My first book with a real publisher had a very long gestation period. Problem was, I'd told a lot of people that it was coming out about a year and a half before it actually did. In the meantime, I took it upon myself to make these chapbooks. It was an attempt to get something out there, outside of the lit magazines. There were 50 copies of each of the three books. I know that doesn't sound like much, but it was a lot of work, and if I'd thought about what was actually involved in assembli...

One or two things needed to be salvaged from the defunct smog.net blog, so I pulled all the old posts up, went through them and thought, "Hmm, some of this doesn't suck - why not salvage a bunch of this stuff?" So this well thought-out volume came to be. It's best not to think too much, and this nasty little bottle rocket is proof of that. If I'd a thought about it, I never woulda done it, as Bob Dylan said.Carry the entire Internet - the good bits anyway - in your pocket! Just lik...

The first poetry and short story collection from Michael Phillips. Originally published in a small limitation by Mother Road Publications in the 1990s, "alternative man" was unavailable for more than a decade, but is now available in digital editions for the first time.

If you're looking for a poetry and short story collection where trains hit cars, garbage men find heads in trash cans, women throw groceries at men, gurus sheer their flocks, and little girls want to grow up to become dinner plates, this is the book for you.If you aren't looking for those things, you really should be.Phillips blends the all-too-real with the fantastic to deliver one of the weirdest, strongest collections you'll read this, or any year.

Incredulous bus driver Harold Stammer doesn't believe in a lot of things: life after death, safety warnings, and intelligent women, to name a few. People keep trying to tell him otherwise but he doesn't believe them. And when decides to go into a dangerous neighborhood to pick up a free kitten off of Craigslist against friends' advice, what could possibly go wrong?This hysterically funny work of dark humor/horror takes on the "Too Dumb To Live" horror trope from the first person pe...

Cleaning ladies are not always what you think they are. They may give you a gift that you never knew you wanted.

This story is Episode One of a Miniseries Novel. Each story leads into the next one, but is complete by itself.Johnny wants to be a hero, but it isn't all its cracked up to be for him. He runs into a burning building to save a child in danger and finds out he was carrying a ghost. Later on he rescues a teen from a truck accident only to find out she's invisible. What's going on?To make matters worse his favorite cartoon character, a beautiful blonde, is speaking to him from...

A boy takes a dangerous journey with his father. During the journey they go through a war zone and the boy sees many things he does not understad.

This true story about chasing a burglary suspect through a housing project has an unusual ending for the police officers and the suspect. First in the Nine Lives Series of short stories.

Kathy has the perfect life. Her only problem is that sometimes, she yearns for a little excitement. What is she to do when her husband turns the usual Saturday night card party into dancing lessons for her and her girlfriends? What if the instructor is a handsome, suave Venezuelan who is dripping with charm? Will he be an act too tough for Kathy's husband to follow?

There are reasons why humans should stay out of houses that are haunted. I advise the reader to only read this on a dark Halloween night with the wind howling and the rain beating against the windows. If you are alone, well, that's not advised. To contemplate the outcome…………..

A short story. A man finds himself on the run from the mysterious "hunters". But things are not always what they seem.