This page gives links to my mystery, fantasy, and science fiction stories–the latest stories published in magazines since 2018.
Most Recent Stories Published: 2022
UPCOMING–“Night Circus” in The Future’s So Bright Anthology, Water Dragon Press–September 2022
“Rose-Colored Glass” in Etherea–August 2022
Out of Time in Sci-Fi Shorts–July 2022
Take Heed, Earthling in Sci-Fi Shorts–June 2022
Not Like Us Sci-Fi Shorts--March 2022
Stories Published: 2020-2021
Distraction in Titanic Terastructures Anthology in November 2021
So Be the Fae in Fantasy Shorts October 2021
The Universe of Magical Things in Fifth Di September 2021
Story Time in Murderous Ink Press August 2021
The Trade in Glittery Literary Anthology–Summer 2021
Hitchhiker read on Manawaker Studio Podcast–-February 2021
“It’s a Wrap” Murderous Ink Press
A Medieval Tale in Twist in Time
Witch Way in From the Farther Trees
Crossing the Border in GNU Journal
Stories Published 2018-2019
I received notice from the premiere forum Writer’s Digest (90 years in business and counting for publishing and conferences on writing).
“Your story, A Magician’s Wish, was named an Honorable Mention in the Genre Short Story (Mystery, Romance, etc.) category for the 87th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition…Your name will be listed in the 87th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition Collection [to be published on Amazon in November 2018].”
In late April 2018, my dark mystery/horror story “STOPOVER” was read on The Strange Recital podcast out of Woodstock, NY. This story is from my mystery collection STOPOVER and Other Stories for a Rainy Night.
In early May 2018 a new story appeared in Aurora Wolf, A Literary Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy. The title is “The Universe of Magical Things.”
My dark mystery “On and Off” was featured as the cover story in Flash Bang Mysteries Magazine. You can read the whole story HERE.
Alien Dimensions printed two of my science fiction stories in the April 2018 issue: “From All the Winters Past” and “Dreams Arising from Accelerated frequencies.” You can see the stories here.
“WIDDERSHINS” —A science fiction story that exists out of mind …
Available now in Alien Dimensions, Issue 14. You can read the story HERE .
Excerpt: Now here he was only three weeks later, subject to the very event his father had warned against. There was no going back. The pieces had been shaped over his lifetime, drawn from an infinite series of events that he had felt, seen, imagined, and all the inevitable probabilities of each. There was no way to track it all, nothing he could depend on to show him how it was he had arrived where he was. What he did know was that the thoughts had gathered in an epiphany, transporting him from the ship into another world. They were the trigger for the unexpected configuration. That was what the Council, in their wisdom, had guaranteed. It was a test, after all, they reminded him. Find your own way back, or not. “It’s your mind to lose,” the senior programmer had said, laughing too much at his own humor. “And maybe our world.” No one laughed at that.
“ROSE-COLORED GLASS“–This story (2016) is up on Aurora Wolf, A Literary Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy–with great artwork. The setting is a planet that serves as a military prison outpost. You can read the story HERE…
[NOTE: Several stories have been published in Medium publications: Truth Be Told, Jack-in-the-Box, and Birthright.]