There’s more than one kind of monster.When Chase first sees the little girl in umbrella socks disemboweling the Rottweiler, he's not too concerned. As a longtime meth addict, he’s no stranger to such horrifying, drug-fueled hallucinations.But as he and his fellow junkies soon discover, the little girl is no illusion. The end of the world really has arrived. And with Chase’s life already shattered by addiction, the apocalypse might actually be an *opportunit...

Author’s debut, Fiend, was prominently reviewed in venues like MTV, Entertainment Weekly, and SF SignalDebut novel Fiend was published in the UK (Windmill) and France, translated (Super 8 Editions)Author’s essays have been published in The Bellevue Literary Review, The Greensboro Review, Confrontation, Blue Mesa Review, and elsewhere

Elliot Svendson has returned to her childhood Minnesota home to lick her wounds after catching her professor husband between the legs of one of his grad students. Leaving behind a promising academic career, she finds herself raising her five-year-old son solo and working at a Talbot' s in the mall to make ends meet. It' s there that she meets Madison Johnson, a young man with a penchant for skateboards, weed, and older women. What Elliot doesn' t know is that Madison is only seventeen year...

There’s more than one kind of monster.When Chase Daniels first sees the little girl in umbrella socks tearing open the Rottweiler, he's not too concerned. As a longtime meth addict, he’s no stranger to horrifying, drug-fueled hallucinations.But as he and his fellow junkies soon discover, the little girl is no illusion. The end of the world really has arrived.The funny thing is, Chase’s life was over long before the apocalypse got here, his existence a...