Five Days in Darling

Pocket dimensions, dragon conventions, and psychic psychopaths all appear in this little town on the river. Five short stories give you a chance to meet the people, see the sights, and maybe even survive the night.

If you like your stories dark and supernatural, or if you’re a fan of urban fantasy, paranormal, or horror—Five Days in Darling has something for you.

• “Not In My Back Yard” follows an operator of the world’s strangest toll booth trying to come to grips with what’s happening at home and whether his job might have something to do with it.

• In “Worse than Chicago” the remaining dragons hold their annual convention at a little hotel in Darling, Iowa with potentially cataclysmic consequences.

• “Whisper of the Wind Chimes” chronicles what happens when a man who wants peace and quiet finds a supernatural answer. But once he finds it can he escape it?

• In “Love, Death, and Mayflies” a college kids finds the more he drinks, the stranger his friend gets. At the height of his drunkenness a dark secret comes to light that may claim his life.

• In “Sleepless Nights” Brady wakes up inside of someone else’s mind every time he falls asleep. When Brady ends up inside the head of a violent sadist and tries to meddle with his plans, he ends up as the police’s prime suspect. Can he expose the man before he winds up behind bars?