Hello, wizard.

You know what I need to hear.

I’m listening.

Deep in a sunless dungeon, a father struggles to hold onto hope.

Then the glowing notes arrive. They offer freedom—for a very simple price.

But some things should never be for sale, even in the darkest places…

HELLO, WIZARD is a tense dark fantasy of integrity and temptation. 

---

Today, Hello, Wizard turns 5! This is a great short read if you want something dark, but with a hopeful ending.

Buy this ebook short story direct from me today

Click here to buy the ebook from other digital retailers; paperback available on Amazon

 

Apartment walls are thin. Reality may be thinner.

When terrible nighttime noises threaten his sleep and livelihood, a man sets out to track down the source in my creepy midlength story THE GIRLFRIEND WHO WASN’T FROM DELAWARE.

The cover’s long overdue for a revamp…but I still like what I came up with.

People have told me they like the Girlfriend character. I based her off Celine Dion. And I imagine the jumpsuit she shows up in is really cool.

Discover the secrets of THE GIRLFRIEND WHO WASN’T FROM DELAWARE today!

Or click here to buy it from the big box stores (digitally speaking).

 

 

I’ve been sick the past week, not even getting out of bed, let alone LOOKING at my calendar…which is why this first spooky book birthday is belated!

Yesterday, on October third, my home renovation horror story Bona Ossuaria turned ONE! It feels a little older, probably because I did a Kickstarter for it a few months before its official release.

There’s a story behind that.

I got the idea for Bona Ossuaria (AKA “Bona“) after a watching a certain HGTV program for a few seasons. The show has a fun and wholesome vibe–and I still love it–but my writer brain couldn’t help but see things going…let’s say, darkly wrong with the hosts. So when an anthology themed around houses and homes came along, I took the home reno horror story idea and ran with it. 

Bona didn’t get into the anthology, nor into any of the other places I submitted it. But I believed in my little spooky story, and it wound up funding in under a week on Kickstarter, hooray!

If you like slow-burn, female-forward horror stories, give Bona Ossuaria a try today!

 

Now for today’s book birthday.

On this day SEVEN years ago, I published one of my first spooky short stories: What the Cat Brought Back. In it, a loving cat begins bringing his owner terrifying gifts from parts unknown.

This story will probably hit me differently from now on. I dedicated it to my freshman roommate, Erin Murphy, AKA “Roomie.” We were only roommates for a year, but it was a brilliant year of laughter and camaraderie and bad “Homestar Runner” impressions. She moved off-campus the next year and we drifted apart, but I missed her and thought about our friendship long after I departed college.

When we were roommates, she didn’t look anything like the character “Roomie” in Cat. But I had our close relationship in the back of my mind (and her talent for crochet) when I wrote the story.

Last year I learned Erin died from a drug overdose, far, FAR too young. (Don’t do drugs, okay? It breaks people’s hearts.) Checking this blog’s entries, I realize I didn’t get to these book birthdays last year, so I never really talked about it.

Anyway, that background aside, this is a short, macabre read to get you ready for hardcore Halloweentimes. Heck, get this AND Bona and enjoy a Pixelvania creepy double-feature!

Find out What the Cat Brought Back today!