SPECULATIVE FICTION

These are my science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories. The periodical listed after each title is where the story first appeared. See BIBLIOGRAPHY for a more detailed publication history.

ss = short story
ff = flash fiction
mf = micro-fiction

Current (2021-present)

Moon Masks (Weird Fiction Quarterly 2024) - ff

Love Child (Weird Fiction Quarterly 2024; collaboration with Manuel Paul Arenas) - ff

The Thing at the Dream Gate (JOURN-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature 2024; flash fiction accepted as prose poem) - ff

In Dreams (Flash Digest 2024; prose poem accepted as flash fiction) - ff

Dam Bones (Weird Fiction Quarterly 2024) - ff

Lord, I'm Comin' Home To You (Weird Fiction Quarterly 2023) - ff

Ghoul of the Ash (Weird Fiction Quarterly 2023) - ff

Slishra-Ew (Weird Fiction Quarterly 2023; prose poem accepted as flash fiction) - ff

The Lumberjack's Beard (Weird Fiction Quarterly 2023) - ff

Ynè-Kee's Journey (Weird Fiction Quarterly 2022) - ff

Olivegoyle (The Gargoylicon: Imaginings & Images of the Gargoyle in Literature and Art; 2022 anthology from Mind's Eye Publications) - ff

Cephalopod Transmission One (Lovecraftiana: The Magazine of Eldritch Horror 2022) - ff

A Changed Man - ff

As Lovely as a Whale - ff

Wilbur and the Train Track Ghosts (non-extant) - ff

Off the Earth Hook-Up (non-extant) - ff

In the Poets' Court - ff

2010-2020

Aliens and Dinosaurs (unfinished draft; abandoned) - ss

Blackout Killer, The (Tales to Terrify, audio podcast 2016) - ss

Bright Moon Stray (Flashshot 2012) - ff

Chapel of the Pitch Black Forest (unfinished draft; abandoned) - ss

Charon Falls into the Styx (Bards and Sages Quarterly 2012) - ff

Cocky Fisherman, The (unpublished) - mf

Dark Island, The (aka Potawatomi Island) (Electric Spec 2015) - ss

Deal Down at the Hospital (MicroHorror 2012) - ff

Emily's Meadow (Schlock! Webzine 2013) - ss

Girl with the Crooked Spine, The (Electric Spec 2014) - ss

Hunchback's Captive, The (The Horror Zine 2014; Editor's Pick Writer, October) - ss

Not for Mortal Eyes (Disturbed Digest 2014) - ss

Of Trysts and Hellbenders (unfinished draft; abandoned) - ss

Penumbra (Black Petals 2011; Editors' Choice at Bewildering Stories 2012) - ff

Red Icicles (Flashes in the Dark 2011) - ff

Soulsucker (Schlock! Webzine 2014; collaboration story) - ss

Spiral of Flies (Morpheus Tales 2013) - ss

Strings (NewMyths.com 2012) - ff

Tramp Clown's Secret, The (Space and Time Magazine 2014) - ss

Unfortunate Heartbreak of Faritook the Earwig, The (State of Imagination 2011) - ff

Before 2010

An Interview with Creepyboy Jack (juvenilia; unpublished) - ff

Current Theory of the Otherworldly Head (unfinished draft; abandoned) - ss

Dead Man Who Appears, The (Spire Magazine 1998; also a 1999 Pushcart Prize nominee) - ss

Heart that Sizzled in the Devil's Palm, The (hard copy only; unpublished; possibly an alternate title to "The Third Layer," which was a finalist at the 4th Annual Skyway Writers Festival) - ss

Johnny No One (juvenilia; unpublished) - ff

Prairie, The (hard copy only; unpublished) - ss