Short Stories

  • Pumped Up Kicks

    I wrote this story last year and although not yet published it has had many good reviews. It deals with the damage done to young minds by drug and parental abuse. Hope you enjoy it!

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  • Pushing Up

    A story recently published in Round Up – a zine from Texas- http://www.roundupzine.com/magazine/

     

    It’s a story about a woman suffering from spousal abuse narrated by her friend a pawnbroker. She decides that she has had enough and takes the law in her own hands.

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  • One Foot in the Grave

    A short story told from the perspective of an aging gravedigger who knows where all the bodies are buried. Except all is not as it seems…

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  • Strength in Numbers

    Jeremy Meyers is floating through his teen years loaded with debt, a dead end job and no girlfriend. All of that changes when he receives a letter personally addressed to him with a single series of numbers 230048977794908. Is this some cruel joke or the key to a fortune?

     

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  • The End of the Circus

    Barry Trotter is caught in a loveless marriage, money problems and failing job prospects. All that changes when in a drunken stupor he is approached in a local bar by a stranger with an offer he can’t refuse.

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  • Typewriters of the Rich and Fa ous

    They moved to the country to give the young author inspiration. She moved because she wanted to start a family. It’s not working out for either. He has a Jack Nicholson size writer’s block and is having trouble getting her husband in the mood. All of that changes when they visit this creepy little antique shop

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  • From A Hundred Feet Away

    Meet Matt Hardy, a young man bumping his way through life like something a pinball machine. His wife’s big announcement has prompted him to finally get a hold of his life. He needed a job, a real job, a job with balls. Enter a business opportunity and a beautiful woman who is not what she seems and you get a whole new awakening.

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This is a collection of must-read novellas. All inspired by actual events and fictionalized. Included are the Darkening Skies, the mystery surrounding the Hindenburg disaster. Stolen Sisters is the story of a native woman in Alaska who goes missing. Her older brother, an Anchorage police officer, comes to the rescue. In Killing in the Name … Continued

evil women mystery

In the latest Benjamin Ross mystery, Benjamin and his partner, Detective Rizzo, work their toughest case. Two seemingly unrelated executions, both with connections to the Pentagon. Mona, her hands full with her new job and dealing with a burglary ring in Pearl River, is in no position to help.

running with the devil

Benjamin Ross becomes the chief suspect in a hit-and-run murder. While acting as a nursemaid for his friend Detective Rizzo, he races to clear his name and find the real killer. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, Mona Roane, leaves her position with the NYPD to take on a new role as an Assistant Police Chief in a … Continued

sympathy for the Devil mystery

“How did it feel to put a bullet in my brain?” Detective Rizzo couldn’t believe his eyes. It was a note from a dead man. It had the same color of ink and the same handwriting as the others. His mind took him back a few months and replayed the sound of his bullet exploding … Continued

All money raised from your purchase of any of these books is donated by the author to local food banks.