A 150 word crime-flash using 10 prompts from the titles of Anne Cleeves’ novels. CORPSE WITH GANNETS by Susan B.… Read more A FLASHWORDS WINNER AT THE 2019 CRIME BAKE
Category: Fiction
A VSS365 TWEET ANTHOLOGY
Collected shorts poetic, dark, eerie, and amazing. See them (with one of mine) at VSS365 Anthology Volume One available on… Read more A VSS365 TWEET ANTHOLOGY
A FAIRY TALE: THE LITTLE HOUSE THAT COULD
A whimsical and highly anachronistic re-telling of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ and the little house that saved them from the stew… Read more A FAIRY TALE: THE LITTLE HOUSE THAT COULD
WARTIME SPARROWS: short story
A post World War II mystery about American servicemen in Great Britain and the suspicious death of a local girl. … Read more WARTIME SPARROWS: short story
THE MANY WAYS OF HEARTBREAK
THE MANY WAYS OF HEARTBREAK: A schoolgirl’s determination to remain in her native Manhattan, whatever the cost, sends her… Read more THE MANY WAYS OF HEARTBREAK
TWEETS 70+ ’19
The weather is near sentient here. Winds scraping the planet’s arid surface carry the detritus of bitter salts & granular… Read more TWEETS 70+ ’19
THE DRAGON HARPIST
An upper middle-grade Work-in-Progress in the final stages of editing: A post-Earth fantasy adventure… Read more THE DRAGON HARPIST
THE MURDER BOUTIQUE
In the Journal of Speculative Fiction, Kyanite Press (Issue 5/Vol. 1/May-June 2019) pages 64-75. In a world of universal surveillance,… Read more THE MURDER BOUTIQUE
CHEVROLET/FATHER ISSUES
She came out of the rest room, looking like her usual sprayed-in-place self. She’d been inside over 30 minutes, ice-packing… Read more CHEVROLET/FATHER ISSUES
2019 TWEETS TO KEEP THRU MARCH/30+
An A-frame house at the end of the trail, the family decamped. It succumbs to nature’s magical reclamation of purloined… Read more 2019 TWEETS TO KEEP THRU MARCH/30+