My Focus

Stories of misfits, eccentrics, and outsiders navigating the realities that threaten to shatter them. The challenges of mental illness, poverty, addiction, desperation, and despair set against hope, love, family, grace, and the beauty of the natural world.

Five Days in Darling

Horrible, fantastical things loom just out of sight in the dying micropolitan of Darling, Iowa. Dragons and psychics exist side-by-side. Bubble worlds and terrifying prisons hide in plain sight. Even the river holds a strange secret. Paranormal thrills and chills hide around every corner in these five dark genre-spanning original stories:

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Other Writing

Diagnostic Criteria for 299.0

Every month I try to submit a few short pieces for publication. The spring of 2024 I wasn’t doing a very good job at hitting that goal. A medical...