It had been an extremely busy day. Car crashes, death sentences, sick children, and freak accidents. Each of them were unique but similar in that he was there to usher them onto the next leg of their journey. His final appointment for the night (but he did not know that at the time) was with … More Intermission for Death – Excerpt
On my Facebook author page, I wrote a post about my last minute push to complete a story in time for submission (post can be found here). That short story was published as “Double Trouble” (I HATE that title) in the anthology Grey Matter Monster. Below is a teaser from my short story. This is not … More Teaser Tuesday:Double Trouble
Current Word Count: 50,285 – Winner It was a really good idea, if not a bit ambitious. The plan was for me to blog my way through NaNoWriMo. Originally, it was going really well. Until real life came and kicked my butt. There was the car accident which resulted in cancelled vacation plans (so much … More NaNoWriMo 2016 Wrap-Up & A Sample From “Tree of Life”
There was no music only a punching bass that reverberated off the walls in order to provide some type of distraction to the victims inside. They were all victims and most of them had not even realized it. What else would you call people who were slaves to an external force that they could not … More The Crowd
The sky turned a beautiful orange, pink and purple. The clouds swirled by in thick green whisps. It would have all looked pretty amazing, if it was not deadly. Parents saw the puffy green clouds and started rushing their children indooors. Office drones that first noticed the clouds spread the words throughout the cubicles. It was … More The Rains
Although i had never seen him, I could feel his gaze everytime I walked past the door. It was like a chill so severe it burned. In the rare occasion where the door was left partially opened, I would steal small glances into the room. However, fear kept me from looking at the creature full … More Next Door
One of the things I remember as child was learning the constellations. Stories of heroes who battled the gods and ended up in the sky. Of all the stories I was told, none stood out more to me than that of Orion. In the warm night I walked past several crowds of people. Loud people, … More Orion’s Belt
Autumn stared at her computer. The usual executives walked by not once noticing her vacant gaze. As long as the work kept getting done, she could be in a coma at her desk. Little did they know in those moments, she might as well have been. She was beyond the cubicle walls, away from the … More Autumn
Stan shut off the car and pulled up his collar. It was pouring outside and he planned to only have rush into the grocery stole and run right back out. There was a roast in the oil den and hen did not want to risk, overlooking it. Everything for the night was perfect: the roast, … More Grey Goose
As a child, I found it very difficult to concentrate in class. Everything distracted me from my teacher but what held my attention most was a large red bird with blue wings. This bird had a nest in the big tree outside the window. Often I would spend my classtime daydreaming about the adventures this … More The Bird
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