“Song of the Deep Wood” in Daikaijuzine

Yhvie and her loyal dog, Frida, live carefree days in their cabin home on the side of a mountain near Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina. Until one day a strange bird flitters into their lives, and the little songling changes everything. Featuring other stories and poetry by Scott Branchfield, Sonny Zae, Jason P. Burnham, …

“Unknown Ancestry” in Mythaxis Magazine (UK)

Thrilled to have my story "Unknown Ancestry" published, in which a young man's journey to understand his history after an inconclusive Internet DNS test goes farther astray with each step. Available in the Spring 2021 issues of Mythaxis Magazine.This issue includes great stories from Subodhana Wijeyeratne, Jack Mackenzie, Meg Candelaria, Micah Hyatt, Gregory L. Norris, …

“Outside of Everything, There Is Nothing” in Tales From Omnipark

From 1977 to 2003, OmniPark thrilled, astonished and educated guests of all ages. ...or did it? My story "Outside of Everything, There Is Nothing" features in this shared universe anthology. Includes stories by Brian Evenson, Gemma Files, Ben Thomas, Orrin Grey, Maxwell I. Gold, Alicia Hilton, Pedro Iniquez, and others. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0578836173

“Apoctatryptamine©” in Vastarien: A Literary Journal

Adnan Vonus, who some have called a mad scientist, has discovered the "God pill," which allows the user to step through potential alternate futures and choose the one in which they always survive, thus leading to immortality. (Based loosely on the quantum suicide thought experiment.) My story "Apoctatryptamine©" appears in this double issue of Vastarien, …

“They Always Dreamed of Falling” at Bewildering Stories

My slipstream story "They Always Dreamed of Falling" in Issue 879 of Bewildering Stories is about the ghosts that haunt a woman who once fell 10,000 feet from the sky. With other fiction and poetry from Natan Dubovitsky, Bill Kowaleski, J. H. Malone, Harrison Kim, Heather Pagano, João Ventura, and Jo-Ann Newton. http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue879/blurb.html

Chapter 3 of Devil’s Gulch

This collaborative novel, featuring a talented group of authors, tells the stories of the townsfolk when something sinister is unleashed on the Utah town Devil's Gulch. Each chapter centers on a different character as the monster ravages everything it comes across. I wrote chapter three about the sheriff, Percy Hill, and his mama, who do …

“Cusp” in Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine

Aboard a life ship that left Earth a hundred years ago to escape that dying world, Sophia, an alternate or non-human entity, is approached by a man named Nestor who may be an elder god in disguise. He simply wants to discuss how titillated he is by her kind, now that he's grown bored of humans. …

“The Bright Spot in the Wall” in Anthology of Bizarro

Stanley barely makes it by working at McDonald's and renting a basement apartment from an old, German man. That is until he finds a glowing hole in his wall, which leads to...well, he doesn't really know until he's prompted to investigate by his new girlfriend, Stacy, the love of his life. My story “The Bright …

Guest Spot on Haunted Travels: Glenn Dale Hospital

I have a little ghost-ish story as a guest spot on Rena Mason's Haunted Travels, as part of the August HWA newsletter. Glenn Dale Hospital is a real place, though the story may be slightly embellished by 30 years of haze. More important, the story allows me to promote southern Maryland, my home and a place …

“Hammer Dulcimer” in 32 White Horses on a Vermillion Hill

My story "Hammer Dulcimer" appears in Volume 2 of this anthology from Planet X publications, a two-volume charity collection to help fellow writer, Christopher Ropes. It features stories & poems generously donated from members of the weird fiction & horror communities. Christopher has a condition called dentinogenesis imperfecta, which causes discolored, brittle teeth, and has …