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After over two decades of focusing on film making, I'm excited to share my prose with readers. As with my films, so it is with fiction. Here you'll find my horror, sci fi, and fantasy works. Thank you for reading!

2024

"RENT ONE, GET ONE FREE" in Tales of Sley House 2024

Enjoy this year's mix of never-before-published short stories and poems from today's up-and-coming genre writers. This collection is sure to leave readers entertained, terrified, laughing, and crying. From the seductive to the horrifying, sometimes in the same story, these stories run the spectrum of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy. Sit back, turn the lights low, grab your favorite beverage, and enter into Sley House. If you dare.

 "The Eye of God" in Beyond the Bounds of INfinity
Welcome to a world of horror viewed through a kaleidoscope lens. Embark on a journey to untangle the writhing tendrils of human terror in a dimension where the possible and impossible blend—an unstable realm where comfort can be found in the coldest pits, and dark gods feast upon the sweetest suffering—where infernal sounds birth silent letters that drift along midnight shores and the unexplained lurks beneath crumbling urban structures. Step over the edge of what you think you know, and find yourself…Beyond the Bounds of Infinity!
Featuring stories by L. Marie Wood, S.A. Cosby, Jessica McHugh, and Mary SanGiovanni—alongside newer voices like Cassius Kilroy, Jessica L. Sparrow, and Vicky Velvet--Beyond the Bounds of Infinity offers a collection of weird fiction and cosmic horror stories that are diverse down to the cellular level. From Taíno folk horror to the horror of identity in a world that just doesn’t understand, from cozy to apocalyptic, and everything in between, let these authors show you what fear really is, and what it means to them.
Are you brave enough to step into the madness that awaits within these pages?

"Godhead" in Ethereal Nightmares

"Eerie Whispers Beckon... Enter the Ethereal Nightmares!

Do you crave chilling tales that blur the lines between reality and nightmare?
Ethereal Nightmares: An Anthology of Twisted Tales offers a chilling journey through twelve dark fantasies, each a masterfully crafted descent into the depths of horror.
Unleash the nightmares:
  • A botched burglary unleashes a monstrous consequence.
  • A seasoned warrior faces a horrifying, undead uprising.
  • A weekend getaway becomes a desperate struggle for survival.
  • Beneath a luxurious mansion lies a dark secret, waiting to be unearthed.
  • A battle for a soul unfolds as a terrifying entity seeks to consume its host.
These are just glimpses into the horrors that await...
Embrace the dark whispers. Dare to enter the Ethereal Nightmares."

"The Divergent Helix" (reprint) in Year's Best Arthropod Short Fiction Vol. 1

It's a fantastic anthology filled with spectacular tales of arthropods in all their joint-legged beauty. Featuring stories from Lex Chamberlin, Lyndsey Croal, Marie Croke, Gwen C. Katz, Andrew Kozma, Anna Madden, Fiona Moore, Jonathan Olfert, Josh Pearce, and Rachel Searcey.

The anthology was edited by JW Stebner and will be released exclusively for Hexagon subscribers on June 24th.

"Within the naga's coils" in Welcome to Your Body: Lessons in Evisceration

Each limb tells a story. Every organ shares a secret.
A woman saves the leg of her dead child. A man leaps from soul to soul, trying to find a pure heart. Uteri wander, skin peels back, and human bodies liquify all over this world.
Slice into the anatomy of this collection to discover all the unseen horrors the human body can deliver.

Brand new stories from Alex Wolfgang, Ai Jiang, Mary Rajotte, Julie Sevens, Christopher O'Halloran, Sasha Brown, Bridget D. Brave, Taylor Ketterer, Demi-Louise Blackburn, Lindsey Ragsdale, Emma E. Murray, Johnathon Heart, P.L. McMillan, Rachel Searcey, Bryan Young, Kai Delmas, and David Worn, with a foreword from Paula D. Ashe.

"Boys will be boys" in Monstrous Femme Magazine, Issue 3 (Spring 2024)

"A King's Ransom" in Inner Worlds Zine, Issue 2 (FEbruary 2024)
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Artwork 'this cereal is stale' by Marie Magnetic

2023

"Symbiogenesis, Fractured" in Dark Void Magazine, Spring 2023
"Dismantled" in Aphotic Realm. Spring 2023
"The Divergent Helix" in Diet Milk Magazine, Spring/Summer 2023
"How to Make it in Hollywood" in Collage Macabre: An Exhibition of Art Horror, April 2023
"Octavia's Anguish" in Flash Point SF, May 2023 (free online read)
"Echo Lake" in Cosmic Horror Monthly Issue 38, August 2023 (free online read)
"The Trochophore" in The Darkness Beyond the Stars: An Anthology of Space Horror, August 2023
"The Branded Heart" in Pyre Magazine Vol 2 Issue 1, November 2023

2022

"The Maligned Cure" in Unspeakable Horrors Vol 2, September 2022 (Amazon)
"Beware Spectres Bearing Candy" in Suburban Witch Magazine Issue 3, October 2022 (free online read)
"Full Moon Harmony" in Rural Fiction Magazine, December 2022 (free online read)
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