fiction
ALIEN ANTHROPOLOGIST
Published in Gargoyle Magazine
Stanley tried to casually observe the human data but found it difficult from within the confines of his human costume. His funiculi gouged his compound eyes beneath his costume.
TEMPING AS AN AUTHORITARIAN
Published in the Umbrella Factory Magazine
“Kismet,” Frank clucked at the mail before him. In his left hand, a stack of bills stamped “FINAL NOTICE” and “COLLECTIONS” in an alarming red font included his car payment, student loans, Visa, the mortgage, and a brown pouch containing his divorce papers.
LITTLE UGANDA
Published in Medium and Scars Magazines
When Walton walked into the Seven-Eleven for a bottle of water, he had no idea he was stepping straight into an armed robbery. No sooner was he in the door than he was on the floor...
HEIL & WAG
Published in 2026 Freedom Fiction Anthology
Neighborhood enemies learn to comprehend each other at Children's Hospital when one, who does not speak because of an undiagnosed mental illness, befriends the other when he needs a friend the most.
BLACK HOLE SON
Published in Wordgathering Journal.
The black debris clouds began to accrete immediately after I was diagnosed with a chronic illness. The disease wouldn’t kill me, the doctors informed me, but it would make my life miserable until something else did.
CASHING OUT
Published in AoideMagazine.com
Cops of the future will look like systems administrators today. They loiter at their desks, absorbed by the glow of their monitors running mesmerizing lines of code. These mopes didn’t even take time outside the matrix for lunch.
BLACKOUT BLUES
Published in Scars, Ability Maine, and Breath & Shadows
When the lights go out across the midwest, Benny and Oliver, two low-life thieves, attempt to take advantage of the situation...
REST STOP VILLAS
Published in Medium, Scars, and Down in the Dirt magazines.
Will’s first job after graduating from Michigan was as a junior consultant with McDonald Weatherbee Force, the country’s oldest accounting consultancy and the first rung on the corporate ladder for every master-of-the-universe type with a limitless ego and arrogance oozing from their ears....
SANCTUARY
Published in Literary Heist.
CCTV cameras were positioned in every nook and cranny of Wren’s lilliputian apartment, one of hundreds observing the brain injured residents of the mammoth Michigan Semi-Independent Living Center.
BRUTAL: BUM FIGHT NOIR
Published in A Thin Slice of Anxiety
Derick decked me sloppily, his filthy fist narrowly missing my face but still grazing my ear. I hit the dirt anyway, doing my best to make it look authentic.
THE HIT THAT WOULDN'T QUIT
Published in Close to the Bone
Mo took his time as Charise struggled. Her legs kicked out furiously, sending plates, glasses and silverware crashing to the floor.
BEFORE THE RENAISSANCE
Published in Literary Yard
When cousins Paul and Jerry were young and impressionable, they made good names for themselves in their bad Detroit neighborhood.
KING OF PROM QUEENS
Published in Bristol Noir
In a town of McMansions, Samantha and her father, Duncan, lived in a doublewide trailer. Where German was the favorite country of origin for most vehicles here, Duncan drove a Honda last washed during the Reagan era.
CHRISTMAS QUADRUPLE
Published by Aoide Magazine
He said: What the hell, a quadruple on Christmas? Why was the joint open on Christmas in first place? (pause) Riiight. Non-Jesus freaks had to eat too.
She said: Chinese. This is a Chinese restaurant, ya dinosaur.
DEEP BREATH
Published by Aiode Magazine.
Chained in the brig, iron shackles lacerating my hands to the knuckle, the ancient maritime vessel groaned as if to say she’d seen better days; then heaved to, cresting another thirty-footer and barreled down its backside.