About time I whipped something together with a listing of these all in one place! If you're considering reading one — THANK YOU, btw m(_ _)m — and aren't sure whether it might be your cup of tea or not, you could also start by trying one of my published short stories, most of which (unless starred*) are available to read for free by following the below links...
Published Short Fiction
"French Wooden Clogs" at Stardust Review
"Greys" at Martian Chronicle *
"Patently Falsetto" at Watershed Review
"Rare Fish, Small Pond" at Propertius Press *
"You wanna know about this here bumper sticker?" at Grim & Gilded
Novels
The Havenauts: a love story
A fragmented, kaleidoscopic portrait of an aborted young adulthood, in the worst corners Los Angeles and the entertainment industry have to offer. This novel follows a pair of starving artists, in a relationship and careers whose maturation have been rudely arrested, and doomed to fail despite their best efforts, for economic reasons before they have even begun. They further grapple with addiction, promiscuity, and egos which do not help matters any. The narrative is structured episodically, organized around an illuminating array of thematically significant, iconic locations, both familiar and legendary, to residents of the city and also for those who know them from portrayals in popular media.
TAME, or: Holodomor my beer
When tragedy strikes a renowned throuple of big cat wranglers, and their third wheel is slain by a tiger performer, the distraught female lead commits suicide by feline, and her reeling husband follows shortly in her footsteps, but not before releasing their entire blood-thirsty menagerie of exotic beasts upon a small Nevada town just outside Vegas, to stalk unsuspecting residents in search of easy prey.
A Progress: an allegory
In a not so distant future all the world's children are disappearing, being gobbled up by an ever-expanding network of sentient, carnivorous underground pipelines known as the Worm, made up of the wealthiest clandestine oligarchs and protected by the most rigorous government efforts. Those few millennials and younger who remain have become feral and vicious, roving in cannibal gangs, driven to inhabiting the sewers and selling their bodies for chocolate bars, while they plot a concerted campaign to overthrow and ultimately consume the Worm and take back their planet.
The Experiment: a book about slavery
As the hundred year anniversary of emancipation approaches, a pair of mysterious old-moneyed Virginian siblings stage an elaborate trial to ascertain whether for industrialists 'freedom' is still a more cost-effective means of exploiting workers for maximal profits, to determine whether slavery should remain prohibited for another century.
Short Story Collections
Dick Jokes: tales of fallacies and impetus
Short stories about class and love, or lack thereof, explored through the lenses of satire, science fiction, horror, and allegory.
Nighted Colours: songs for the fallen
A curated selection of moderately deranged short stories about death and dying, featuring a fantastic collection of grifters, witches, clergymen, poltergeists, sex workers, simpletons, demigods, serial killers, mutants, popes, bounty hunters, junkies, freaks, pythons, contortionists, aliens, bank robbers, lizard women, killer cops, glass eaters, and some we assume good people.
Missile Mania: drama and novelettes
A collection of assorted one-acts and short stories ranging from works most recent to rare, eerily prescient juvenilia long considered lost to the annals of time, exploring such subjects as neurodivergence, drone war, recovery, giving thanks, and a youth vainly squandered grasping for love and purchase amongst urban squalor.
Children's Stories for the Last Generation
Ominous fables of a darker variety, about subjects such as hitting rock bottom, the Jonestown massacre, animal rights, environmentalism, meritocracy and chattel slavery, which could prove instructive for a generation who very conceivably may not survive into adulthood.
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