My WWI-era crime novel US HONEST CROOKS just won the Black List's 2025 Unpublished Novel Award for Crime & Mystery

Check out stories, reading lists, and more on Medium. Please especially check out my series Vexation Way on Medium, a serialized sci-fi fitness adventure...thing. You'll see.

More short fiction can be found here:

"Dead Old Guys" ~ Medium

"The Spinners" ~ Medium

"The Grenade" ~ The Killing Rain: Left Coast Crime 2024 Anthology; Hard copy available from the publisher, Down and Out Books

"Sounding the Bones" ~ Medium

“Portrait of the Barbarian as a Young Man” ~ Medium

“A Confession, On Toilet Paper” ~ Facere Art Gallery “Signs of Life” Collection and on Medium

"If Ever You Have Need of My Life" ~ Black Heart Magazine (all proceeds to benefit Everytown For Gun Safety)

"The Instrument" ~ Geometry

"Animals Could Get In" ~ Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine

"Who's Afraid of Dred Scott" ~ Easy Street Magazine

"Socrates and the Common Cuckoo" ~ Hobart: Another Literary Journal

"Eulogy for a Small People" ~ Tahoma Literary Review, Volume 2, No. 3

"Scenes from the Aftermath" ~ Tahoma Literary Review, Volume 2, No. 3, reprinted on Medium