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February 8, 2012
SEVERED RELATIONS — Free Promo!
SEVERED RELATIONS is a duo of deadly stories that brings you the best in matrimonial butchery. Everyone has experienced a choppy relationship. But just wait until you read these two tales of horror…
In "The Butcher's Reunion," a cuckolded butcher slaughters his wife and seeks her lover only to find he cannot escape dire prophetic justice. WHAM!
Equally dark and suspenseful, in "Almost Betrothed," a timid woman unlucky with love finds the...
February 7, 2012
Inspiration from Higher Sources
On June 24 last year I spoke at Seton Hill University's Writing Popular Fiction In Your Write Mind alumni retreat on the topic, "Alternative Methods of Idea and Story Generation." I talked about being open to receiving story ideas and writing assistance from higher consciousness.
I also work as a Spiritualist medium. My metaphysical musings are posted on my other blog, Building the Bridge, which you might want to subscribe to. I've channeled through writing since 1989...
January 29, 2012
DESPERATE SPIRITS On the Loose!
In this duo of supernatural thrillers, Calvin Bricker deals with desperate spirits right in his own neighborhood.
In "The Vacant Lot," a supernatural presence beckons from the empty neighborhood lot. Calvin's curiosity leads him to an aged portrait painter with a terrible secret about a dead undertaker and his missing wife, who seeks eternal release.
In "How I Was Cured of Naïveté," a seemingly innocent spirit appears in the foyer of...
January 18, 2012
Get STRAY for Kindle — Free Promo!
Tad has a problem: He ran away from home only to find he has no place to stay in the big city. After selling his abusive father's comics collection, the sixteen-year-old twink hasn't near enough money for a bus ticket home.
Two days without food and two nights in an alley force him to do what he swore he wouldn't: trick for cash. But trick he must—just this once—to get back home...
January 17, 2012
STRAY Published
Tad has a problem: he ran away from home only to find he has no place to stay in the big city. After selling his abusive father's comics collection, the sixteen-year-old twink hasn't near enough money for a bus ticket home. Two days without food and two nights in an alley force him to do what he swore he wouldn't: trick for cash. But trick he must—just this once—to get back home, lest he end up living on the streets of...
January 9, 2012
Response to a Concerned Heterosexual Christian
Prayer didn't work. Fasting didn't work. Psychotherapy and inner healing didn't work. Deliverance failed. And reparative therapy made me want to commit suicide.
I tried everything over the course of twenty years to rid myself of same-sex attraction. I realized I could no longer deny who I was simply because my spiritual community held narrowly prescribed notions of what was acceptable, moral, and holy.
So I decided to be true to myself, to discover who God...
October 31, 2011
MAMA SAID Available for Kindle
On his thirteenth birthday, Buddy gets shipped up north by his religious mother, who can't cope with his sister's teenage pregnancy.
Just as he resigns himself to spending the entire summer at Gram's farm caring for kittens and cows, his bitter sister Brinda arrives, ending his peace and solitude.
When her boyfriend Jackie shows up and turns his attentions to Buddy from his bride-to-be, Buddy must do what Mama said—or take...
August 30, 2011
Divinely Inspired Dark Writing Prompts at Michael A. Arnzen's GORELETS
"Dark Promptings" is a special series of guest-written creative writing prompts at Gorelets.com, aimed at sparking the imagination's gasoline for writers from any genre… but with a dark or devious discoloration.
Guest contributors are folks who wrote articles appearing in Arnzen and Miller's fat new non-fiction book for fiction writers of all kinds, Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction.
My dark prompts, selected from the Bible, are now fiendishly available. Check them...
