Martha kills Bluesy and is left with the girl he’d abducted. She has to decide to keep pretending or find the life that was taken from her.
A Girl Named Janie
Category: Short Stories
Used Steinways
A Story of Friendship, Growth, and the Love of Pianos.
The Last Voice Message from Abuela
A quiet, haunting story about a woman who keeps receiving voicemails from her deceased grandmother – messages that evolve with time.
The Gardener
Following a family’s long-time gardener, Westin Yeled who discovers something that haunts him, and rocks his tiny world.
The Bel Air inside the Bog
A retired English teacher learns of a rumour about two missing high school students and sets out to solve the fifty year old puzzle.
The Last Caller
Hard-living Jack Stone is celebrating another year of cheating death, but his New Year’s Eve is interrupted by a most unexpected visitor.
Old Man at the Cafe
An old man sits at a cafe never touching his beer. An American sits down next to him. They observe each other, believing themselves superior.
El Salvador
When Bobby was twenty-one and newly arrived in America, he met a girl from El Salvador.
Mind Shaft
A young woman and a retired gold miner enter a treacherous gold mine, and end up trapped with the remains and artifacts of ancient people.
Ababeel
I was here in the spirit when prayers ignited hope and optimism within me that my sister was performing Hajj, not mockery.
More Bullfrog Than Prophet
A college instructor, in town for a seminar at the university, decides to visit his friend, to discover that he had died the week before.
The Rising
A little story about a couple of pals.
The Line in the Lake
Two strangers find themselves on opposite sides of an invisible line which unexpectedly guides them to a fortuitous future reunion.
The Marionettist
When playing with dolls gets serious.
Deja Vieux
Martin rescues his mother from her fake armed robberies of bars, while facing down his delusions of huge black crows with metallic talons.
Bootsy
Bootsy is about a whimsical cat who can predict the future, often with disturbing conclusions. Based on true events.
A Lover’s Vengeance
A sequel to ‘The Devil Made us do it,’ published in Literary Heist. This pirate tale takes place about 75 years later.