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

Kindle Edition - FH website or Amazon
Print Edition - FH website or Amazon

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
Available in PRINT at AMAZON (click here)
Available for NOOK at BARNES AND NOBLE  (click here)

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.
Here's the Amazon Link.

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

Also at Amazon

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.
AVAILABLE FOR SALE AT: Static Movement Store

Rannoch Abbey and the Night Visitor (WT 41)

On the Vigil of Easter in Rannoch, Scotland in 1155 AD, a flying saucer crashed into the bog near a church and and monks must fight the alien invasion.

Published in MONK PUNK, an anthology edited by AJ French and available at the Static Movement Book Store.
http://www.staticmovement.com/
For slightly more at AMAZON
Also on the KINDLE and the NOOK

A review at HELLNOTES

A review at Ginger Nuts of Horror.
Another Review at The Future Fire

Who Let The Dogs Out (WT 63)

Charlie Crampon, a college student returning from his father's memorial service, meets up with two strange dogs that turn out to be anthromorphs and when they return to human form, they involved Charlie in a strange and life altering affair. Or so we think because nothing is as it appears to be.

published in ROAD TRIP, edited by Chris Bartholomew at Static Movement Book Store

Avenging Angel (WT 93)

A single woman is found by her stalker and tonight, there will be murder... in an urban, dark and demonic way.
A short story collaboration with Dorothy Davies.

Published in "COMES THE NIGHT" an anthology of dark stories edited by Dorothy Davies.
Available at the Static Movement Store.

Bodies at the Buoy (WT 64)

Policemen Aidan Cainne and Silvio Ranaldo find a dead body in an old-style diving suit under an abandoned diving platform and before they can summon help, a pirate adds them to his scorecard of bad deeds. As the Bible says, the wages of sin is death; not Miltonian death in some fiery Hades or a Dante-like Inferno, but the Angel of Death incarnate come to deliver judgment. When the entire world holds it breath and Death looks deep into the murderer's heart, what does a man see reflected in Death's eyes?

Published in Tales of Salt and Sorrow an anthology edited by Dorothy Davies.
Available at the Static Movement Shop

Witch Queen of the Dragons (WT 91)

Susie, Witch Queen of the Dragons and keeper of the Tablets of Destiny, needs a champion swordsman and Domenic Gedigold the Wizard, to help her gargoyle friends close a portal to hell. Once married to Susie, Domenic and the swordsman must destroy an evil warlock threatening to overwhelm the world with nightmarish dreams and enslaving humanity.

Published in Weird City 2
Companion to Weird City (scroll down)
both anthologies edited by George Wilhite.
My story "Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum" appeared in Weird City and is the first story that Domenic appears

Like a Deer in the Headlights (WT 83)

Ever wonder what the deer thinks about? Well Brant Black and Skeeter Crust find out when their hunting trip is hijacked to another planet. They become the hunted. Do they end up as trophies on the wall or do they survive?

Published in "Like Frozen Statues of Flesh, a Bizarro Anthology" edited by Joe Jablonski
Available a the Static Movement Shop

Roll Another Joint For Me, Baby (WT 71)

Four good friends watching a fifth participate in a parade and witness his murder. Yes, the unbelievable has happened, Lady Sylvia's cheese cavalier is killed before everyone eyes by an invisible killer. Who can solve such a crime? The obsequious detective? The perceptive Patrolman? The banned Blog Editor with the unsavory past?
No one is what they seem to be in this dystopic world.

published in an upcoming anthology: "Like Frozen Statues of Flesh," edited by Joe Jablonski.
Available at the Static Movement Shop.

The Hot Tub Murder (WT 92)

On a world populated by Human-Animal hybrids, a vacationing human is found dead in a hot tub. It is up to seasoned detective, Elias Carson incarnated as a satyr, a green rookie incarnated as a wolf and a prosecutor incarnated as an anteater to solve the world's first murder. What they find is not a Royal conspiracy to cheat death, taxes and society but a cold-blooded, heartless murderer, willing to do anything to keep up appearances.

Accepted in "WILL IT GO FASTER IF I PUSH THIS" an anthology edited by C.D. Turner and published by Static Movement.

Or Amazon for slightly more: WIGFIIP

The Toads Croaked at Midnight (WT 66)

A movie stuntman who is a touch too greedy and too clueless for his own good and makes a deal with a pair of demons for a big movie contract that has implications for the rest of his life.

Published 26 June 2011 here on The WiFiles.
Or after 3 July 2011 at this link: The WiFiles.

(WT 97) Waste Not, Want Not

A zombie story with an airborne plague virus

(WT 96) Never Again Fear the Dark

Apocalyptic tale of alien satellites isolating the earth.

Poems: "Morning Glen" and "Festive Rapping"

Two poems: "Morning Glen" and "Festive Rapping"

Published in Poems from the Dark Side, George Wilhite editor.

At Static Movement Shop: Poems From the Dark Side
At Amazon: Poems From the Dark Side

Astronomers on the Beach (WT 57)

The Anthology COSMIC CATASTROPHES, edited by Chris Bartholomew

Purchase it at the Static Movement Shop
Or Amazon for slightly more: Cosmic Catastrophes

My story, Astronomers on the Beach, appears in it:

What do you do with the crew of a spaceship when you colonize a world? Twelve Cities abandons them on the planet with the rest of the colonists. What kind of jobs do abandoned astronomers try to find? Would you believe internet videos of a stone man in large caverns? That works out well for two of the crew.
However, something is up there, in the sky.
A meteor is falling toward the planet like the Sword of Damocles and when it strikes, it will thwart the best laid plans of astronomers and colonists alike.

Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum (WT 90)

An ex-marine turned Detective who finds the man he is looking for in a gym, punching a speed bag. But remember, the gateway to hell will not open tonight, not on this detective's watch. An Urban Fantasy.

This story appears in George Wilhite's Anthology "Weird City."
It is available at the Static Movement Store.
And at Amazon for a slightly higher price: Weird City 1

Sasquatch and Cyborg, LLC (WT 79)

One hundred seventy years in the future, a serial killer comes to the Yukon Territory and an alien bounty hunter (a Sasquatch with telepathic fleas) and a human detective (no fleas, no telepathy, just a college degree) must join forces to find the killer before he kills again.

Published in BOUNTY HUNTER, an anthology edited by Chris Bartholomew. Available at Static Movement's Store
http://www.staticmovement.com/
Or full price on AMAZON: BOUNTY HUNTER

New title: Sasquatch and Cyborg, LLC,
Second Title: We're Having a Little Trouble With Sasquatch,
Original title: Anthropomorphic Indulgences

And the Life of the World to Come (WT 34)

"Et vitam venturi saeculi," a Latin phrase at the end of the profession of faith. But do we believe in "a life in the world to come"? Do we have faith? They believed. They devised a resurrection and then they died in the apocalypse. This is the story of their life and the world to come.

Published in "Adventures in Other Worlds" an anthology edited by Chris Bartholomew.
Available at Static Movement's Bookstore
And for slightly more at Amazon: Adventures in Other Worlds

The original title: Detective Stuff and the story started out life as a writing exercise for Evil Editors Blog in 2007. It was a biography of EE and it was biting, wicked satire. I wrote a flash fiction from it called it "Inspector Weannous of the Detective Squad" and had the basic plot of an old detective trains a rookie.
In December 2010, I used Willie Weannous as a character in an erotic story. But I didn't use any other part of this story. I changed the character's name for this story.
In March of 2011, I wrote "Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum (WT 90)" and that theme had more story to it. So this is the story I wrote from that phrase.