Jonah’s cuff bit into a fresh bruise on his arm, but he was reluctant to push the sleeve back. His hoodie’s funk was already hitting his...

The last time he’d left Pretty’s front door he’d taken every back road he could find, hoping he might get lost. Postponing the inevitable...

This scene is one of the first I wrote for this novel, a bitchy catfight which, originally in a different setting, was an exchange I...

Fifteen Pretty Candace Seever, died in her sleep. Greg Isley, accidental gunshot wound (had been drinking, thought gun was...

*Author's Note: As this excerpt begins, Owen had been gathering Pretty's insight about her old high school classmate, and friend, Vincent...

When Rob had designed Sabrina’s house, it was in accordance to her strict specifications—which in no way resembled the designer suits and...

The Shadow Collector may not be my first novel, but it is certainly my oldest novel. Sort of. I began writing seriously, for publication,...

A lofty goal of 75 books in one year was hijacked by finishing my own novel, which will release sometime in the spring of 2023, BUT! ...

Author's Note: Once again I have employed The Red Brick as setting for my favourite short story. Edson residents might recognize Edson,...

Inspiration is everywhere and most certainly lives in the most storied building in my little town. The Red Brick, once a school, now...

“Humor me,” Mabel’s physician, Everett, had said, insisting that she ‘At least take the tour!’ of the senior’s lodge. “You seem to think...

If ever a year existed when a dive into fiction was far preferable to reality, 2021 was it. (Although 2020 nipped hard at its heels, and...

Hattie never had much imagination, was never one to sneak or get into trouble, so that day, when she side-eyed me all sketchy and said,...

C*VID Fatigue is a phenomenon that's happening because we have been immersed in a traumatic event, with multiple losses, for well over...

Warning: this counseling session is not going to coddle you. Quality counseling sessions should never coddle you. After all, good therapy

Every year I challenge myself to read a variety of genres, yet every year a theme nonetheless emerges, and I will have gravitated to one...

After the very first rough draft of Within The Summit's Shadow was reviewed by my beta readers, one resounding criticism was consistent...

Today the horizon will swallow the sun early, plunging us into the darkest night of the year. How symbolic it is: a blackened day of...

As a kid, she was a prodigy and today she remains a virtuoso. Elizabeth McBrien, heroine of Within The Summit's Shadow, the second...

As a kid, she was a prodigy and today she remains a virtuoso. Elizabeth McBrien, heroine of Within The Summit's Shadow, the second...