Short Stories
“Tomorrow’s Children”
Perfect Flaw
Published by Seventh Star Press
“Tomorrow’s Children” is a chapter excerpt from the novel After Shocks that looks at a future dystopian society in the year 2091 when, as a means of population control, parents are forced to take their children to the Cryopreservation Center to be frozen until future notice.
“Interview with a Patient – 494772”
Mental Ward: Stories from the Asylum Anthology
Published by Sirens Call Publication
“Interview with a Patient – #0494772” is about a third-year Neuro-Psych student conducting an interview with a psychotic schizophrenic patient, accused of murdering one of the nurses at the Eloise Mental Hospital, where he is institutionalized.
“Holy Angels”
Monsters! Anthology
Published by A Flame in the Dark and Diminished Media Group
“Holy Angels” is a Christian horror about a creature who returns to a small island parish, Holy Angels” to perform a duty, to carry out a service against those parishioners he sees as modern-day Pharisees.
“Purple Pen Prevention”
Glimpses of Insanity Anthology
Published by RainStorm Press
Available on Amazon.com
“Purple Pen Prevention” is about a college English instructor who suffers from OCD of a rare variety and finds herself taking it out on the student papers she grades and, ultimately, on the psychiatrist who treats her.
“The Mardi Gras Masquerade”
Make a Wish Anthology
Published by Project of Static Movement
Available at Amazon.com
“The Mardi Gras Masquerade” is about Jewel Marshall who works in Systems & Repairs at the Bartley by the Bay Hotel in downtown New Orleans who when given the opportunity to make a wish, wishes for something that will change his life forever.
“Wanted: Babies”
Satan’s Toybox Terrifying Teddies Anthology
Published by Angelic Knight Press
Available on Amazon.com
“Wanted: Babies” is a classic horror tale of a young couple who have waited twelve years to have a child, and when RayAnn finally delivers a beautiful baby girl, little does she know that someone else wants her baby just as badly.
“Prince of Blood – 1603”
Why? A Collection of Mysterious Tales
Published by Zimbell House
“Prince of Blood – 1603” is a story about a priest who falls for a beautiful woman. Once he learns that she is to be married to another man, he decides to take action.
“John 20:29”
Terror at the Beach
Published by Noodle Doodle Publications
“John 20:29” is a horror story about a young couple who purchase a cottage on Devil’s Bay. A rumor circulates that every sixty years flocks of gulls descend upon the Bay and destroy human life. A Father Oliver warns the couple about the event, but they choose not to believe.
“The Takeover”
2113 An Oral History of the Last God
Published by The Subtopian Press
“The Takeover” is a dystopian story about a future society where girls thirteen years of age and up are mandated by the Anti-Conception Law to be sterilized. When Matar’s mother takes her to the center for the procedure, the medical team realize that Matar has already been impregnated after a recent rape.
“Then and Now”
After the Fall
Published by Boo Books
“Then and Now” is a dystopian story. The Technology Exterminator, a division of the government, demands that all electronic equipment, including televisions, cell phones, computers and laptops, etc. be destroyed. People are required to bring their equipment to an assigned fire pit in their neighborhood where all pieces will be burnt and destroyed. Three years after the event, statistics reveal there has been a 26% reduction in suicides after people found more satisfying ways to occupy their time.
“The Dogma of the Barbaric Sand Tiger”
Published and available at Thumbnail Magazine
“Unisex”
Published by Filthy Secret Books
“Deception”
Published by Filthy Secret Books
“The Neighbor”
Published by Sounding Review, a literary journal of the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts
Non-Fiction
”A Forever Kind of Never”
Becoming Women of Worth – Stories of Trauma & Triumph
Published by American Mutt Press
“A Forever Kind of Never” is a true story about a mother-child relationship involving an adoption that went terribly wrong.
