Author of spooky, fantastical and swoony fiction and blogger of high strangeness.
My new collection, Fragments & Fancies: Ficlets, Flash Fiction & Shorts is now available for FREE on Smashwords. Here’s the official description: Three vampires walk into a bar… A suicidal widower is talked down by a mysterious, chain-smoking stranger with an ulterior motive… A picturesque sea-side chalet harbors a disturbing secret under its serene waters… […]
Read More »*Note: All entries on Ficlets, including mine, are posted under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License. All unattributed writing is by me. All otherwise-attributed writing is [sic]. Two Sizes Too Small “What the hell is that?” It was all she could do not to drop the thing in her hands, it wriggled so much. […]
Read More »*Note: All entries on Ficlets, including mine, are posted under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License. All unattributed writing is by me. All otherwise-attributed writing is [sic]. This is one where I cheated and kept sequeling myself to write a longer story. It’s actually a pared down, revamped version of a longer story I […]
Read More »*Note: All entries on Ficlets, including mine, are posted under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License. All unattributed writing is by me. All otherwise-attributed writing is [sic]. Roommate Tactics
Read More »*Note: All entries on Ficlets, including mine, are posted under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License. All unattributed writing is by me. All otherwise-attributed writing is [sic]. Fairytale Ending
Read More »*Note: All entries on Ficlets, including mine, are posted under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License. All unattributed writing is by me. All otherwise-attributed writing is [sic]. WAITING There she is, in the coffee shop window. She stares out—not at you, but toward you, not really looking at anything. Maybe at the odd snowflake […]
Read More »So Ficlets is shutting down as of Thursday, and the kind folks over at AOL didn’t provide any way to archive or import entries other than “Cut & paste and get off our lawn!” Fortunately, other folks have kindly taken it upon themselves to import all unlocked entries into their own archive, but I’ll feel […]
Read More »I once knew this girl. She wasn’t like the rest of us. She had a special power, one that made her the envy of every woman who ever knew her. You know how some women joke about how they just look at a piece of cake and gain two pounds? Well, for Linda it was […]
Read More »This is the seed of something that will very likely become my next NaNoWriMo project. *** Splinters from the boards over the window dug into her back as strong hands pinned her there with only half as much force as they were able. She would have bruises later, but so what? The cool tongue in […]
Read More »I feel better now, and I wrote a whole five-part Ficlet story that starts here. I actually hid in the bathroom for my necessary fifteen minutes, holding my head in my hands. It worked wonders for my ability to think straight.
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