Short story published in Anthology

Friends, I have a confession to make. Some of my writing time has been… diverted… to a side project. I was invited by Jim Bernheimer to contribute a short story to “Horror, Humor, and Heroes Volume 2: New Faces of Fantasy.” It’s now available on Amazon, a little sooner than I expected, here: http://astore.amazon.com/viridiandreams-20?_encoding=UTF8&node=17  I haven’t … Read more

An Enigmatic Prologue

What I have below is the introduction to An Ogre’s Story…  Did I achieve spookiness, or merely incomprehensibility? “TURNING and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is … Read more

The Inhabitants of the Bunny Hutch…

Here are some of the original stories I’ve been working on: The Deal – contemporary fantasy set in the midwest. This is probably the closest thing I have to a publishable original novel. Still trying to get a publisher interested. I may just suck at writing summaries … the whole process seems … immodest, somehow. Yes, I’m aware … Read more

The Tourney

William hefted his shield and ducked down as the axe descended. He was well-braced and kept his footing as the weapon glanced off the irregular pentagon of layered wood strapped to his left forearm. Before his opponent could recover, he straightened his upper body and lunged forward, sword arm uncoiling like a whip.  His sword … Read more