Short Fiction
Last Night in Ocean Beach — Forthcoming in Kelp Journal‘s Amber Waves of Autumn
The Vultures Will Feed — Forthcoming in Tough Crime
The Old Money Beat — in 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 — 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”