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August 22, 2020
Peppermint Christmas
On 25 June 2019, I visited my editor's girlfriend's house for the first time. I know exactly what day it was because that night, after the two of them had crashed, I sat in her living room and wrote a dark holiday short story. Technically, it was after midnight, so the story was written on […]
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August 16, 2020
The Moments Ending in Day
My editor and I had a discussion a while back in which I expressed my frustration over not having found my "home" in writing yet. "You're too literary for genre fiction," he told me, "and too commercial for literature." That hit the nail on the head exactly. And to put a fine point on it, […]
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August 15, 2020
The Wandering Man
I spend quite a bit of time on the road, either driving to and from seeing my family, or on road trips for work or pleasure. These long periods of driving provide good opportunities for working out knotty story problems, but sometimes they're also a great way for story ideas to present themselves. Not long […]
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August 10, 2020
Legality vs. Morality
Image credit: "Being Libertarian" by Dan Mitchell.
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April 20, 2020
Darla the Redneck Zombie Slayer is now available.
When zombies come a-callin, whats a redneck gal to do? Find out today. Darla the Redneck Zombie Slayer is now available at a variety of online retailers. Darla and her brother help their grandfather at his pizzeria, but then a zombie stumbles into the parlor and its not exactly what Darla expected. I had a lot []
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April 11, 2020
Under Our Skin
"Under Our Skin" started, like many of my stories do, with a single opening line: "Her face appeared in the window every time I opened the curtains." I knew immediately that this was a post-apocalyptic tale about a mother and her daughter, and that something very strange was going on between them. A week later, []
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April 9, 2020
Preorder: Darla the Redneck Zombie Slayer
A while back, I explored a what if scenario that went kinda like this: What if a single mom and her son were traveling home from a vacation right when the zombie apocalypse started? The answer became a novel-length story called The Knitter's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, which I'm currently writing alongside a couple []
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January 17, 2020
Finalist, 2019 Rash Award in Fiction
I just received word that my short story "Decoration Day" was selected as a finalist in the 2019 Rash Award in Fiction. The Rash Award is sponsored by theBroad River Review, the literary magazine of Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. The award was created in honor of Ron Rash, an award winning author […]
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July 3, 2019
“Lightning Crack, Thunder Roll” Is Now Available
My short story Lightning Crack, Thunder Roll, which was a finalist in the 2018 Rash Award for Fiction, is now available in the 2019 issue of the Broad River Review. The story is a blend of Southern Literature and Magical Realism, and is set in the 50s during the building of the dams across offshoots []
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“Lightning Flash, Thunder Roll” Is Now Available
My short story “Lightning Flash, Thunder Roll,” which was a finalist in the 2018 Rash Award for Fiction, is now available in the 2019 issue of the Broad River Review. The story is a blend of Southern Literature and Magical Realism, and is set in the ’50s during the building of the dams across offshoots […]
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