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Just Enough Rope-Free Fiction
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This is a short story that lead to a sequel short story and then spawned my second novel, Spiders in the Daffodils. I did a cursory re-edit for the website and damned, if I don’t still like this story and the world that came along with it as well. I borrowed a bit from…
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The Turbulent Flight Home
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A million years ago (in two thousand fifteen,) I had a story in an anthology that took place in the very same universe as Night of the Living Dead. Called, Rise of the Dead, the idea was to have various stories that took place ideally on the same day as the original movie, but…
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A Box of Candy-Summer Short Fiction
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It’s July and it’s more than time to return to “FREE FICTION.” As you may or may not know, I have a ton of Christmas stories, but very few summer tales. I honestly don’t know why this is exactly. I like summer horror tales and movies. “Jaws is a lovely year round movie, but…
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All These Steps Lead Down Live
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In the middle of the COVID 19 pandemic, there was a super fun live reading at Chatham University on October 14th, 2021 featuring authors Sara Tantlinger, Douglas Gwilym, Michael Arnzen and the mighty Jocelyn Codner. And me? I was the opening slab of storyteller. It was a fun evening for all involved especially for…
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The Good Bye
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Something a little new here on the site….a “live” reading. This story was written nearly 20 years ago and rewritten for a Halloween reading in 2022 with my pals from the Pittsburgh Chapter of the HWA. It was a fun and good time! Let me know what you think!
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The Dinner Conversation
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Here are two friends having a lovely dinner chat about life, death and a nice bag of potatoes.
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