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I Wish The Moon Would Come Back"
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is one of my favorite stories of all time. It's Contemporary Fantasy, but has such a strong horror element I've always felt it was more horror than fantasy. I am working on an expansion that is available upon request to those who would like to
seriously review it.
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An experiment in writing under the influence, thank God they don't give tickets for that! "
Invalid Item"
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was written in five or six sittings over the course of a few weeks. I simply got stoned and wrote, only re-reading the final paragraph or two of the previous bit. I've only read it once since I finished it. I do love this story and for some reason it is very special to me. While you read it you should listen to
A Walk by Bad Religion...
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One of the two stories I've written that was inspired by my son, Malcolm. He has a 6 inch Care Bear in his toy basket and while playing with him one day I got the idea for "
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and ran with it. I'm reminded of Stephen King, who said once that he got his ideas from his dreams and from playing with his kids...
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Stripping Death"
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is one of the funnier pieces, dripping with sarcasm and a good line or two. Even though I wrote it the story makes me laugh every time.
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Invalid Item"
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is the other story that was inspired by my son. A prompt for a contest was to write "Ordinary Horror". Not long after reading the prompt I gave my hairbrush to my, then nine-month-old son, to chew on. I had another "King" moment and it got me first place!
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Inspired by a contest prompt I had quite a bit of fun writing "
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I've never written a zombie piece before and have always wanted to try my hand at it. Wanting to steer away from all the normal zombie stuff I liked idea of the prompt and I'm pretty happy with the end result.
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Originally inspired by a contest prompt "
Billy's Last Dare"
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quickly went past the word limit. Instead of paring it down and entering it into the contest I went back and wrote the story that I wanted to write. I'm quite happy with it, but feel that it does need a bit more work to tighten up the ending...
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My only vampire piece "
Prison of Reflection"
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was written for
The Resurrected Stake and Garlic Contest. I like reading a story that is told from multiple perspectives and enjoyed the challenge of
telling a story in that fashion. There is an expansion in the works, however, it has taken the back burner to other projects.
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Finally there is "
Invalid Item"
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which is not so much a scary story as a sad story. I wrote this one years ago for a Halloween Contest. To my recollection it won second place. It's told from the perspective of a little girl who is in a fatal car accident and always makes me cry.