Ben & Ollie's Summer Vacation. Every few years, the small Texas town was overrun by small creatures as spring became summer. In some years, it was locusts. Perhaps in another, it would be crickets. Benjamin well remembered walking downtown streets, shoes crunching the insect skeletons that covered the sidewalks two inches thick. This year, it was rats. They were everywhere. Every time you turned over a large rock or piece of lumber, there would be at least one that scurried a

What had he seen? A car with an open trunk with a foot sticking out. His pickup truck was so old that it still had the shift lever next...

Sande is a loner. Call her a survivor. In the end, there was quiet. Sande Johnson poked her head from the cellar, her home for months. A...

A young vampire’s coming-of-age. When he turned to go, Brenda placed a hand on his arm. “Don’t go.” Danny looked back at her. What now?...

On a stormy evening in the aftermath, Harry comes upon Sue’s bungalow. Lightning slashed a path across the evening sky. In its brief...

This way lies madness. BEYOND HERE LIES NOTHIN’ Jack stopped his old black Ford pickup, leaned out the window to read the weathered sign,...

Salassa moved her knight, her gaze flickering between the board and the distant mushroom cloud. The sun hung low, casting an ominous hue...

Vampire hunter? Paul Hutton looked mockingly into the rearview mirror. Like you have a lot of experience in that line of work. Vampire...

a Brief 7-Act Play Act 1: The Unlikely Lab (Scene: A cluttered and dimly lit laboratory, filled with the hum of machinery. Professor...

Special deliveries of the dead? Manic missives from deep space? Creepy crawlies through some rupture in the fragile membrane of reality?...

Directly above her prone figure on the bed, a white ball puffed into existence. Alone and abandoned. Again. Johanna Underwood lay on her...

I barely hear the brittle grass crunch under my feet as I cut across my front yard, but I’m fully aware of the panic that climbs my...

“Sit,” she commanded in a soft voice. “Excuse me while I slip into something comfortable.” Minutes later, she stood at the top of the...

A utility worker trying to restore power in a storm works in a high bucket in the gusting wind.   Stinging rain pelted Tanner Sage and...