Dissident Whispers – One Page RPG adventures in support of #BLM

Thrilled to be able to contribute my time and editing skills to this worthy project! An anthology of 58 original Continue reading →

“The Wellmachine Robot” and “This is My Corporation, Eat” – COVID-Free at IGMS!

NO LONGER BEHIND A PAYWALL! Click the links below… “The Wellmachine Robot” In the last days, the boy’s father left Continue reading →

“Head Music”

“Head Music” originally appeared in the Stoker Award winning anthology Borderlands 5. It earned an Honorable Mention in Year’s Best Fantasy & Continue reading →

Older & Free Online

Older Work “Deadglass” in Writers of the Future XXI and Triangulations: Dark Glass “Desperata (Or, The Desiderata of H.P. Lovecraft)” in Dark Faith “Last Rites in Continue reading →

Alamo Rising

Alamo Rising – A Steampunk Zombie Western by Josh Rountree & Lon Prater IF Larry McMurtry, insomniac and feverish, watched The Walking Continue reading →

Your Brain On Science

For the almost 11,000 of you who subscribed to my popular Flipboard magazine Your Brain On Science: Thank you! I’ve mostly Continue reading →

“Fresh Air”

Do you like your horror in small bite-sized chunks? If so, then SLICES OF FLESH from Dark Moon Books will Continue reading →

“Elder Brother” in Strange Aeons #16

  It was a brisk spring morning in Nantes in 1884, and the cathedral bells were ringing. Jules stood again Continue reading →

“Something to Hold the Door Closed”

Origins Award Finalist Anthology This story earned an Honorable Mention in Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror #21. As explorers conquered the Continue reading →

“A Childproof War”

This story was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthology, “A High Shrill Thump: War Stories,” Continue reading →

“All That Remains Is The Middle”

Published in the companion anthology to the award winning film London Voodoo This thought-provoking anthology presents 12 stories from established and Continue reading →

“Legwork”

The mean streets of north Florida may be desolate rural highways or backwoods dirt roads, but they are no less Continue reading →

“Heart of the Southern Isles”

“Heart of the Southern Isles” is a throwback to Flashing Swords anthologies and 60s and 70s flavored Swords & Sorcery, featuring a Continue reading →

“The Intern’s Story”

22 cards…each an individual splinter of the human psyche. 22 writers…honing each splinter into a story of triumph and decay, Continue reading →

“The Hound Dogs in the Bougainvillea”

Giant apes, detective chimps, astronauts, and missing links collide in APESHIT, a new anthology from the publishers of Big Pulp Continue reading →

The American In His Season

When Teddy Roosevelt imposes strict treason and censorship laws in the name of security, Sam Clemens fights back with a Continue reading →

The Island of Jayne Grind: A Satire of Selfishness

Don’t look for some weak-kneed Ayn Rand or her shrugging Atlas here! Even H.G. Wells’ Dr. Moreau would have a Continue reading →

That Time We Saved The Planet

In the summer before ninth grade, Jazz Carpenter gains dangerous powers when he becomes the new host body for a Continue reading →

Roads Like These

A young man wanders out on the dunes at night, lured by the strange music of a sea creature never Continue reading →

Familiar Cravings

Fill your plate with the grisly novellette “Starvelito” as entree, alongside a smorgasbord of disturbing side dishes for those with Continue reading →