I glared at the broken elevator every time I passed it, cursing my landlord as I hauled another box up to the tenth floor. I wasn’t necessarily out of shape, but the workout made me seriously reconsider my new apartment....
Horror
Hollywood Forever
"A sociopathic police detective investigates text messages from her long dead lesbian lover."
Detective Erica Vargas wore her gender like a uniform. She looked at the younger woman across the table. The faint gulp told as much as the perky yellow sweater with bright greek letters. Vargas's favorite tell was the makeup marred...
Attack Of The Loving Dead
"She died under mysterious circumstances—or did she?"
“Dude, you gotta see this,” Pat said. “Fresh meat.”I rolled my eyes. There were several ways of coping with being constantly surrounded by death and putrefaction, the perks of working in the morgue-slash-autopsy of the forensics department. Pat just had...
Bloodlust
"He goes to inspect a property he's interested in and finds more than an abandoned house!"
The decrepit old house stood alone high on the hill outside of town. Known as the Connelly mansion, it had become the stuff of many rumors, scary tales, and legends.Some said the place was the scene of a gruesome family...
What have I woken up? Part I
"Something is in the house with me"
It was a time before midnight when I woke up from a window banging open downstairs in my still to-be-tamed country home. It was a dilapidated building, with lots of rot to be replaced, lots of cracks to be repaired....
The Fucking Plague
"The Fucking Plague comes and goes."
As he walked across mostly barren streets, Jim ruminated on his current situation. The corpses left behind by the plague had mostly been either cleaned up or rotted into nothing. Used to be you could hardly pass a region without...
Black wheels spin on the wet blacktop, kicking up water as she drives through darkness, Still Corners’ ‘Sad Movies’ playing on fuzzy speakers via her favorite station. It's a night when not even the moon threatens to shine behind the...
There’s No Crying in Hockey
"A 'goon' on a women ice hockey team is stunned by a very unexpected visitor to the locker room"
My dad regretted not having a son. He denies it of course but I could tell by how he pushed athletics on me at a young age. He even bought me a jock strap for my fourth birthday which confused...
Slasher Party Massacre
"Straight to Video at a Blockbuster near you"
The three of them sat watching movies and tossing popcorn back and forth. It was their usual Friday night ritual and had been for years.They were all now in their early thirties. They had gone through jobs, marriage, boyfriends, and probably some...
Memories Can Bring you Home
"Shay rediscovers herself with help from Myn and Sally"
Shauna stood outside the Bed and Breakfast, looking up and down the main street. She looked for moments frozen in time and tried to capture the memories that she should have. The street looked narrower than in her memories and...







