Village of the Fifth Lion (WT 86)

Two men, searching for The Fountain of Youth in the mid 1930's, find Ponce De Leon and discover that "youth" is not entirely what it seems.


Published on my website
June 2014

The Blacksmith's Gift (WT 74)

Christmas Fear - Spooky Stories for the Holidays
Sometimes a gift is more than it seems to be at first glance. In this case, all that glitters is not gold but steel.


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By the Devil That's Bad Luck (137)

A quartet of men decide to become immortal demons to rule the world but a pair of hungover demons have other plans for their "blood sacrifice." 
Hungover? Seriously Dude, 
can two hungover demons damn four men to hell? 
And WHAT is "good luck" in Hell? 

Published in Blood and Guts, an anthology edited by Brianna Stoddard
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Murder in a Sleazy Nightclub (131)

And how dreadful would it be if anthropomorphic wolves entered the world and nothing changed? Is that all there is?
(A tip o'the hat to Peggy Lee, Lieber and Stoller along with Arlen and Stoller, )

Published in WOLFCRAFT, an anthology of short stories edited by Ron Kopppelberger

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Kathmandu Raga (WT 106)

He slept fitfully. The way soldiers always sleep on rock mattresses cradled against the surviving wall of a burnt out building. Spotlights of the enemy couldn't reach this flop-spot. There was a name for this war, Rattenkrieg. An old name from a century before when soldiers were flesh and blood, when guns shot lead bullets and not energy bursts. There was a name for real men who shot real enemies not these faceless searchers that fell from the skies, Sniper. He became one with the stone and the dirt, hidden, unseen.

Published in A-Z CITIES OF DEATH, an anthology edited by Dean M. Drinkel
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A Rememberance of Spring With Flowers in Bloom (WT 109)

Nothing is so memorable as a day in spring with cool breezes, the smell of cherry blossoms and flowers, puffy white clouds in the sky and an alien abduction.

Published in SPRING FEVER, an anthology of horror stories

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Meditations On a Dead World (112)

A legend claims that the planet Earth has a twin in opposite orbit around the sun. What if R'lyeh rested at the bottom of the ocean on that world? What will happen when man explores the stars and discovers that dead world? Will mankind survive or will the Ancient Ones rule the universe with mankind as its slaves?

TECHNO GOTH CTHULHU
an anthology edited by Mark Crittendon at  Red Skies Press 

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My Private Island (124)

In the year 2045, a rich college brat destroys a University and its Chancellor by posting a video so vile that it gets him declared an enemy of the state. His punishment is exile from the planet.

Published in A JOURNEY YOU SAY
Available at CREATE SPACE
also
Available at AMAZON

The Night Dickie Ward's Tongue Stuck To The Flagpole (WT 81)

Three teenage brothers confront an alien threat at their family Ice Hockey Rink that wants to turn them into mechanical monsters with living parts.

Published in DIESELPUNK an anthology edited by Sean Monaghan (Venus Vulture) and published on CREATE SPACE in print AMAZON in print.

All the Days of Our Lives (133)

An abandoned child rises through the crime syndicates to run the brothels and speakeasies in Capital City. when a robbery goes bad, he is sent to prison for murder. There are punishments that crush the spirit, destroy the body, and inspire revolution. A prison story in Steampunk with diesels, war machines, locomotives, cyborgs, and finally fireworks.


Published in STEAMPUNK, an anthology of metal and machines edited by Sean Monaghan (Venus Vulture) and available from CREATE SPACE in print and AMAZON in print.

A Meteorite Struck Lance Last Week (WT 77)

A tiny chunk of meteor hits the star player of a world-championship Rugby team. It starts to turn his body into living metal and that causes all sorts of grief at airport security. But does our star player simply roll over and play dead, tragically whimpering in self-doubt or does our star player take the bull by the horns and create a new life? That is the question.

Published  in A BUTTERFLY IN CHINA an anthology edited by Sean Monaghan (Venus Vulture News) available on AMAZON in print, and CREATE SPACE in print.

Cyborg Harrow Genesis (WT 54)

What would happen if micromachines, nannites, could turn human soldiers into metal and silicone weapons of war. Would humanity survive the war or would the nannites simply take over everything and declare peace with the other nannites?  Only one man can save the world of flesh and blood humanity from destruction. What is the price he must pay?

Published in NOIR, an anthology in memory of Chuck Turner edited by Chris Bartholomew of Static Movement. Available from AMAZON in print and CREATE SPACE in print.

The Campeche Aquarium (128)

If a butterfly flaps its wings in China... too abstract a thought.

If a doctoral student deflowers the University President's Daughter in a viral video, what sort of job can he expect to get after graduation? Would even a drug lord hire him?
Maybe... There are fish in Campeche Bay -- Man-made fish paying for their sins and the sins of the father. What strange quirk of fate brought them to this point?

Published in A BUTTERFLY IN CHINA, an anthology by Sean Monaghan available on print from AMAZON, or CREATE SPACE

Space Cadets of the Apocalypse (141)

The world didn't end on Mayan year zero but it tried real hard. The Genetic Plagues nearly ended mankind. Women nearly disappeared. Civilization descended into savagery. I snagged a preferred spot, running one of the military's freeholds, a series of caves, teaching the survivors, abandoned orphaned teens, all boys. It was either teach or be sent into outer space as a robot.

Published online by Perihelion Science Fiction in their March 2013 issue. 

The Adventures of Sheriff Billy Shane (WT 94)

The Sheriff and Deputy of Chadron Nebraska discover a Magus trying to become a living god and it is up to the two men to stop the Magus. But they aren't alone. The sheriff is related to not one but two Greek gods and in the end, it's party time.

Published for KINDLE in FANTASTIC HORROR's TEMPTATIONS

Published on CREATE SPACE in print.

Published on AMAZON in print

The Blood of Patriots and Tyrants (144)

An insurgent memory-wipes the enemy soldier’s mind controlling a cyborg warrior and replaces it with his own. What happens when this new mind becomes the weapon that can take over all defenses and conquer the world? 

Accepted in Blood, an anthology by Fantastic Horror (http://fantastichorror.com or http://fantastichorror.com/forum/) which is restoring and revising its website. 

Tachyon Level Rising (140)

It's a con game -- replace Michelangelo's David with a marble copy that can walk and talk. Astonish the world and historians everywhere. Think of the fame and fortune involved. Would you be tempted to look that good? Scott was and he isn't standing in the Louvre but in Hell.

Published by KALKION online

Skydiving into Oblivion (136)

Bad Boys, bad boys, whatcha going to do when you land on an island that's a sovereign country? 

Accepted in POWERS, an anthology about those with superpowers.
Open for Submission. Call for Stories at this link.

Durango Agonistes Died Yesterday (123)

A banned and interdicted neighbor predicts events leading to the return of the Old Gods -- the One who Sleeps in the Sunken City, the Shambler, and the Gargoyle of the Sea. Who is this neighborly Delphic Oracle, this unkempt Cassandra who troubles your orderly life? Do you dismiss a series of murders when a comet appears and meteors fall to earth? Do you run to him when the moon turns blood red? Do you seek him out when the streets run red with blood and Death walks the earth? The fate of the world is in your hands.

Published in THE MYTHOS REVISITED

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THE BREAK UP (WT 68)

A knock on the door provides new insights into the relationship of a "not so nice" friendship between two men and the girl they think they love.

Published in WRITINGS ON THE WALL, an anthology from Seven Archons

Available at AMAZON
And at CREATESPACE 

The Demon Invasion from Hell (WT 121)

By a strange quirk of fate when the city of Pittsburgh opened the a subway tunnel from "dahntahn" to the North Shore, they also opened a portal to hell. Now it falls to the military, specifically Lieutenant Colonel McFaddis to find a way to stop the demons from feasting on the humans at their own tailgate parties. Yuns better like this story, the demon says!

Published in Fantastic Horror #4. Available as a Kindle book
at  GOOD VERSUS EVIL
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City of Blood (WT 111)

There is always something interesting happening in Central City on weekends -- Jazz bands, funky flash mobs, symphony concerts, the midnight screening of Rocky Horror in drag, fancy dinners, dancing at the Waldorf Ballroom for the rich and sophisticated, and even ... the end of the world.
Professional trainer and magician Domenic Gedigold and his buddy from the distant past must deal with a madman who wishes to establish an empire of werewolves. If he fails then Central City will become a City of Blood.

Publilshed WEIRD CITY 3, an anthology edited by George Whilhite
Available at AMAZON 

The Man in the Moon Became My Grandfather (WT 99)

When a child is born, every parent dreams of a future for that child so glorious it is written in golden letters across a sky so vast, it is meaningless to describe. But no child ever lives up to those dreams and thus, every parent's dream dies a little each day. No child born of man could live up to the dreams of that birth. But what happens when a parent gets a second chance? Something truly Mysterious and Wonderful happened in Warehouse Three of Moonbase Alpha. One day our children will step between the stars and write history in bold actions and wondrous deeds.

Published in THE COLONIES, an anthology edited by Shane Collins
Available at AMAZON

Sinopia (127)

Three men on a first contact mission to an Earth-like world crash on a barren limestone landscape. They find refuge in a cave that seems to be a monastery. It is filled with sinopia-colored statues made from limestone and illuminated by a perpetual fire.

Accepted in COLORS, an anthology of flash fiction and poetry edited by Jake Johnson
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Snowbound, With Wolves (WT 114)

A camping Expedition on an alien world goes wrong when wolves attack. However, all is not lost, our campers do not become lumps of digested food in the snow, not on this alien world.

Published in in Synaptic Void, an anthology edited by Joe Jablonski
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The Haunted House (WT 73)

Alms for the poor, alms for the poor. Blood for the Inquisition.
This Halloween, there is a haunted house on a haunted hill with a dungeon haunted by a real demon -- Tomas de Torquemada. I wouldn't suggest you visit that Haunted House unless you like pain. Remember, you only have one life to give, over and over and over.

Available for AMAZON Kindle: FH #3 - Welcome to Hell
Available in PRINT - FH #3 - Welcome to Hell

The First Vampire's Curse (WT 119)

During a drug raid on a steamship, a young policeman discovers vampires and embraces the First Vampire's Curse by becoming one of the undead to take control of organized crime in a steampunk-like city.

Published in FANTASTIC HORROR #2 -- THE DEAD AND THE UNDEAD.

Available in MOBI, EPUB and PDF formats through FANTASTIC HORROR via PAY PAL.
ALSO available in electronic form at AMAZON 

Now Available in PRINT from AMAZON 

The New Frankenstein (WT 98)

_ _ Jonah Carnahan, a detective inspector with the Atlantipolis City Police Force and a bicycling enthusiast, is involved in a car accident that leads to revelations of murder, ghosts, abominations of nature and cyborgs at All Souls Charity Hospital. There is no hope for the living to survive a fate worse than dying in this hospital.
_ _ In the words of Mary Shelley: "I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion."
_ _ And this cyborg does not fear Death.

Published in "HOSPITAL" an anthology edited by Sean Monaghan
Available at AMAZON

The Caterwauling Kitties of Castle O'Rourke (WT 49)

There's the tooth fairy. There's your fairy godmother. And there's Rory, the Cat Fairy who haunts Castle O'Rourke. He made the mistake of disturbing the peace and hating cats. Hey you cat lovers, here's one for you.

Published in Short Sips, Coffee House Flash Fiction Collection Volume 2, edited by Jessica A. Weiss.
Available from AMAZON


Short Sips is a collection of short stories for you to read over a cup of coffee.

And With a Sigh Winter Says Goodbye (WT 110)

The cold night of winter overstayed. It was thus in Jules Anson's heart, if not Central city as a whole until a theft could be discovered, wrongs brought to justice and curses lifted. Anson knew that once magic was invoked in the name of Fire, Earth, Air or Water, that magic must run its course.

Published in COBWEBS AND ANTIQUITIES, an anthology of cursed and/or magic objects

Available on AMAZON 

The Shrovetide Affair (WT 52)

After Mardi Gras, a man returns to his friends as a zombie, dead as a doornail, heart ripped from his chest  and asks them to help him get his heart back by finding the voodoo master who took it. This is a deal made with the devil and no good can come of it.

Published in Deals With The Devil, an anthology edited by Stephanie Morrell
Available at AMAZON

In the Dark, by an Icy Ocean (WT 89)

Two astronauts on a terraforming mission in the Oort Cloud find artifacts that are more than merely a rock or a piece of metal. There are memories of lives from a billion years before that insist on being remembered.

Published in "Shadows Within Shadows 2" and available at AMAZON

The Neighbors Are Almost Dead (WT 112)

Jared Gade, rookie detective and highborn, uber-rich socialite has a problem. His rich "uncles" are vampires. When three murdered crooks turn up at their townhouse, Jared must come clean to his detective boss, a banned magician and the ghosts who witnessed the murder. Worse yet, his "uncles" and the Magician are two thousand years old and hate each other. Can Jared resist the lure of being eternally undead or will he be a good patrician and open a vein for his "uncles" to suck?

Published in URBAN NIGHTMARES, an anthology edited by Dorothy Davies
available at AMAZON 

Circus Extravagansis (WT 87)

Mankind dashes out into the galaxy after aliens give them long distance spaceflight but all is not fortune, glory and adventure. The alien races resent Earthlings for their chaotic and anarchic practices. When four young men from broken homes start sneaking into Circus Extravagansis and stealing the publicity, the leaders of the Circus involve them in a conspiracy of three ring proportions. But Earthlings are not loved and cherished. When the curtain falls on our little drama, four young men find new roles in the Circus; roles that they never expected.

Published in LEGENDS UNSPOKEN, an anthology from Fantastic Horror in electronic formats.
Also, an Amazon kindle edition
And on print at AMAZON

Perdition Found in a Railcar (WT 95)

A thief and scoundrel who once rode with Quantrill's raiders in the Civil War wants the secret of eternal life. He confronts a seeming rich man traveling in a private railcar and finds more than he bargained for.
Published in MIDNIGHT TRAIN, an anthology edited by Dorothy Davies.

This is the third story about Cain (of the biblical Cain and Abel) and Death as a character. It is set in a RR car in 1876.
The first story was "Dogs at Midnight" set circa 2010.
The second story was "Bodies at the Buoy" set in 2020.

Dragons and Sprites and Other Delights (WT 116)

Aye Mateys. There be pirate treasure out there on a tiny island west of the Florida Keys. More doubloons than a dozen men can carry and all but one of them guard the secret of that treasure with their bones. Beware, the twelfth man is name Robin and he definitely isn't a good fellow. He wants revenge.

Accepted in BENEATH THE WAVES an Anthology
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On Passing Through a Graveyard on a Warm Summer Night (WT 88)

A graveyard, a murder and a ghost -- In the dark of night, the dead speak a dead language of their own and keep company with the dead. The dead do not keep company with the living, unless...

Published in SUMMER THRILLS an anthology edited by Dorothy Davies.

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Bo's Simian Winter (WT 75)

How far would you go for a friend? Would you change your species? If you had complete a government contract, how far would you go?
Bo just can't say NO to Rory.

Published in WINTER CHILLS, and anthology edited by Dorothy Davies.
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Skirmish at the Devereux Hot Springs (WT101)

In a Victorian world of city-states where steam carriages drive through cities lit by gas lamps and enchanted mechanicals guard the estates of the rich, how do diplomats and politicians settle disputes? They devise Rules of Engagement, hire small armies and stage skirmishes between brigades of clockworks, steam power war machines, helium airships. They invoke ghosts, raise the dead and listen to consultants.
A Steampunk story of the dead rising and making war with clockwork gargoyles.

Published in "What New is Old Again - a Steampunk Anthology dedicated to C.D. Turner

And Death Will Never Take Me (WT 108)

A simple drunk and disorderly police call reveals the secret sins of the Angel of Death.

Published in: DARK SECRETS Anthology edited by Dorothy Davies

Kakashi (WT 000)

Not all heroes have powers and muscles and capes. Some heroes live lonely, solitary lives and care for the ordinary things, lest the ordinary things become unique.  Some watch the fields and forests and keep them safe.

A reprint from years ago, republished in print in LOCAL HEROES an anthology edited by Brandon Rucker.

Two Boys At Play (WT 29)

Two boys playing in their back yard meet their counterparts from the past through a rift in time.


Published in Daily Flash Fiction 2012: 366 Days of Flash from Pill Hill Press

Death Visits Oktoberfest (WT 80)

An actor playing the character of Death in a morality at an Oktoberfest Renaissance Faire decides to party-hearty in costume and pays for his actions.

Published in: Fall Shudders an anthology of spooky tales edited by Dorothy Davies

The Birthday Boy's Last Christmas (WT 103)

Christmas is always bright and cheery, with silver tinsel and red and gold balls and lots of twinkling fairy lights with Cthulhu and a vampire. A time of joy, a time of giving till it hurts, blood that is and human sacrifice.

Published in: CHRISTMAS FEAR 2: UNHOLY NIGHT - an anthology of short horror stories edited by Chris Bartholomew.

The Outer Limits of the Pizza Twilight Zone (WT107)

Ever get the wrong number late at night and they the temerity to order pizza from you?

Published in Daily Flash 2012: 366 Days of Flash Fiction by Pill Hill Press

Young Sherlock Holmes' Big Crime Spree (WT 105)

Is it possible that the great detective was once a common wrongdoer? Is it possible that there is someone more brilliant than Sherlock?

Published in DAILY FLASH 2012 LEAP YEAR

Who Wants To Date An Alien (WT 65)

Can a dating show be a weapon of mass destruction? In a bizarre twist of events, an anthropoid lizard and a Tentacle with a big mouth rudely interrupt a man's morning shower. Are they Impresarios from another planet or terrorists unleashing the most dread weapon in the galaxy? Before you can say "Inquiring Minds Want to Know" a mountain is teleported above a capital city and starts to fall...

"FIRST CONTACT IMMINENT" an anthology edited by Joe Jablonksi
published by RED SKIES PRESS

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Oh Drat! It's From the In-Laws (WT 104)

A satire on the most famous Christmas Poem - The Night Before Christmas.

Published in  CHRISTMAS FEAR 2, UNHOLY NIGHT  an anthology from Static Movement

Thunderstorms and Thaumaturgy (WT 85)

A car wrecks and the driver is dead but the accident is not an accident, it's worse than murder. A portal has been opened and an ancient evil is invading the earth. Is this the end of civilization? Only one man can prevent it. Is it the bright young patrolman? The Luddite detective? Or the strange blog editor with the funny name and the hidden past?

This is Volume 2 of a three volume set.
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