The audio production of my horror story Feed the Worm is now available for free from The Night’s End Podcast. It’s an awesome production with lush soundscapes and nightmare sound effects that really heighten the suspense and terror. The screams at the end make the conclusion even more horrifying than I imagined when I wrote it.
The full audio production of my horror story Everything As It Was is now available to listen to for free on The Creepy Podcast. Set in the dust-plagued landscape of 1930s Oklahoma, it’s a story about lost hope, lost faith, and lost children come home.
This story originally appeared in Night Terrors Vol. 1 by Scare Street, and was reprinted in The Omens Call by Devil’s Rock Publishing. You can read it online for free here.
The Tales to Terrify podcast has produced my short horror story Baby Food as a standalone episode. It’s a story about pregnancy, giant insects, and a camping trip gone horribly wrong. As usual, the narrator did an incredible job, perfectly nailing the pace and tone. The story starts at around the 6:40 mark and runs for just under an hour. You can listen to it on any of your favorite podcast apps and websites:
You can also read the story online, or buy the All Dark Places 3 anthology where it originally appeared.
And if you missed the earlier Tales to Terrify episodes featuring my stories, check out their productions of Something’s Wrong With Mom and Those Who Turn From God.
The audio version of my underwater horror story A Sinking Feeling is now live on The Creepy Podcast. It’s the story of two men trapped in a small pocket of air as their ship sinks to the bottom of the ocean. But they’re not alone.
You can listen to it for free on your favorite podcast service:
If you’d prefer to read the story instead of listening, you can find it here.
My sci-fi circus drabble Showtime has been published in Dark Moments by Black Hare Press.
My post-apocalyptic horror story Close Your Eyes has been produced as an audiobook by Chris Herron at Tall Tale TV. Chris did an amazing job with the narration, perfectly capturing the pacing and mood of the story. The production runs about 18 minutes long, and is available to listen to and download for free.
My dystopian political story Unarmed has been published by Metastellar. It’s a story about a citizen fighting back against a cult-like authoritarian leader who is driving the country toward another Civil War. I wrote it in mid-2020, before the last election, and before the Jan 6th insurrection. It’s scary and sad how prescient it has ended up being. Hopefully life will stop imitating art before we’re this far gone. It’s available to read for free here.
My short horror story Baby Food from the All Dark Places 3 anthology was selected as one of the three Editor’s Picks for 2021 by the editor of Dragon Soul Press.
My holiday microfiction Up on the Rooftop has been released by The NoSleep Podcast as part of their latest Sleepless Decompositions episode. The story starts at around 5:20 and runs a quick 60 seconds or so.
Something’s Wrong With Mom, my short horror parable about addiction and depression, has been published by the Tales to Terrify podcast. The story starts around the 6:45 mark and runs about 15 minutes. It’s one of my personal favorites that I’ve written, and Tales to Terrify did an amazing job with it.
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