This story originally appeared in The Collapsar in April, 2018. The day I killed S was the happiest day of my life. He was a miserable man. Miserable and cruel and when I cut across his throat with that little knife, I messed it all up and he died so slowly and said so many terrible things, or tried to, that I laughed and laughed. He wasn’t a miserable man. I mean he was, it’s just he was so handsome. And when he turned his light on, goddamn, it was like the sun. His smile wa

The Juniper Bush originally appeared on Entropy Mag on December 31, 2016. Last summer my son disappeared. The police said some folks saw him walking along the river bank after school. The river was still rough the day they found his backpack and his shoes, three days after he didn’t come home from summer school. It had rained the day he disappeared. They never found his body. Standing there with the police, holding my daughter, I watched white peaks froth and foam in the dark

This story appeared in Out of the Cave, an anthology of young adult horror, in May 2014. Two teenagers agree that something weird and awful changed their lives one night. But what? Nothing is right and everything is wrong in this story about two siblings who want a night under the stars. To read the story, buy Out of the Cave in kindle or paperback today. #fiction #horror