Everything’s Coming Up Roses
My roses win at the County Fair every year, even though I tell my secret to anyone who asks. They say Myra, how do you get them to bloom so red and full? And I tell them it’s the blood. Some folk...
View ArticleZombies Calling
The zombie apocalypse was long foretold as a rather exciting bit of bother involving shotguns and chainsaws, but the reality of it is rather depressingly boring. The Zees shuffle about their daily...
View ArticleThe Costco Diet
Some days you just need a day off. Not really a vacation, just a break, you know? I did that the other day, just tried to relax, but I started to feel stir crazy. I washed the car, and remembered how...
View ArticleWelcome to Flash Fiction Friday.
I’m proud to announce that I’ve been inducted as a moderator at the weekly writing site Flash Fiction Friday, run by Ron Earl Phillips. Along with Doc Shaw and Flannery Alden, I’ll be submitting...
View ArticleThe Lost Children: A Charity Anthology
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology When I asked Fiona “McDroll” Johnson to take the guest spot at Ron Earl Phillips’ Flash Fiction Friday, I had no idea the response she’d get. She gave us a...
View ArticleThe Lost Children: A Charity Anthology now available
30 powerful stories from around the world to benefit two children’s charities: PROTECT: The National Association to Protect Children (www.protect.org) and Children 1st Scotland...
View ArticleGrift Magazine
John Kenyon has a spiffy new crime site on the web called Grift Magazine. He has begun a weekly flash fiction feature. Last week it opened with Matthew Funk’s powerful “The Town They Earned,” and this...
View ArticlePhil’s Last Stand
For the Flash Fiction Friday prompt “Groundhog Day.” Phil’s Last Stand Phil was scared.Not of his own shadow, but of the three men from ConAgra who’d dropped a duffel bag of green outside his den the...
View ArticleThe Ten Thousand Pound Banana
This story was written for Patti Nase Abbott‘s A Day at the Zoo challenge: The Ten Thousand Pound Banana (featuring Candle) Me and Nige were in the shop talking about potassium when Cy told us we had...
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