Fiction Index
Fiction Index
Serial fiction, short stories, flash fiction, micro-fiction, poetry
Serial Fiction
10,000+ words
Down in the Holler: A serial speculative mystery novella featuring Judith Temple, psychic detective.
Short Stories
2000 words-10,000 words
The Firefly Catcher: Hating Lee Morton is a defining aspect of Alice’s personality, but when he returns from serving in WWII’s Pacific Theater, Alice must rethink her stance on the firefly-catching boy.
The Orphan and the Golden Trail: Trapped in a flooding cave with a dying fairy, a girl begins to have visions of a strange guide.
The Mirror: A man arrives at a remote prairie homestead to deliver a mysterious family heirloom.
Of Labor and Love: While helping a client through a precipitous labor, a doula encounters her high school ex-boyfriend.
White Rock Island: In this continuation of “The Rifter,” Olga must save the crew of the dubious cargo ship on which she is a passenger.
The Rift of Santa Rosa: In this fantasy short story, a woman unexpectedly gives birth in a magical subterranean cavern and must find a way to save herself and her baby before the sunset seals them inside.
Blanket of White: When an elderly man with dementia wanders away just as a blizzard rolls in, a young acquaintance sets out to find him.
Excerpts from the Journal of Dr. Gary Newhouse, MD: A callous doctor encounters a family grappling with a devastating diagnosis.
The Life and Times of Don: A Memoir or Whatever: A paralyzed man documents the days following his injury.
The Day the Sky Turned Orange: A swarm of migrating butterflies overtakes a small town.
Requiem for a Dusky Gopher Frog: A university professor and a student must work together to conceal the death of an endangered frog.
Unsanctioned: A pregnant woman rushes to escape the agents hunting her.
The Most Electric Time of the Year: Katie, the receptionist of Penter Painters and Holiday Decorating, must decipher a series of strange, eerie phone calls.
Disrupted: A couple grapples with the fallout of a devastating decision.
Spiral Cavity: An audiologist becomes concerned about her patient’s troubling symptoms.
Blackwater Files: Compulsion: In this addition to the Blackwater lore, a troubled young woman hunts a mysterious being through her subconscious.
The Rifter: Part II: On the run from the mob and hiding from the police, Olga the matchmaker can't figure out if her secret abilities are a help or a danger.
The Rifter: Part I: An elderly matchmaker with a secret runs afoul of a mob boss.
Flash Fiction
~2000 words or fewer
The Gardener: A newly-initiated Gardener must survive her first trip into a dangerous yew hedge maze in which a dangerous creature lurks.
The Parable of Jimmy Grey: A young soul singer leaves his rural home to pursue fame and fortune, but finds something else along the way.
The Pothole on Kentucky Avenue: During an after-school race, a little boy finds someone who needs his help.
Treasure on the Missouri: In 1854, a steamboat hits a snag on the treacherous Missouri River. In 1989, a farmer and a treasure hunter encounter something hidden beneath the soil.
A Safe Deposit: Three co-lessors enter a bank’s strongroom to open a mysterious, recently-inherited safe deposit box.
The Custodian: The Gasper Tower is a magnet for suicides – but is it a curse, or just a side effect of being a tall building? The skeptical new night janitor is poised to find out.
Untraceable: There is one thing that frightens even Death herself. An entry into the Suff lore.
Nine Patch Technical: In 1960s California, a teenage girl attempts a dangerous maneuver after challenging a skateboarding champion.
Imposter: A young professional struggles with imposter syndrome while dealing with the stringent demands of the public school system.
The Countdown: A biologist makes a return trip to a fledgling colony on Mars while carrying precious, life-saving cargo.
Micro-fiction
~250 words or fewer
End of Life Care: A woman requests an exemption from her father’s impending end-of-life VR Merge.
Watercolor: While hiding from an intruder in her home, a woman begins to receive mysterious messages.
Serum Run: A remote village waits for a sled team to return with a cure for a mysterious illness.
The Coming of Cesh-Corran: Subterranean Fae await their apocalypse.
Poetry
~500 words or fewer
[These are more *rhyming stories* than true poetry]
Whose Woods These Are: In the dark of night, a car accident strands a group of travelers on a blizzarding mountaintop, but they soon realize the woods are not as empty as they seem.
Apparition: As her mother slowly drifts away, a woman begins to notice strange apparitions in her home.