My short humor piece An Open Letter to Those Who Declined My Facebook Event Invite has been accepted by The Weekly Humorist. The title should be self-explanatory, but just in case it’s not: I’m very disappointed in you.

It is with great disappointment that I write to you today, the day after our Ninth Annual Footie Pajama Game Of Thrones Bar Crawl.

My flash fiction stalker story Influenced has been accepted by The Stygian Lepus, a new publication debuting in March 2023. It’s a story about blurring the lines between reality and fantasy, and what happens when your dreams finally come true.

Content warning(s): stalking

The stranger passes his purchases over the Home Depot self-checkout scanner. Sweat glistens on his round face.

Trash bags. Duct tape. Hammer. Bleach. Scrub brush. Hacksaw. Plastic tarp.

He pays with cash.

My flash fiction story Before has been accepted by Dread Stone Press for an upcoming issue of Dose of Dread. It’s about a baby in the womb who suddenly realizes she’s not alone.

I don’t know where she came from, or when she appeared. I just know that I’m not alone in here anymore. There is another now. A Not-Mother. A Not-Me. A Third.

My horror drabble In Sickness has been accepted by Trembling With Fear from The Horror Tree. For better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health…

My cyberpunk story A Free Man has been accepted by the Simultaneous Times podcast by Space Cowboy Books. In a world where you can purchase a synthetic replica of a person from a vending machine, the best person to frame for a crime you committed may be … yourself.

The glass door slid open with a whoosh, releasing a rush of supercooled air into the store. Steam swirled and spiraled around the synthetic as he stepped from the fab unit and smiled up at his human father. “Hey, Dad. Where’s Mom?”

A sob hitched in the man’s chest. He hugged the boy, then took his hand. “Come on. Let’s go find her.” 

My body horror drabble Only We has been accepted into the Love Me, Love Me Not anthology by Black Hare Press. How close can a couple get before they’re not a couple anymore?

My drabble A Hallmark Ending has been accepted to the Love Me, Love Me Not anthology by Black Hare Press. It’s the perfect fairy tale: a city girl returns to her small home town to reunite with her hunky high school crush … whether he likes it or not.

My historical horror story Everything As It Was has been accepted by Illustrated Worlds Magazine for their second issue. Set in the dust-plagued landscape of 1930s Oklahoma, it’s a story about lost hope, lost faith, and lost children come home.

“I prayed that you’d come home, and the crops would come back, and everything would go back to how it used to be. And now, glory be, here you are.”

Two of my horror drabbles—First Kiss and Holding Hands—have been accepted into the Love Me, Love Me Not anthology by Black Hare Press. Each examines a different phase of a couple’s relationship, from the twisted start to the heartbreaking end.