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
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
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,
Seeking: Fellow vampire. Loyal. Heavy drinker.
Along an English beach she came at hand. Fair maiden in a decade’s mourning gloom. Then spied she did, a bottle on the sand. A
“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
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
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
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
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,
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