Short Stories

  Small nibbles to whet your appetite

  At any given time I may have up to a dozen stories on the market  -- I do wish I was better at rejection collecting

Image courtesy Starfarer's Cafe

THE FATHER OF CATS

A talefrom a distant world of an old man facing his mortality. But before he dies, there is one last task to perform


Appeared April 29, 2026 on Starfarer's Cafe


 

  • Science Fiction
  • 6,800 Words


AMONG THE DEAD 101

A blend of  classroom and the apocalypse, is 


First appeared in Dark Horses: The Magazine of Weird Fiction No. 52: May 2026.


 

  • A light zombie story -- and politics.
  • 4,500 Words


HER MOTHER'S OTHERS

A young girl, Cal comes to grips with a new home that is farther away than she ever imagined. 


Appeared in the June 2021 Issue of The Chamber Magazine


This story is available for reprint!

 

  • Contemporary Dark Fiction
  • 4,800 Words


Ryder McCoy, one of the few humans left to have a rating as a Spaceman faces a pickle while trying to save his cargo and himself.


First appeared in Pulp Adventures #48


 

  • A  pulp from the good old days.
  • 3,500 Words


JUSTICE

A transported convict, abandoned on a strange world, left to survive, or die, finds that friends come in all shapes and sizes.


Appeared first in Mystic Mind Collection #8


Also available in audio format, narrated by Alex McCaulley from my friends at Kirin Comics

  •  Science Fiction
  • 4,000 Words

A bureaucrat and his sister clean house after their mother has passed away only to discover a dark secret.


Appeared first in August, 2024 n Freedom Fiction Journal


  •  Dystopic Science Fiction
  • 2,400 Word

Photo by Aldebaran S on Unsplash

The last remaining member of an abandoned deep space station, keeps vigil and waits.


Appeared first in New Myths Magazine #65


  • Science Fiction
  • 4,000 Words

1000 MILES

An open-road truck driver tries to find the meaning of life in the great inbetween. Instead, he finds a connection to his past.


Appeared first in Whistling Shade Literary Journal, Winter 2026


  •  Science Fiction
  • 4,000 Words

Photo by me

An old woman at the end of her days is aided by a rummage sale find to remember her life for good or bad.


First appeared in Literally Stories


  • Supernatural Fiction
  • 2,000 Words

In a dystopian future, an assassin discovers she has membership in an ancient order. Blood, guts, sexual situations abound.


First appeared in Schlock! Webzine: Volume 18 Issue 10


  • Cyberpunk/Dystopian Fiction
  • 9,200 Words