Happy December, everybody! My immediate gift to you is Penitentiary Pool Boy, If you liked After the Cops but wondered what was happening to the prisons, their employees and the inmates during an anti-carceral culture shift (and resulting revanchist backlash), this is the one for you! A fresh-faced narrator gets hired as a guard midway…
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 elder care. Is it better than what we’ve got today? Worse? Only way to find out is to read it. (Starting with After the Cops, I’ve been writing what I…
Patreon-ed last year, Years Away is now available here, you can click that link and read it, go on! It’s the story of a social worker who specializes in recovered kidnap victims, for reasons that become more and more apparent as the story progresses. It’s not horror or fantasy, and it’s about crime, but I…
In the next four days, Pragta of the Happy House concludes on Kickstarter. The good news is, it’s hit goal, it’s printed and laid out, it’s definitely happening and it’s ready to go. The bad news is, I’ve made sixty print zines of it, each with a unique cover, and only thirty of them have…
First, best and nicest—the Patreon process has yielded another monthly story, Mick and the Beef, in which our titular podcaster and ex-rock-star psychic gets involved with incel culture, family, and a reality show called American Beefcake. Secondly, and almost as good, I’m gearing up for the next Borzhu novella Kickstarter, so start scraping together your…
I’m posting this on my 30th wedding anniversary, so I hope you can excuse me for being a little sincere. I’m updating the Patreon with the first romance story I’ve written with the intention of ‘this story’s going to be a romance!’ It’s called Gorgeous Synergies and it’s pretty funny. Also kinda long. The inspiration…
My fiction’s all over the place here. So, first up: A Pedophile Wrote Your Favorite Song. Can you guess what the trigger warning for this one is? Yeah, it deals with sexual violence, though it does not contain explicit descriptions. It’s also about telepathy and a meditation on who victimizes and who doesn’t. Also, if…
It is my great honor and delight to have a place with the Aurora Writer’s Workshop this summer, teaching a class on creative writing. The full details are here, but the long and short of it is, you can join me in a small group in which we explore the best individual way you can…
First off, as you might gather from the image, there’s a new story up in the fiction library, and it’s called Letter From a Killer. Guess what it’s about? Yeah, grotty scary crime. Do you suppose a handsome cop shows up to make everything OK? Probably not, but I guess you have to read to…
This month’s free story is up, and it’s called Dialogue With Fury. Word of warning on this one: While I produce a lot of dark stuff here, this one touches on some particularly evil behaviors, right at the final sentence reveal. It’s a mix of rural Gothic Americana and the ancient Greek avengers of those…