Stories

Ellis's mother did him spite, she harried thieves in the dead of night.
Put her son and his child to flight, they slew the babe, they slew his knight.
Through ill fate, he'd survived, but with this, his loves had died,
And now alone he must endure the days without child and paramour.

Imaginary stories of a half-fantastic Me.

Flash Fiction

I am told this is a "Haibun" or "Quick Writing," as it is translated. It is a partial narrative, and partial poetic treatment of a very difficult journey I am even now completing.

On leaving University Amanda finds a position with a firm of Accountants that necessitates her moving to a new town. The move proves to have unexpected consequences.

My attempts at writing poems.

When two dragons transporting a war criminal drop in for dinner, three wizard college drop-outs find themselves caught in the crossfire of a supernatural power struggle.

This introduces Jake, the narrator of Moorpark Palms, a funny book of stories about a small Los Angeles apartment building in the 1990s. Jake & Conor is a light little romance, once intertwined with the longer book. I broke it out because it distracted from the apartment stories.

Miguel comes to visit his friend Tristan, but notices something is amiss when the man opens his door to him.

Intuition has never failed him before, but it never prepared him for what he'd see.

As a pair of coworkers are thrown together by chance, one man’s secret is revealed. When does someone else’s business become your business?