Short Fiction
2024
​A diner server abandoned by her husband faces hard choices to get by.
"Through Thick and Thin"
Ellery Mystery Magazine
Private Eye Andy Hayes uncovers deep secrets as he helps a husband trying to redeem his infidelity
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Black Cat Weekly
PI Andy Hayes looks into a case of catfishing that annoyed the wrong
kind of people.
"Promised Land"
Black Cat Weekly
A security specialist on moon base Shackleton City stumbles across a deadly plot.
"They Always Took Longer"
Mystery Magazine, June 2024
Trouble stalks freelance courier
Mercury Carter as he chaperones
a climate change scientist
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Alfred Hitchcock
Mystery Magazine
PI Andy Hayes encounters deadly forces as he investigates a lawmaker's unorthodox behavior
"Shots To the Heart"
Storiaverse
A Christmas rom-com meet-cute in an usual setting:
a zombie apocalypse
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Black Cat Weekly 142
A private detective lives up
to her reputation for harshly uncompromising standards
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"Cold Comfort"
Private Dicks and Disco Balls
A blizzard complicates private eye Jerry Hollister's efforts to find a missing man.
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2023
Mickey Finn 21st Century Noir: Vol. 4
A police officer tries to love and protect two sisters, with deadly consequences
Black Cat Mystery Magazine
October 2023
A rare book theft ring targets a newly discovered H.P. Lovecraft novel.
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To Eat Anymore"
Mystery Magazine
June 2023
The delivery of a long-lost locket takes a dark turn.
A Mecury Carter adventure.
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Mystery Tribune
July/August 2023
A man grappling with his father's abandonment faces hard truths when called to his mother's dying bedside.
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"Supply Chains"
Black Cat Weekly No. 89
May 2023
Unruly customers in a pandemic-era cafe test the owner's limits with their rudeness to a server.​​
"Habits"
Black Cat Weekly No. 86, April 2023
A hired killer relies on routine, especially when things aren't always as they seem.
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"Wedding Day"
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine A detective on a run to the bank the day of his daughter's wedding has to think fast to stay on schedule.​​
"Ignatius Rum-And Cola"
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Jan/Feb 2023In 1980s South Dakota, a Jesuit school superintendent new to a Lakota reservation must navigate powerful forces to solve a murder.​​
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2022
Mickey Finn 21st Century Noir: Vol. 3
Freelance courier Mercury Carter encounters unexpected family dysfunction
Tough Magazine
The coronavirus pandemic presents an unexpected opportunity to a man with an unorthodox job
Black Cat Weekly No. 64
A South Dakota sheriff searching for a missing couple stumbles on a nefarious plot
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"Once Upon A Time There Was an Ocean"
Paranoia Blues, October 2022
A Rochester gangster licking his wounds in NYC gains the courage to right a wrong.
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Black Cat Weekly No. 40,
A woman finds her resolved tested in unusual ways after the discovery of her husband's infidelity
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Mystery and Suspense Magazine
A new arrival threatens
a bully's nursing home
fiefdom.​
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Groovy Gumshoes
Hired to locate a missing newlywed, Rochester, NY, private eye Jerry Hollister
finds more than he bargained for.​
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2021
Side of Chorizo"
December 2021
Tragedy looms as an Ohio prison inmate walks away
from his work camp​
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Private Eye Andy Hayes
must save a hospital administrator caught in a
Covid scam
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Tough Magazine
Private Eye Andy Hayes
searches for a woman who disappeared
from a music festival
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This Time For Sure
2021 Bouchercon Anthology
A man reunites with his girlfriend after she left town suspected of murder
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Mystery Magazine
Freelance courier Mercury Carter meets resistance
trying to a life-saving
vaccination formula.
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2020
Mickey Finn Vol. 1
Freelance courier
Mercury Carter escorts a
woman fleeing her abusive husband
"Going Places"
Columbus Noir
An Ohio governor's bodyguard pledges to always protect his boss--but at what cost?
Black Cat Mystery Magazine
PI Andy Hayes is hired to dig
up the story behind the story of a man's fatal accident
conviction.
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"The Most Terrible Thing"
Over My Dead Body magazine
A woman seeks answers to her sister's death on the 1-year anniversary
"What Mr. Leonard Said"
Mystery Magazine
A poetic Texas serial killer knows his state history well
"The Path I Took"
Mystery Tribune
Danger stalks a young Gaelic scholar in rural Ireland in the 1980s
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
An accountant goes missing right before Christmas. An Andy Hayes story
2019
"You Can't Go Alone"
Mystery Magazine
A detective receives unexpected help while seeking justice for the death of his son from an overdose.
2017
"A Valentine's Day To Remember"
King River's Life
A young wife offers her husband intriguing Valentine's Day choices.
"Family Business"
Down & Out Magazine"
An rare art dealer discovers
the downside of keeping secrets.
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"The Murderous Type"
(2017 Al Blanchard Prize winner)
In 1980s Providence, a detective
puzzle over an out-of-towner's
murder
