Short Stories / Poems

Here’s a 100-word story I submitted to a contest. The given prompt was Fantasy/fairy tale

Helen wonders what she’ll do when her husband’s date arrives. Slip out unnoticed? The door

This story first appeared in the Fall/Winter 2024/2025 edition of Allegory, a bi-annual online magazine

This story was originally written for a contest that dictated the genre (horror) and had

I got the idea for this story during a conversation with a former co-worker of

This story is loosely based on a personal experience during my first year in the

This short story was originally published in the haunted house anthology Shunned Houses (WordCrafts Press,

This is a commissioned article I wrote for the Spring 2021 edition (Prison Escape Thrillers)

“Ravi had just worked a double shift and was having trouble keeping his eyes open.”

I walk through the meadow holding my hands to my sides, the bluebonnets bending on

Day 1: After two hundred seventy days hopscotching through space I’ve crash landed on a

Bill inputs a series of required numeric codes into the sophisticated trap’s keypad then pairs

I wrote this short story for a contest whose writers had to compose a story

Written on 6/26/24, 3:30 p.m., during the 2024 New Orleans Writing Marathon, at ‘The Vampire

Written on 6/25/24, at the New Orleans Police Station on Royal St.in the French Quarter,

Seeking: Fellow vampire. Loyal. Heavy drinker.

Along an English beach she came at hand. Fair maiden in a decade’s mourning gloom.

“What’s the drinking game of the week?” the bow-tie wearing bartender asked his lone patron,

This piece was written for a writing contest. My prompts were Romance (genre), hard-boiled eggs