As Claude prepares his surgical instruments for Plain Jane, a petite prostitute he brought back to his motel room, she unnerves him with her cravings for alcohol, inexplicable incidents that belies her plain appearance, and knowledge of the Las Vegas serial killer. Naked underneath a ceiling mirror that exposes all, the wild and passionate sex of a one-night stand begins. One will walk out alive, the other in small pieces.A shorter version of this 3,730-word short story was first p...

With hundreds of police officers lining the street across from the cemetery on one side, and 3,000 Hells Angels attending a funeral and a shooting at the same service inside the cemetery, the resulting traffic jam between the two sides made for an interesting Saturday afternoon on October 15, 2011.This essay IS NOT an account of the funeral for Jeffrey "Jethro" Pettigrew and the subsequent shooting that took place inside the cemetery. This is about what happened outside the cemeter...

Little Suzy and her dog, Spot, are trap inside the detached garage on her late grandfather's ranch in Morgan Hill during a fierce thunderstorm with an unspeakable horror from inside a handcrafted lunch box that hungers for revenge against her family.This 4,000-word short story was first published in the "Big Book of New Short Horror" anthology (Pill Hill Press / September 2011).

After his uncle disappears into the forest with a bucket of lard in hand, Little Billy and his grandfather tracks him down to an isolated area of the family ranch. Along the way he learns about the birds and the bees, what being a girl-crazy teenager meant to his father and uncle, and the dangers of putting his stick into the larded knothole of a tree possessed by something more angrier than a disturbed beehive.An original 2,515-word short story ebook.

After Alejandro the waiter performs a new magic trick that humiliates him in front of the whole kitchen, Johnny the pot washer comes up with a new magic trick of his own to serve up a cold dish of revenge.An original 2,190-word short story ebook.

John Wormwood, a veteran news reporter for The Silicon Valley Gazette, witnesses a satanic human sacrifice that opens the bronze doors of the Rodin's The Gates of Hell statue at Stanford University, unleashing the Horseman of Death into the world, and runs for his life with the biggest Pulitzer Prize winning news story of his career.This 5,340-word short story was first published in Strange Tales of Horror anthology (NorGus Press / February 2011).

Claudia and her three guy friends get more than they bargain for when they pick up the mysterious girl in white hitchhiking on the I-5 in Southern California. Their late night road trip to Mexico takes an unexpected detour when their new friend taunts them about vampires being evolutionary dead enders. With fangs bared in the glare of the headlights, a deadly secret is revealed in a battle royal of the sexes.This 4,975-word short story was first published in Fem-Fangs anthology (Pi...

After confronting a prominent attorney with three young sweet things for not leaving a generous tip, Charles Goodwin, the cannibalistic owner of The Giggling Mongoose, fumes at not being able to teach the old goat a lesson in restaurant manners until the scorned wife makes him an offer he can't refuse.This 5,530-word short story was first published in "Behind Locked Doors" anthology (Wicked East Press, March 2012).

After a retired U.S. Marine sergeant evicts a group of pot-smoking, beer-drinking and promiscuous teenagers from the back stairs of his apartment building, they return that night for cold revenge and dump his dying body inside a shopping cart into the dumpster. His fighting spirit refuses to rest and takes possession of the shopping cart to hunt them down. Their worse nightmare is an enemy that hides in plain sight.An original 9,000-word short story ebook.

Mark has never had a problem walking out of a crowded coffee shop without ever paying for the world's best coffee. The barista always made another one. As he savors the first sip of his illicit brew, Georgia is right behind him and she wants her coffee back.This 1,025-word short story was first published in The MacGuffin (Fall 2009).

A bored intern at the U.S. Department of State mail room takes home mis-routed diplomatic letters to steam off the colorful stamps for her collection, starting a war with an obscure island nation of Nowhere in the South Pacific during the 2008 presidential election.An original 5,560-word short story ebook.

Jeremiah Smithfield, a vampire hunter who spent a lifetime driving the vampires into extinction, returns home after a quarter-century absence to attend the funeral of his former partner. All is not well when he shows up at the funeral with a bouquet of flowers. The angry widow blames him for her husband's death and tries to kill him with a machete. A homicide detective is investigating a vampiric serial killer that no one wants to acknowledge. A mysterious girl in white reveals a family se...