Penitentiary Pool Boy
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FICTION NEWS
A New Story, And Other Big News
First things first, because I know you love first things: There’s a new story! It’s called Slumber Farm Janitor and it’s about the future of…
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REALISM
Years Away
A social worker specializes in helping victims recovered from kidnappings, for personal reasons that soon…
Granddad's Mystery House
A very short and sincere story on the border between the fantastic and the dismally…
Letter From a Killer
This short and nasty crime story won the Richard Eastman Founder's Prize for Prose in…
Building A Death Ray Is Hard
What it says. This is not SF or horror though, just gritty, gritty crime.
Domestic Situation
TW for domestic violence. Who is really the most powerless in this mess?
After the Cops
Technically science fiction, but there's nothing in here that we couldn't have by 2022, given…
A Series of Small, Precise Cuts
An exploration of the hard, repetitive work that goes into serial killing, and catching a…
A Series of One-Sided Conversations
A trio of dangerous scumbags mouth off about their assorted felonies, producing an emergent narrative…
Someday, Laughter
A brief thing, prompted by the detonated fiction experiment. A short, bruising story about teenage…
Regret, With Math
The award-winning story of love, death, choice, and multiple-universe theory. Also available in: ePub File, Kindle…
These People Mean Nothing to Each Other
A rancid slice-of-life illuminating four self-absorbed pieces that fit together into something much more sinister.…
Two Things She Does With Her Body
A piece of brief, character-driven literary fiction (meaning “neither pornography, mystery nor fantasy”) based very…
A Hole in the Darkness
A cop and a crook drive out in the middle of nowhere, late at night,…
Falling
Martial arts students try to avoid getting hurt when they lose control of themselves. Also…
Shrimp
A taciturn judo instructor unexpectedly tells a chilling story about his childhood. Also available in: ePub…
Whatever Happened to Lala?
Whatever Happened to Lala? has nothing unnatural or uncanny going on. Just unhappy. Also available…
Kindness
A story about a man who tries to do something decent, only to have it…
Carving the Night-Dark Soil
A man with an exciting and important life tries to trade it all in for…
The Murder Queen’s Fan Mail
A young prisoner writes to the novelist who inspired him. Special thanks to Dizzy Banjo…
Careful, She Bites
Two girls in a psych facility share personal information. Also available in: ePub File, Kindle Format
FANTASY FICTION
Gwynafra Needs a Love Potion
Needs it, I say! This is a simple historical fantasy about a girl in love.…
The Art of Earth
What if strange visitors from another world mainly wanted to visit museums and go to…
13th Age Elfish
This is a TrueType font named 13Aelfin. Feel free to download and use as you…
13th Age Abyssal
This is another TrueType font, called 13Abyssal. Use it freely. Again, it's only capitals.
13th Age Aasimar
This isn't a story, it's a TrueType font called 13Asimar. Feel free to use and…
The Forgotten Monk: Chapters 1-2
My next novel is entitled The Forgotten Monk and it's currently getting funded on Kickstarter.…
The Doom of Swords
My first podcast experiment is imperfect, but it was free, after all. It's from the…
Unripe Fruit
In a society with strictly defined castes, concretely proscribed gender roles and rigid family expectations,…
The Grey People
A Bronze Age narrative in the Lovecraft Mythos vein, featuring a grandma seeking her missing…
WEIRD STUFF
Slumber Farm Janitor
Is the future of elder care an improvement or a bleak, dystopian nightmare? Either way...…
Mick and the Love
Mick Peltier interviews a lovelorn thaumaturge and it gets weird, but not like that.
Mick and the Beef
In this Unknown Armies flavored story, Mick Peltier deals with family, incel culture, and reality…
A Pedophile Wrote Your Favorite Song
A story about telepathy, sex crimes (handled with SOME taste) along with who victimizes and…
Dialogue With Fury
Rural Gothic Americana meets the Greek goddess who avenges those who harm their kin. Warning:…
Mitchcraft
Mitch just wants to sell his unique crafts online. What's the worst that could happen?…
Cold Yesterday
Do you like ghost stories with sad, sensitive children? Here's one!
Curselands
Opening a gateway to a parallel Earth without animals opens up possibilities for carbon sequestration…
Chthon, Mold-Mother, and the Sky People
Three survivors traverse a revisionist Cthulhu Mythos postapocalypse America.
Listening to the Future
A brilliant young scientist has a plan to save the future. But the question is...…
The Art of Earth
What if strange visitors from another world mainly wanted to visit museums and go to…
Stranger Lake
This was meant to be a horror story, but it just got funnier and funnier…
Mick and the Fit
A tragic tale of fitness, excess, Mick Peltier, Unknown Armies, and trying to make the…
Like Uber, But For Monsters
You like zombies? Here, have some zombies. Have a full-on zombie apocalypse. Also some love.
Mick and the Spoonbender
A slightly Unknown Armies tale about a faded rock star meeting a retired CIA psychic.
Mick and Amanda and Reesa and Craig
A short story about murder, unreliable psychic powers, and spectral abuse. It's vaguely Unknown Armies…
The Final Process Log of Killbot 877612
If you wonder why robots would try to kill all humans, the surprising answer awaits…
I Am A Psychic Assassin For the US Army
The personal journal of an Army psychic assassin covers the dangers, history and developments of…
Forgeries and Simulacra
It's got a cop and a crook facing cosmic horror -- or maybe just the…
The Last C+ Student
Imagine a zombie apocalypse with no biting, where the smartest man alive is a C+…
AD HOC
Ever wanted to read SF about people crammed in a space ship after Cthulhu rises…
One Day There Were Spider Mouths
What would you do if one day you found out quite a lot of people…
EGREGORE
Cosmic horror about the presidency, ripped straight from today's headlines. If you want file formats…
25 Stochastic Events in the Development of FTL Travel
In collaboration with the skilled and dapper John Leavitt, I'm now posting up a four…
FAILWORLDS
It's reality TV about extinct sentient species. Possibly less of a bummer than you're thinking,…
First Contact
A short SF story about (maybe) the first human to survive first contact with an…
THE SEX FACTORY
If you're looking for something, well, sexy, this story isn't it. It's more about the…
PATIENCE
It's about... it's... well, it's weird and hard to explain. And it's only five pages…
Ghosts: The Straight Dope
Reluctant as I am to write stories about writers, this one also has possession, cruel…
A Long, Romantic Weekend
The wreckage of my first attempt to ransom fiction, which ran aground on the reefs…
Icke
Have you ever wondered what a school shooter with fish telepathy would be like? The…
Zombis Blanc
If anyone could possibly deserve to be chased, manhandled, drugged, beaten, drugged again and forced…
In the Blindness of the Glare
As part of the Ardwin ransom, I agreed to write a story incorporating ten elements…
A Wind at the Window
A story of icy calculation, burning revenge, and mysterious death set in Finland. Also available…
ENZYMES
He thinks he used to be human, but the question is, what does that mean…
Emily Speaks
A bit of near-future fiction concerning the monetization of a woman’s voice. Also available in:…
7 and 7
The novella sequel to SWITCHFLIPPED has Kung Fu, despair, and pillow talk on index cards.…
TRANSMIT
A far more plausible narrative about contacting aliens, the risks, the rewards, and the difficulty…
The Turning of the Time
A SWITCHFLIPPED-like narrative about time control, choices not made, and the dangerous combination of senility…
How to Make a Book Safe
Is it better to believe or deny? Does it matter if the deity you consider…
NECROCHROME
If you had a cell phone that could text with the dead, what secrets would…
Specimens
An ambitious biologist gets a big promotion! And drugs! Also available in: ePub File, Kindle Format,…
Special Purpose
A young girl in an impoverished future finally finds out what her family has planned…
BUY ANTHOLOGIES
UPSIDE DOWN
A collection of tinkered-with literary tools and scholarly examinations of the same, including my collaboration…
CTHULHU LIES DREAMING
A squamous mass of Mythos horrors, ranging from the gore-shook and jagged through opioid arabesques…
GODS, MEMES AND MONSTERS
A 21st Century bestiary featuring the Catoblepas, the Trashsquatch, and my own entry on the…
WHISPERS FROM THE ABYSS 2
Like the original Whispers From The Abyss, but two-ier!
By No Means Vulgar
BY NO MEANS VULGAR is a collection of short stories inspired by The Play’s The…
In the Court of the Yellow King
Come and enjoy new visions of the King, expanding and deepening the fragments glimpsed in…
Cthulhu Lives!
This volume brings together seventeen masterful tales of cosmic horror inspired by Lovecraft's work.
DELTA GREEN: Alien Intelligence
You are NOT CLEARED for this book. These eight tales of cosmic horror and personal…
DELTA GREEN: Dark Theatres
Take your seat. Delta Green: Dark Theatres presents eight new stories of intrigue and horror,…
Don’t Read This Book
Down a lonely alleyway, under a starless sky, lies a city that never was, yet…
Have Blaster, Will Travel
Sentient robots on a murderous rampage. Deadly pirate attacks in deep space. An adult entertainment…
The Lion and the Aardvark
These confusing times of Internet trolls, one-percenters, toxic fame, and impending singularity cry out for…
Lucifer’s Shadow
This anthology features ten different tales of horror and apocalypse.
The New Hero, Volume 2
With 13 thrilling stories of threatened identity and vanquished disorder, this second volume of the…
The Sleep of Reason
The Sleep of Reason is a unique and unsettling anthology book. There are no zombies here.…
The Strix Chronicle Anthology
We are like you. We live in your cities, we laugh at your jokes, we…
Whispers From the Abyss
The WHISPERS FROM THE ABYSS ANTHOLOGY is the first ever H.P. Lovecraft inspired collection created…
Worlds of Their Own
Adventure without limits!
VII
It’s a neat notion, since you keep killing this guy without getting rid of him,…
Ordo Dracul
I wrote a bigger chunk of this, including the Paths of Fate section that allows…
Lancea Sanctum
I only wrote the intro fiction for this, but I’m pretty darn pleased with it.
Rites of the Dragon
Wow, was this ever fun to write! I keep thinking about what Jack Nicholson said…
Nomads
I did the clans section of this, and the fiction, and some other bits.
The Myth of Self
This was the very first thing I wrote for Over the Edge.
Friend or Foe?
Like Back for Seconds (which it preceded) this was a grab-bag of characters and plots.
Wildest Dreams
Me, John Tynes and Robin Laws collaborating on a supplement about supernatural drug pushers with…
Player’s Survival Guide
Good luck finding this ancient supplement. I doubt even eBay has many available.
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