Fiction

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• A ‘John’s Fave’ pick! – “The Cowboy’s Curse,” a twisty and thrilling weird western
  • NEW: Reprinted by Speculate This (July 27, 2020 – story starts on page 30)
  • Originally published by SERIAL Magazine (see below)

• “First-date Territory,” an out-of-this-world meet-cute
  • NEW: Published by The Daily Drunk (July 28, 2020)

• A ‘John’s Fave’ pick! – “Gestation in Recess,” a big scandal in a little setting
  • Shortlisted in the Australian Writers’ Centre’s Furious Fiction competition (Dec. 24, 2019)

• “Hard Five,” a warning about the trouble that comes with being a comic who cares
  • Published by The Drabble (Nov. 27, 2019)

• “Impostor Syndrome,” a teenage melodrama with a twist
  • Published by The Drabble (Nov. 6, 2019)

• “Mother’s Warning,” a creepy short horror story
  • Published by Dream of Shadows (May 15, 2020) – Available free online for a limited time (print publication coming soon)

• “Out With the Old,” a tense nighttime confrontation
  • NEW: Published by Suddenly and Without Warning (July 3, 2020)

• “Perfect Jake and the Bank Heist That Goes Wrong,” a time-bendy caper romance
  • NEW: Published in the premiere issue of Briefly Write (June 27, 2020)

• “Professional Boundaries,” an unexpected tale of an unexpected friendship
  • Publishing soon by Intrinsick

• “Pronounced,” a reminder that same-sex marriage begat the apocalypse
  • Published by 101 Words (Oct. 7, 2019)

• “Snow Friend of Mine,” a holiday tale of a young girl and her fluffy white friend
  • Honorable mention in the 2019 Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest (Dec. 14. 2019)
  • Read by the author on the Weird Christmas podcast (Dec. 14, 2019 — story starts around the 14:45 mark)

• “Something in His ‘i’s,” a sci-fi drama about love and loss
  • NEW: Winner of the Johnson County (Kansas) Library Imagine Your Story Writing Contest (July 12, 2020)

• A ‘John’s Fave’ pick! – “Through the Darkest of Stars, Toward the Cruelest of Fates,” a gender-bent sci-fi gothic ghost comedy
  • Published by Bowery Gothic (Feb. 14, 2020)

• “Unscouted Territory,” a cautionary tale about children in the woods
  • NEW: Publishing by Speculate This (July 27, 2020)

• “Wedlock,” a bite-sized piece of modern-gothic horror
  • Published by Trembling With Fear (Feb. 14, 2020)

• A ‘John’s Fave’ pick! – “The Well-trained Thing in Constance’s Dress,” a Lovecraftian comedy with tentacles and frocks
  • Published by The Siren’s Call (Oct. 22, 2019 – story starts on page 161)

• “What That’s Not,” a quick look at a busybody friend
  • Published by 101 Words (Oct. 26, 2019)

• 10-word stories
  • “Just for Now” – published by Potato Soup Journal (July 15, 2019)
  • “Last First Date” – published by Potato Soup Journal (July 28, 2019)
  • “Second Contact” – published by Dime Show Review (Nov. 11, 2019)
  • “Some Ham (At Dinner)” – published by Potato Soup Journal (Dec. 12, 2019)

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Available Now for Purchase

• “All I Want for Christmas Is Kyle McDaniels’ Heart,” a holiday tale of crushes and covens
  • Published in Macabre Ladies Publishing’s Dark Celebration: Holiday Horror Book Four (Sept. 15, 2020) – Available for purchase in paperback or digital

• A ‘John’s Fave’ pick! – “The Cowboy’s Curse,” a twisty and thrilling weird western
  • Published by SERIAL Magazine (March 7, 2020) – Available for purchase in hard copy or digital

• “Frizzyland Fracas,” a theme-park drama
  • Published by Triangle Writers Magazine (April 1, 2020) – Available for purchase in hard copy and digital

• A ‘John’s Fave’ pick! – “Matthew, Oliver, and the Most Epic Prom-posal Westbury High Ever Saw,” a young-adult bromance
  • Published by Triangle Writers Magazine (March 1, 2020) – Available for purchase in hard copy or digital

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Coming Soon

• “A Friend from Childhood,” a mother’s long-buried horror resurfaces
  • Publishing September 2020 in Archer Publishing’s Darker Than Night anthology

• “Wedlock,” a bite-sized piece of modern-gothic horror
  • Reprint publishing September 2020 in Archer Publishing’s Darker Than Night anthology

• “The Well-trained Thing in Constance’s Dress,” a Lovecraftian comedy with tentacles and frocks
  • Reprint publishing September 2020 by peculiar

• “You Peli-can’t Hurry Love,” a tender romance between a woman and a pelican-person
  • Publishing September 2020 by peculiar

• “But Each Night,” a gothic ghost romance
  • Publishing Sept. 27, 2020 by Trembling With Fear

• “Up the Last Hill,” a deathbed confession, many years in the making
  • Publishing Sept. 29, 2020, as Runner-Up in The Story Engine/The Shortest Story 100-word Microfiction Contest

• “Holding,” a ghost-story drama about finding the right answers
  • Publishing October 2020 by Metaphorosis Magazine

• “Something Innocent and Benign,” a fantasy bedtime story
  • Publishing October 2020 by The Weird and Whatnot

• “Butter-drenched Fingers, Clasped Tightly in Prayer,” a historical misadventure
  • Publishing Nov. 1, 2020, by Paper Butterfly Flash Fiction

• “From Pepper Valley,” a long-simmering romance, finally resolved via letters
  • Audio recording coming soon in A Story Most Queer podcast

• “When You Climb Toward, You Also Climb Away,” a 42-word eulogy to a relationship
  • Publishing soon from 42 Stories Anthology

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