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About the Writing

(What Does Dan?)

“The Fair Child” (short story) – Finalist, Fabula Press Short Story Contest, November 2024 [read]

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“As Good As Gold And Better (a.k.a. God Help Us, Every One)” (flash fiction) - Honorable Mention, Weird Christmas Annual Flash Fiction Contest, December 2023 [read/listen]

 

“A Churchyard Carol” (flash fiction) - Special Category Winner, Weird Christmas Annual Flash Fiction Contest, December 2021 [read/listen]

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“Halyards of Black and Silver” (short story) - Dark Cheer: Cryptids Emerging (Volume Blue) anthology by Improbable Press, December 2021 [buy]

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“Vanity, Vanity” (short story) - adapted for audio performance by Pseudopod, Episode #774, September 2021 [read/listen]

“Complex, dark stuff that hit me somewhere I haven't been in a while, in a way which was brave enough to make me uncomfortable.

- Alasdair Stuart, Pseudopod program host

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“Flypaper” (short story) – Pressfuls anthology Wildgenus Volume 2, August 2021 [subscribe to read]

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“The Beech Tree War” (novelette) – Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things Volume 4, March 2021 [read]

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“All Is Bright” (flash fiction) - Honorable Mention, 2020 3rd Annual Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest, December 2020 [read/listen]​

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“Flashback Blues” (short story) – Cowboy Jamboree Magazine Issue 6.1, “Prine primed: a special tribute issue to John Prine,” October 2020 [buy]

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“Billy Bagbones: A Folktale” (short story)

  - Darker Magazine, September 2021 (Russian translation by Katarina Vorontsova) [read]

  - adapted for audio performance by Nocturnal Transmissions podcast (Kristin Holland), Episode #83, September 2020 [listen]

  - Hedge Apple, October 2018 (first publication) [buy]

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“And Every Living Thing After Its Kind” (short story)

  - story printed in Analyzing Short Stories (10th edition, Kendall Hunt Publishing), July 2020 [buy]

  - Kudzu House Quarterly Issue #6.4, February 2017 (first publication)

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Old Man Winter” (short story)  - adapted for audio performance by Nocturnal Transmissions podcast (Kristin Holland), Episode #74, April 2020 [listen]

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“A Witch's Work” (short story) – Novel Noctule Issue #1: Misfortune, January 2020

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"Advent" (flash fiction) - Honorable Mention, 2019 Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest, December 2019 [read/listen]

 

Ax Mama” (short story)

   - adapted for audio performance by Nocturnal Transmissions podcast (Kristin Holland), Episode #65, December 2019 [listen]

   - Don't Cry to Mama anthology by Jolly Horror Press, February 2019 (first publication) [buy]

 

Hometown Hero” (short story) – Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers, Vol. 4 by Hellbound Books, October 2019 [buy]

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“Little Sips” (flash fiction) – Flash Fiction Fridays Fall 2019 catalog by Harbinger Press, September 2019

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"Cindy Lee The Incredible" (short story) – Magic For Beginners: A Charity Anthology for Kids by Fantasia Divinity Publishing, August 2019 [buy] [Proceeds benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital]

 

“Do Not Resuscitate” (short story)

   - adapted for audio performance by Nocturnal Transmissions podcast (Kristin Holland), Episode #57, August 2019 [listen]

   - Alcyone Issue #1, January 2018 (first publication) [buy]

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The Punkin Folk” (short story) – Campfire Tales anthology by Chipper Press/Zimbell House Publishing, June 2019 [buy]

 

“The Green-Eyed Kid” (short story) – Frontier Tales Issue # 116, May 2019 (Voted Reader's Choice Story of the Month) [read]

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“A Whaleman of Fairhaven” (short story) – Sanitarium Magazine #1, January 2019 [buy - UK  /  USA]

“A taut period-piece that is equal parts Lovecraft and Moby Dick... this piece is written in brilliantly devised authentic language... worthy of Coleridge, Melville and Lovecraft on its own terms.”

- Joseph Sale, STORGY Magazine

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“Little Lost Amy” (short story) – adapted for audio performance by the Nosleep Podcast, Season 11 Episode #23, November 2018 [listen]

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 “Transubstantiation Blues” (short story) – Re:Fiction, September 2018 Story Contest winner, published October 2018

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 “The Ruins of Cynopolis” (short story)

   - Beyond Borderlands Issue #2, July 2015 (first publication)

   - Curating Alexandria Collection #2: Exhuming Alexandria, October 2018 (second publication) [buy]

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 “Bed Rest” (short story) – adapted for audio performance by the Nosleep Podcast, Season 11 Episode #2, June 2018 [listen]

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 “Lord of the Castle” (short story) – Rosette Maleficarum, December 2017 [read]

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 “Mister Midnight” (short story) – Grotesque Quarterly Magazine Vol. 1, Issue #2, October 2017 [buy]

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“A Man of the World” (flash fiction) – The Sacrificial Issue #6, September 2017 [read]

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Jonathan Apples” (novelette) – Sanitarium Issue #39, December 2015 [buy]

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“Cachette” (short story) – Indiana Voice Journal Issue #7, February 2015 [read]

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