“Pyriscence.” Cosmic Crime Stories, September 2022.
A soldier returns home from Afghanistan with a strange, ancient box, completely sealed and covered in cuneiform. He soon discovers that the box is far older than he realized, and he escapes to California’s high desert to protect his family. However, his young brother is not so easily deterred and puts everyone at risk.
My story “Pyriscence” is now available in the anthology Cosmic Crime Stories. Pick up a copy today at Amazon and add it to your list on Goodreads.
“The Mosquito Hunters of Korea.” A City of Han: stories by expat writers in South Korea.
A scientist with a US military preventive medicine unit in South Korea dies in a minefield while collecting mosquitoes in the DMZ. His supervisor, the unit’s newly appointed executive officer, takes over the position, only to find out that this was not the first such death. He will have to fight against his unit’s dark history if he is to not repeat it.
A City of Han has been listed as a #1 New Release in Asian Literature by Amazon.com. In a review by The Korea Herald, my story was compared to Joseph Conrad. Read the review here.
“The Wolf Man’s Wife.” Strange Stories, Volume 1, Fall 2019.
Maureen and Bill had a good marriage, or so it seemed, until one full moon when he became a wolf man. Their bonds of matrimony are put to the test by his newfound appetite for eating neighborhood cats and rolling in fresh poop.
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“The Camphorwood Statue.” Leaping Clear. Fall 2018.
A monk in medieval Japan has a vision of the Bodhisattva Kannon and must travel to a distant camphorwood forest to fulfill it. His journey leads not only into the heart of the forest, but into the nature of suffering.
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