This is an older ghost story of mine. It was inspired by a true story of a young man who died of alcohol poisoning as part of a fraternity hazing ritual. Supposedly on Halloween a bunch of other college kids dressed up as him when they went out partying on the streets of the college town. After hearing this story I wo...
As usual, I'm up to my eyeballs in trouble. With the fate of mankind hanging in the balance, I'm on a new mission to stop the Dark Ones from unleashing a second wave of attacks that promises to destroy the world as we know it. But first I have to find Thomas and save him from the clutches of Vycandor before it's too l...
Read the first five chapters of the New York Times bestselling Cinder by Marissa Meyer on Wattpad! Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one gi...
In her mind, LIna had no past, no present, and no future. She was left of the steps of a church the day she was born and was adopted. She fears she will never amount to anything as great as the mysterious masked guardians of her town. Constantly bullied about her superficial being she decides to end it all. Just befor...
An emotional roller coaster revolving around a lady and her husband who isn't what he appears to be. What will happen when things go south?
To what extent would you to to get admitted to an organization you have been dreaming about your entire life?
A Christmas ghost story. Ghosts are usually associate with old places which have a lot of history, but a building doesn't have to be ancient to have the kind of history that might involve a ghost. This story was originally posted on my blog as a single piece. Because it's a very long story (nearly 10,000 words), I've...
As the title suggests, this ghost story is another one with a very contemporary feel. Beth, recently widowed and sufferng debilitating grief, begins receiving text messages from her dead husband's phone.
A little ghost story about a camping trip and the tales we tell around the campfire---and the stories we don't tell... This is one of my oldest short stories, which has been out of print for a long time.
Short story. How we treat our fellow human beings always matters, but when almost everything you've ever know is gone, the rules of etiquette change a bit. How do you treat strangers when everyone is a stranger? What do you say to the person you're not speaking to?
This short story was written at dawn one morning when I was awakened by my dogs. As I was trying to get back to sleep, in that hypnogogic state, I saw a sheep with a hole in its head. The whole story unspooled itself in my mind word by word until I was fully awake and writing The Shepherd of the Uncanny Valley. It's a...
*AVAILABLE ON AMAZON* The third in the ROUGE series ... 'The true heroes are the ones who have courage, even when they have no power at all.' After Hunter and Will are rescued from the terrifying institution and brought to the safe house where the others are hiding out, Hunter is met with several new challenges; facin...
*AVAILABLE ON AMAZON* The second in the ROUGE series ... Everyone is wrong about hell. Vulnerable and weak after her battle with her guardian Joshua, Hunter is snatched up by the Agents who work for a ruthless and cold institution called ICE. There, Hunter is imprisoned with other mutants of different ages and abiliti...
*AVAILABLE ON AMAZON* The first in the ROUGE series ... Hunter Harrison is no superhero. She doesn't wear a cape, or a lycra suit, or prance around dark alleyways looking for punk-ass kids to torment. But Hunter has a power; the power to control fire. And it is one nasty flame brewing in her soul. In the midst of...
I climbed out of my watery grave stronger, deadlier, and even more powerful than before with one mission on my mind. And one mission only. Revenge. First order of business? Find the witch who turned my friends into flesh eating monsters, and make her pay. Second order of business? Make her pay some more. If it's a fi...
The name's Chaos. Chaos Killbourne to be exact. People call me reckless, but they're wrong. I'm more like the perfect storm. Destroy an entire city with a single glance? I can do that. Wipe mankind off the face of the earth once and for all? I can do that too. Born to lead a revolt of epic proportions so the Dark Ones...