“UNRAVELING” – New story… in a new collection!

It’s been a minute, but I’ve got another short story collection out with the good folks of The TerraGenesis Collective! As with our prior compilations, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night… and The Many Lives of Devon Reeves, the book combines a handful of speculative fiction stories centered around a titular theme — this time, “(In)justice.”

What’s right? Wrong? Who decides which is which, and the respective reward or punishment? For my take on the premise, I wrote “Unraveling“, a real-time horror riff on Clue that gets… complicated.

(In)Justice is available now for free on Smashwords, but if you don’t have an account there and don’t want to make one, please see below instead!

Injustice – An AnthologyDownload

November 14, 2024
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“EX” – Existential Body Horror Creepypasta

Thought I’d pop up with another new spooky story for Halloween! I actually wrote this one a few months ago, and even shared it on some of my socials at the time, but I held off on a broader push in hopes of first making a video version like my last couple creepypastas. However, for would-be illustrations, I had both too little cash for commissions and too much respect for artists to have AI cook it up. Thus, please enjoy this classic-style screenshot sequence (with some flourishes) about the true nature of reality… if you’ve got the guts, that is.

October 30, 2024
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“Gravewells” – A story/poem/thing

New spooky story alert! As is practical of late, I broke it down into a couple of social media-ready images, but it’s ultimately just a short story… I think? I experimented with alternating between poetry and prose, in a manner not unlike the verse-and-chorus structure of a song. It’s a little bit Junji Ito, a little bit Death Stranding (iykyk), and a little bit me working through my perspective on some family stuff of late. 💀🪦

June 19, 2024
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Something about a living baseball bat

So I’ve had this really creepy plastic baseball bat for years, from my grandparents’ old Halloween decorations collection… it looks neat, no doubt, but what’s its story, I wondered? I could probably just Google the punny name on its hilt (“Ghouliville Slugger”), but where’s the fun in that? I’d rather do what I do best: pop on some Photoshop and then essentially just write a lore entry for a nonexistent horror game!

March 14, 2024
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“WHICH WAY” – An old-school creepypasta

If you were online in certain, spooky corners of the internet (for better or worse) in the early 2010s, you probably saw at least one picture like this: an eerie photo with a short story to the side, white text on a black background. These were effectively creepypasta as memes, and when I was getting into the subgenre at the time, I stumbled across a lot of my favorites in this format: easy to share, hard to forget.

So when, as I often do, I took advantage of a creepy photo op and then let my mind wander, I figured I was long overdue to contribute to the form. Share it around, if you like–to see it randomly pop up on another site would honestly be an honor! In any event, these things never did seem to have titles, but if this one did, it’d be two words, one question, and yet infinite possibilities:

WHICH WAY

December 23, 2023
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“On Lateral Beasts” – An Instagram (Horror) Story

Instagram Stories are hot, right? Well, bite-size vertical video is, at least–so, I figured, why not put an experimental spin on my latest short story? To that end, I penned this strange, gross little anecdote inspired by a classic creepypasta or two, with a dash of body horror, and spread it across eight looping images created on the app. All credit is due to the talented Eduardo Valdés-Hevia (aka “Valdevia”), whose regular prompts for fellow spooky artists gave me the general premise (“RITUAL”) and deadline to get this one over the finish line. The intended format is as a series of gifs below, but for a YouTube variant (narrated by me), check out the video above! And remember: even if your body is just a vessel for your flesh, don’t try this at home…

December 7, 2023
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New Short Story: “Repocalypse” (And More!)

Four dark and stormy nights, to be precise!

So my output for at least the last year has chiefly been YouTube content, but I still do write short fiction from time to time. Case in point, I recently contributed to an anthology of scifi/fantasy stories, now available in a variety of formats on Smashwords! It’s a themed assemblage of four tales by four authors, under our umbrella of “The Terragenesis Collective,” which all start with or otherwise incorporate the line “it was a dark and stormy night.” Our goal was to prove that this tired old phrase is still ripe with unique potential, if properly employed–and I feel we succeeded! My contribution, the opener, is called “Repocalypse“; it’s a time loop story, but one unlike any I bet you’ve seen before. In any event, it was a joy and a privilege to collaborate on this collection, and I look forward it to being only the first of many!

As a great author once said, it’s only the end of the world again…

December 5, 2021
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New Short Story(?): “Santaology”

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The jolly is out there.

Merry Christmas, all! Or at least the season thereof! The snow shows no signs of stopping up here in Buffalo, NY, but the warm glow of a computer monitor is comfort enough to keep me going against the cold of wintertime.
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With this optimism in mind, I present to you… well, not a story, per se. Think of it more as helpful information from a world more magical than ours, yet less nonchalant than the one which always seems to exist in movies where adults don’t believe in Santa despite him actually existing. I actually started writing this for last Christmas, but when I realized I wasn’t going to finish it in time, I thought it better to sit on it for a year. And now, as it blessedly always does, the time has come again!
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So enjoy this segment from a popular magazine, Modern Science, as its regular column “Playing the Fields,” devoted to educating readers on lesser-known areas of scientific study, dives into the critical field of…
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Above “original” image credit: this guy.

December 17, 2017
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New Short Story: “Day Job”

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Waiting for the moment.

 

Happy Summer, all!

To beat the heat, I decided to knuckle down with the AC on and finish a story I’ve been kicking around for a few months. It’s a brief bit of a contradiction: realistic, yet outlandish; a joke, yet serious; autobiographical, yet anything but.

In any event, I had fun teasing it out, and I hope you do as well! So grab a coffee, get a seat with a good view of your surroundings, and swipe right to hear about a city kid’s trouble with balancing his passion for writing and his, well…

Day Job

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July 7, 2017
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My First Published Story!

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Well, outside of college-based publications, that is. But yes: My short horror story “Pruritus” is now available alongside eight other cool authors in Issue 44 of the mad, macabre magazine “Sanitarium“! And for a low, low price to boot!

Check out the purchase links below if you’re itching for a good read on…

Amazon Kindle

Google Play

Apple Newsstand

Pocketmags

May 6, 2016
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