Till Death Do Us Part
(This story has never been published before! Happy Halloween! If you like, you can hear me read it on YouTube. Trigger warning: domestic violence.) There’s a laser gun in my purse, and I’m wearing sunglasses to cover the bruises. There’s a tenderness...I am a winner!
I’m excited to announce that I’m a 2024 Firebook Book Award winner in the Short Stories category for Love Stories!Signed Paperbacks!
I now have signed paperbacks in my store! Fair warning: I will ship internationally, but it’s super expensive. I’m so sorry! Contact me for rates. I also didn’t order a lot of author copies, so if it’s more popular than I expected I might need...
Book of Shadows
This story was originally published in Love Stories. When I got home, there was a statement from my retirement account in the mailbox and an eviction notice taped to my front door. I tore open the account statement. My IRA was worth nothing. I guess I shouldn’t...
Minotaur
This story originally appeared in in Alien Abduction: Short Fiction on the Themes of Alien and Abduction, September 28, 2015, and was reprinted in Love Stories. The spires of Miros were tall and slender, much like Ted’s captors. They walked in the streets below...
Grandfather Paradox
This story was originally published in Electric Velocipede, issue #17/18, Spring 2009, reprinted in Escape Pod, March 10, 2011, and reprinted in Love Stories. JUNE 23, 1994 Ann stuffed her blood-spattered clothes into the next door apartment complex’s dumpster. He...
La Divinia Commedia
This story originally appeared in ChiZine, October 2011, and was reprinted in Broad Spectrum: The 2012 Broad Universe Fiction Sampler (October 30, 2012, and in Love Stories. INFERNO Last time this happened, I was Orpheus. Ethan was lost, pale, gone in a haze of...
Underworld
This story was originally published in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination and reprinted in Love Stories. (Also this graphic is adapted from the original publisher’s art.) Tucking his computer science textbook and his Book of Shadows into his backpack,...
Saving Alan Idle
This story was originally published in Escape Pod on July 5, 2013, and reprinted in Love Stories. There’s also a really good audio version by Kyle Akers! In the beginning, there was darkness. And in the darkness were the words. And the words were, AI...Subscribe
