The audio production of my horror drabble Everything You Know About Witches is now available for free from the Tiny Frights podcast. It’s about a woman about to be burned at the stake, and the (mostly) mistaken assumptions that sent her there.
The audio production of my nostalgic 1980s “kids on bikes” horror story Many Deaths Before Dying is now available on The NoSleep Podcast. When a giant, silvery puddle appears in the field where they play, four boys encounter an inexplicable horror that will change them forever.
I’ve had a number of stories produced by The NoSleep Podcast over the years, but this is the first full-length story that has appeared in a regular episode. It took almost two years for this to be released, but I’m so happy with the end result. They did an excellent job with the casting and production.
Content warning: suicide (implied)My story starts around 44:45.
My weird fiction story The Salt Circle has been published in the latest issue of Moonday Mag. It’s a like a werewolf story, but with slugs. Yeah.
“I just don’t want you to get hurt,” Linda said, wiping at her nose with a soggy, crumpled tissue. “I’m worried about you.”
I extended my eye stalks toward her, giving her what I hoped was a look of indignation. I couldn’t believe she was trying to spin it like it was my fault. “If you didn’t want me to get hurt, maybe you shouldn’t have been so quick to deploy the chemical weapons.”
She waved her tissue with a dismissive gesture. “It’s just a little salt.”
The audio production of my underwater horror story A Sinking Feeling is now available to listen to for free on the Ocean Horror Stories: Part 1 episode of the Lunatics Radio Hour. It’s the story of two survivors trapped in an air pocket in a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean. And they’re not alone.
Content warning: child neglectMy story starts around the 23:00 mark.
The animated version of my post-apocalyptic horror/sci-fi story One Last Step has been released on the Storiaverse app, which combines original animation with text to create a unique interactive reading experience. The app is now available for free on both iOS and Android.
My dark sci-fi story Arrivals at Hope Station Have Been Indefinitely Postponed is one of the Top 10 Stories of 2024 on Stupefying Stories. It’s framed as an urgent announcement on an interdimensional travel platform.
Attention, Travelers. Due to circumstances entirely within our control—but beyond our collective will to change—all arrivals at Hope Station have been indefinitely postponed, and the Station is now closed. Travelers entering the Station should abandon Hope and proceed to the exits immediately.
This story was published back in February, so I am pleased to announce that—as of July 21—Hope Station has resumed service.
My Halloween horror story, Uncle Pumpkin’s Tongue, has been published in Issue 5 of 7th Circle Pyrite. It’s about a Halloween carnival ride with a sinister secret.
I wish I had warned someone about Uncle Pumpkin. Maybe I could have stopped him. Maybe I could have saved those poor kids. But until recently, I had no memory of the man at all. It was only after the bodies of the missing children were found—one boy still clutching a deflated pumpkin balloon in his shriveled, blackened hand—that I remembered what happened that night. And I realized that one of those kids could have been me.
The audio production of my dark sci-fi story A Piece of the Sky has been released as part of The Lost Poetry Club podcast’s inaugural episode, The Chronicle. Almost all of my stories have been produced as audio versions, and I can confidently say that this is one of the best. It’s not just a narrator reading the story—it’s an actor performing the story as a monologue, and it is extraordinary.
The story is told through the testimony of the surviving member of a two-person asteroid mining crew that picked up an unfortunate souvenir during their expedition.
Content warning: goreMy story starts right around the 38:00 mark.
My weird horror story Molehills is featured in the 5 Scary Stories That Will Carry You Away episode of the Chilling Tales for Dark Nights podcast. When a woman tries to return home after visiting her abusive father, she discovers that the road is closed … but just for her.
Content warning: child abuse (implied)
My holiday horror drabble Dead Bulb has been published by Pulp Asylum. It’s about a string of holiday lights powered by souls captured at the moment of death.
