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Toby and Dad live alone in the countryside. For all they know, they live alone on the planet. They carefully watch the skies for the beasts that nearly wiped out humanity. They’ve managed to safely hide for years, but things are starting to change. There are fires on the ground and birds falling from the sky.

Coy tells the story of his life. He never knew his parents. He’s been beaten and abused, and he’s witnessed things that are nearly unspeakable. But it was all a part of what he was to become.

Years later, Jonnie, Seth and Mikey are grown up. All three are very successful in what they do. But the entity that stalks them has also evolved. To destroy them it will build a monster.

A flash fiction story with elements of psychological suspense.

Odd things are happening to the Shares. Nightmares haunt them. Their toddler seems to see things no one else can. Pictures fall. Cryptic messages appear on frosted glass. Something bad is coming. Many miles away, demented elders deliver strangely coherent messages to Alice Shoemaker. Is it time for the quest she’s been waiting for? Can she find the Shares and help them thwart this evil menace?

A flash fiction story with elements of suspense and paranormal.

Holden tries to get through college and into med school, while caring for his autistic brother and working nights at a nursing home. He’s doing well, but then senile residents at the home start saying strangely personal things to him. Worse, a menacing presence threatens his illicit side business. Holden just hopes things will get better. Instead, things get ever weirder and far more dangerous.

A flash fiction story with elements of horror and suspense.

In this third installment of the Beyond Reception Series, Alice Shoemaker travels to Oklahoma. She meets interesting characters along the way, including Andy, whose crippling disability is also a tool for incredible foresight. Meanwhile, Jade Parker, whose mere presence brings death to those close to him, waits for her to arrive and help him battle the biggest demon ever to visit this realm.

A flash fiction with elements of horror and suspense.

A short story with elements of fantasy, horror and suspense.

A short story with elements of humor and horror.

Joseph Stanton is haunted by the spirit of a past flame and a song that manages to play on its own. Donald Pagel feels a strange presence and senses inhuman changes occurring inside. Across the state, Alice Shoemaker is awoken by a strange light that leads her from the Shares' home. The ancient evil she will face is more powerful than any to date. It seems unstoppable.

Odd things are happening to the Shares. Nightmares haunt them. Their toddler seems to see things no one else can. Pictures fall. Cryptic messages appear on frosted glass. Something bad is coming. Many miles away, demented elders deliver strangely coherent messages to Alice Shoemaker. Is it time for the quest she’s been waiting for? Can she find the Shares and help them thwart this evil menace?

Reminiscent of Joshua Scribner's novels FEAR AND REPULSION and SEED, Within follows psychologist Dr. Caffer as he tracks unspeakable evil to the deepest recesses of the human mind.

Nancy has never appealed to the opposite sex. But after a visit from a magic woman, men will give up everything to have Nancy for a little while. No wonder she is not a willing patient for Doctor Wolfstone. And while the doctor deals with the powerful demon inside her, an old nemesis is on the way to destroy him.

His patient is an unwilling participant. The bound man likes the demon inside him and the ravenous appetite it brings. On top of this, the demon knows things about the doctor and will take the fight to a personal level.

Mikey, Jonnie and Seth, three prodigious 11-year-olds, and best friends, set off for a day of hunting rabbits. Little do they know that something so much more is waiting for them and that it will haunt them for the rest of their lives.

Doctor Wolfstone’s client seems harmless enough. She’s a librarian by occupation and rather plain in appearance. But what’s in her is not so plain, and it’s not harmless. Worst of all, it likes to come out once a year and hunt its prey.

The thing inside Doctor Wolfstone’s next patient has been there for years, but it’s been hanging around this realm much longer than that. It really wants to come out and meet the skilled hypnotist. And it’s very hungry.