There it was again, the tightening in her chest, the fear of what the night might bring, closing in around her, tunneling her vision, squeezing her throat. Elle had taken the train to Brooklyn. She'd followed the instructions from the little encrypted messaging app....
Here you will find a few samples of short stories and works in progress. I’m trying to get more comfortable sharing my work publicly again. I’ve published stories in the past, but I’m working on completely new works and would love feedback.
The Dandy Detective (Three Chapters of a Novel)
Chapter 1 - A Walk in the Park A storm had raged all that week. A nor'easter, coming from the cold black Atlantic, up the coast, riding hard through the wilds of Long Island to beat at the windows of Manhattan. In its wake, it left an almost uncomfortably clear sky...
The Crush
That morning, Leah told me that she had a crush on a boy. I was still half asleep as she sat on the edge of the bed and slowly slipped on her bra. I watched as she fumbled a bit with the tiny bent clasps. There was a clumsy girlish charm to her, lazy and pouty and...
Plague Town
In my dream, we are walking through a village where everyone has died of the plague. It's a small hamlet, only a dozen buildings—all cobblestone and wood, with a simple church at one end and a well at the other. Every single person is dead. Every child, every love,...
The Sea and Dreams
This is the story of Sydney Moore. A man who was many things, few of which were particularly interesting, and who was, above all other things, afraid of the ocean. He was a small squat man, flattened by life. His hair had begun to recede around the same time it...
The Bed Curse
Katherine had been looking for a cure since Chicago. She had been chasing the man in the gray suit since Hungary. She’d been sent to meet with a violet-eyed, white-haired witch in Budapest who told her of an impeccably dressed man, usually wearing gray, who held some...