Seattle is well known to be a weird city. However, people might not realize just how weird it is.

If you go down that road less taken, you never know what you might find in an obscure little dive bar out in the mountains.

Will lifting the curse on the valley be a good thing? Perhaps the curse is what makes the valley special. Originally published in Sorcerous Signals, 2000.

What would happen if all the greatest science fiction writers got together to duke it out in a best writer takes all competition?

From "Tales of a Texas Boy" - stories my father told to me, and I wrote them down as best I could. This particular story is about my father's father, so I really did have to imagine a lot of it. It's all about the heavy cost of war.

One woman finds a horror in a porta-potty which will haunt her forever. It's no joke.

A friend asked me to write a story about a purple moose and a kid named Billy Kick-Butt. I don't think this is what he had in mind, but it's what I decided to write. The inspirational photo is of Leroy Sutton and Dartanyon Crockett. One blind, the other legless. How great is that friendship? Copyright Cleveland.com photo.

Even hunters can become the hunted.

In light of the new reports on torture, I thought it appropriate to reprint this story written several years ago.