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Short Stories

Crime, Noir, & Dark Fiction Stories                           2024/2025

"The Keys to Hades." Close to the Bone. May 2, 2025.

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"Paper, Scissors, Rock." Guilty Crime Story Magazine. Ed. Brandon Barrows. Issue 14.

          Detective Annual. Spring 2025: 74-97. Print.

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"Berlin Boogie."  Becoming Nosferatu:  Stories Inspired by Silent German Horror. Eds.

          Matthew Sorrento & Gary D. Rhodes. (Orlando, FL: Bear Manor Media, 2025):  63-              83. Print.

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"Queens of the Air." Circus of the Dead: Anthology of Circus-Themed Horror Stories. Ed.

          Chad Anctil. (Kolkata: Wicked Shadow, 2025): 140-64. Print.

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"The Sorcerer's Notebook." Gothic Gazette: Dark Omens. Ed. Parth S. Chakraborty.

          (Kolkata: Pulp Cult, 2025): 32-52. Print.

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"The Lip Reader." Who Let the Gods Out?: Cosmic Hunger. Eds. Parth S. Chakraborty &

          Rasiika Sen. (Kolkata: Wicked Shadow, 2025): 67-84. Print.

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"The Revenge Room." Horrific Scribblings. March 14, 2025. 

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"Freefalling" & "Rock Clinging." Blink of an Eye: Anthology of Dark Flash Fiction.

          Ed. Parth S. Chakraborty. (Kolkata: CultureCult, 2025: 22-24; 25-27. Print.

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"The Goblin of Thumb Butte Trail." Guilty Crime Story. Issue 13. Winter 2025: 65 -

          85. Print. 

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"Her Skin So Soft." Thriller Magazine. Ed. Ammar Habib. Spring 2025: 32-46.

          Print.

 

"A Serenade for Rats." The Yard: Crime Blog. Jan. 2, 2025.

 

"Crows to Peck an Eagle." The Piker Press. Jan. 20, 2025.

 

"Department Store Santa." Story Street Writers. Christmas flash-fiction

          competition. Sel. runner-up. Dec. 31, 2024.

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"Cavage's Four Minutes of Totality." Stygian Lepus. Edition #20. Eds. Jodi       

          Christensen et al. (The Stygian Lepus, 2024): 91-104. Print.

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"The Room Devoid of Light." The Devil's Playground. Ed. Kasey Hill. (Rocky

          Mount, VA: Dark Moon Rising): 239-52. Print. 

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"The Halloween Wolf." All Hallows Eve. Vol. 2. Halloweenthology. Eds. Parth S.

          Chakraborty & Rasiika Sen. (Wicked Shadow, 2024): 66-82. Print.

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"Fire Sale at the Burdock Family Business." Midnight Garden: Where Dark Tales

          Grow. Comp. & Ed. Kaye Lynn Booth. (N.p.: Wordcrafter, 2024): 124-43.

          Print.​

 

"The Breakwall." Yellow Mama Webzine Halloween Issue #106. Oct. 15, 2024.

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"Hunting Dogs Don't Bark." Near to the Knuckle. Oct. 4, 2024.

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"The Mennonite's Angel." Journ_E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature. Vol. 3,

          No. 2. (Mind's Eye, 2024): 62-73.

 

"Hog Trough Harry." Short-Story.Me. June 19, 2024.

 

"The Parcel." Yellow Mama. Issue #104. June 15, 2024.

 

"Scotch for Special Occasions." Punk Noir. May 10, 2024.

 

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