pawed -- tale set in the dark and dirty world of underground interspecies boxing.
A two-fisted -- well, two-pawed -- tale set in the dark and dirty world of underground interspecies boxing.
The Golden Golitah: A Tale of Vegetable Pugilism
Short Story: Interim Magazine
(NOTE: printed publication only)
Bob reckoned it was Martians. Farmer John didn't take his suggestion very seriously .
(NOTE: printed publication only)
Bob reckoned it was Martians. Farmer John didn't take his suggestion very seriously .
Published Novella Descriptions and Links
Beastly
A Beastly duke, A mysterious Beauty and a steampunk France ruled cruelly by emperor Napoleon. It's a twisted take on a classic legend, and a tale as old as time
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The Nine Ronin of Four Waves Castle
What happens when nine masterless samurai take refuge in the same abandoned castle during the most infuential storm of Japanese history? And that castle happens to be home to a swarm of murderous Tengu? And the gods themselves send bandits, Mongols and rival clans at them? Pure blood-soaked action
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Red-Ray Noir
Hungry for a Golden Age Science Fiction Soviet crime novella set in the atomic wastelands of northern Siberia and starring a cast of foul mouthed communists, drunken cosmonauts and ray-gun toting robots? Then drink up Comrades!
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