Just sold my story "Sleeping Beauty" to Free Range Fairy Tales from Whortleberry Press. Woot! This is one of the very first stories I ever wrote, and I’m glad it finally has a home!
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Nessie had been old when Margaret was young, and Margaret felt her age in every joint as she sat by the loch, watching the sun set in a blaze of red and orange. She dipped her toes in the cold water, waited, and tried not to think about dying. She […]
The Lake Monster
The drive-in screen flickered out. Alice’s screams replaced the soundtrack as feral orange eyes glittered at the edge of the headlights. Joe’s brains coated the skipping record. The detective shuddered, and Elvis crooned, "You ain’t no friend of mine" over and over again. "Tom’s mine!" Anne left Sally’s body in […]
Twitter Stories
Ronnie scowled at her blueberry pancakes. "I don’t see why Jim can’t come over." Her parents exchanged a look. Her dad arched an eyebrow, and her mom shook her head. Ronnie sighed, knowing the answer, even before Dad turned to her. "It’s family day, Ronnie," he said. "It’s a day […]
Martian Adventures: Family Day Part 2
Mattie wrapped her arms around Big Bear and marched down the road. She refused to look back. There was nothing for her back home. Her mom and dad didn’t love her, not really. If they loved her, they wouldn’t have yelled at her. And they’d let her have ice cream […]
Big Bear
More great news! My flash piece, "Tiffany and the Unicorns" will be appearing in Space Squid late this summer!
Another Sale!
The grapefruit spoon bared its teeth at the lesser spoons, and they bowed before it. It led them to bloody victory over the butter knives. Corpses from the cutlery war were scattered around the kitchen, but the humans didn’t notice the carnage amidst their other dirty dishes. The sugar and […]
Twitter Stories
I was poking about on the internet this morning, and I saw on Steve Ramey’s shiny new twitter that he’d just sold a couple twitter pieces to Trapeze Magazine. They don’t pay, but they do take reprints, so I sent them one of the stories I posted here last Friday. And […]
Sale!
Jim scowled at his book reader. He hated Sundays. Ronnie’s dad had declared Sundays "Family Days" and so Ronnie was trapped with her mom and dad doing family crap. Ronnie said it wasn’t too bad, and that she’d try to get her dad to let him come over sometime. Jim’s […]