creative writing

Settling In

Date: Jan 29, 2013 – Full Story Here 

Fantasy/Adventure – A weary warrior and a ranger take shelter at an inn to weather a snow storm in a small town.  Three years of a history and twenty-five years on foot is quite a long time for a woman without purpose.


Meteorite

Date: Dec 5, 2012 – Full Story Here

Science Fiction – In a future where people look out instead of up, one woman strives to find meaning in a meteor shower while a man adjusts to a meaningless life.


The Horror on the Queen Ann

Date: Oct 21, 2012 – Full Story Here

Mystery/Thriller/Science Fiction – Five days on the luxury train, the Queen Ann, are quick to turn sour when a passenger ends up dead.  An intellectual Anthropologist vows to answer the unanswerable when his interest is caught by suspicious behavior.  (Set in the 1920s.  Inspired by Lovecraftian Mythos.)


Hemlock

Date: February 23, 2012 – Sample Here

Novel (in progress)/Mystery/Thriller – A small town murder goes south with the scent of conspiracy in the air.  When an FBI agent and his partner are brought in, their involvement may run deeper than they first believed.


The Cartographer

Date: June 19, 2010 – Sample Here

Science Fiction/Mystery/Adventure – Florence Escher lived a normal life fixing clocks at her father’s clock shop in the city of Thanatopolis.  When her father goes missing, leaving only a grandfather clock behind, Florence finds herself the target of the city’s Parliament, and of a very strange man who calls himself “the Cartographer.”


Leave Them By the Front Door

Date: June 5, 2010 – Sample Here

Drama/Suspense – In the past seven years, he’s had twelve names, six addresses, and has seen over five thousand pairs of shoes.  He is alone, he is unhappy, and he is successful.


The Cookbook

Date: April 2, 2010 – Sample Here

Romance/Drama – The presence of a cookbook makes one girlfriend afraid of commitment question what she really wants in life.