Short Fiction

When Life Gives You the Slip — Shotgun Honey

8-Hour Detour — Lost & Loaded: a Gun’s Tale (the 509 anthologies)

Something To Hold On To — Dark Yonder 6

Last Night in Ocean Beach — Kelp Journal‘s Amber Waves of Autumn

The Vultures Will Feed — Tough Crime

The Old Money Beat — Rock and a Hard Place’s The One Percent: Tales of the Super Wealthy and Depraved

Stealing Paradise (A Grifter’s Song Book 34) — OUT NOW!

Green and California Bound (2024 Anthony Award Finalist/Macavity Award Finalist)— Sept/Oct ’23 Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

Shifting the Blame — SHOTGUN HONEY PRESENTS: THICKER THAN WATER

Where Palms Sway and the Surf Pounds (2023 Derringer Award Finalist) — Shotgun Honey

The Estate Sale (2023 Anthony Award Finalist) — Vautrin Magazine

Stand Back — 2022 Anthony Award-nominated Trouble No More anthology

Jumping the Median — 4:20 Noir: Hoosier Noir Special Edition

No Other Choice — Shotgun Honey

A Deal in the Desert — Bristol Noir

Take it to the Bank — Thriller Magazine

Tonight’s Got to be the Night — Bristol Noir (included in “Tainted Hearts & Dirty Hell Hounds” anthology)

The Latest One — Yellow Mama

Farm-to-Market Road Justice — Shotgun Honey

It’s Natural — Ghost Parachute

Hook-Up Spot — Punk Noir Magazine (reprinted in “The End of the World” by Down in the Dirt Magazine)

The Canyon Killer — Mystery Tribune



“They were both drowsy, and it only worsened mile after mile with nothing but well-worn blacktop and moonlit mountains to keep them company.”

                                                                                                                   Excerpt from “Green and California Bound”