Category: Short Stories

Short Stories

The Vampire Sent Me (Journaling, 561 words)

Written on 6/26/24, 3:30 p.m., during the 2024 New Orleans Writing Marathon, at ‘The Vampire Café.’ Solo writing session. The sky drips, the sun dries

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A-Z (Literary, 26 words)

Written on 6/25/24, at the New Orleans Police Station on Royal St.in the French Quarter, with fellow writers during the 2024 New Orleans Writing Marathon,

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Tying One On (Action-adventure, 362 words)

“What’s the drinking game of the week?” the bow-tie wearing bartender asked his lone patron, a regular named Donny who’d arrived in a decidedly more

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Rush (Romance, 97 words)

This piece was written for a writing contest. My prompts were Romance (genre), hard-boiled eggs (object), and climbed (required word). If you haven’t tried these

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Our Greatest Escape (Non-fiction, 1292 words)

This is a commissioned article I wrote for the Spring 2021 edition (Prison Escape Thrillers) of Mystery and Suspense Magazine. Culled from experience from my

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Feeding Time (Horror, 493 words)

Bill inputs a series of required numeric codes into the sophisticated trap’s keypad then pairs it to an app on his phone. The four-by-two foot

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World War 19 (Literary, 4664)

Something in the way he asked the question made Pax frown. “I feel there’s some sort of catch,” she said, eyeing the shifty-looking kid. “No,

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The Switch (Comedy, 919 words)

Teddy stood at the altar and watched his bride-to-be appear through the beveled double glass doors, the white satin train from her gown flowing out