Genre Exercises

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​​McSweeney's: Dystopian sci-fi horror about rude social media Reply Guys​​

"I don’t enjoy playing the role of That Annoying Internet Guy who reflexively replies with hectoring know-it-all comments like 'Why are you surprised?' or 'How is this news?' But people force me..."

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​​​Short story in Kozy Krampus holiday horror anthology. Buy it now!​​​

You can buy a paperback or digital version of this book that features my 4000-word piece “‘The I Night I Defeated the Demon of Winter’ from Chapter XLVIII of the autobiography of Sir Gottfried von Berlichingen.”

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Story "Unfinished Conversations Package" in Flash Fiction Online's November 2025 special FamPunk issue. Read it ​here​. Tangent Online ​says​, "There is much to ponder about the relationship between parent and child in this deceptively simple tale."

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Flash piece in the anthology Twisted Trails: Tales of the Weird Wild West. Buy it ​here​ and read my story: “Specters of the Crash: A Cross-Media Survey of Paranormal Narratives Surrounding the Crush Collision of 1896 (Journal of the Texas Folklore Society, Vol. 79 No. 1 – Summer, 2025)" I examined a tragic real-life event in Texas history through the lens of Mexican ghost ballads, dark fantasy pulp, EC horror comics, Swinging Sixties steampunk, spaghetti Westerns, sci-fi manga, & a psychedelic Jodorowsky fever dream.

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At my day job, I got to write the story bible and do script continuity for ​this award-winning sci-fi horror podcast series​. It was commissioned as a prerelease promotion and story extension for the disgustingly gory game The Callisto Protocol.

My earliest speculative fiction ran on WIRED magazine's monthly back page item Found: Artifacts from the Future. Read some of them ​here​.