My odd little fable "Ekte's Mirror" appears in the first volume of Owen Wears' "The New Exterus: The Journal of the Speculative, the Fantastic, and the Bizarre." Ekte is an enchanted smith and a wonder-worker whose creations are shaped exactly to meet the demands of customers.... but not necessarily quite in the way they imagine. … Continue reading Do you get what you pay for?

My first publication this year: The Scribe Anthology from Breaking Rules Publishing includes my short story "The Four Last Sings." This... pacifist communitarian survivalist story? inspirational post-apocalyptic Christian lesbian love story? begins, "On the third morning of the apocalypse, Arlie painted “WELCOME” in straggling rainbow capitals on the side of the rabbit shed that faced … Continue reading Love across the lines

Mysterion publishes thought-provoking Christian speculative short stories, and I'm grateful that that includes two of mine. Now, as soon as I say "Christian speculative stories" I find myself wanting to add an asterisk. Mysterion's tales aren't the kind where all the good brave loving upstanding people are Christians and all the other people are occult … Continue reading Mysterion 2: stories of miracle, magic,mystery, and madness…

My story "In My Father's House," in which a woman with anxiety issues takes a long drive to check on her elderly and estranged father, gets stuck inside a nightmare which might be his or her own, and struggles to get them both back out, is part of Vox et Liber's newly released anthology "Graveyard … Continue reading A different kind of haunted house story…

What stories do we carry in the marrow of our souls, perhaps too deeply hidden for us either to see clearly or to dislodge? What would happen if there was a library where careful listeners could bring those stories out of us so that we might see them and let them go? What if we … Continue reading Bone Stories