Mr. Jeepers (A Novella)

1 Jaylen’s eyes opened and he saw shadowy figures dancing in front of him. Then he rubbed his eyes and the figures—just those little hallucinations that occur between sleep and…

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The Mummy’s Voice

Ben never got the creeps during the graveyard shift at the museum. All those figurines and statues and witch doctor masks, he never saw anything in ‘em besides wax, stone,…

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A Very Lonely Road

The sound of the car engine coughing and sputtering made my heart sink and my stomach knot. I always had a bad feeling about driving something that was twenty-three years…

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The Doctors

The doctors come into my dorm room, at night. I wake up with stitching in various places; my tummy, my chest, sometimes even my head. They take samples for their…

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29 Days

Rhett paced the parking lot and held the car key up in the air, clicking the lock button repeatedly until he heard a beep beep. He followed the beeps and…

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Unsaved by the Bell

I sit on the toilet and play Temple Run on my phone. This may be the furthest I’ve gotten on the game, but who really cares? It’s an endless running…

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Top 5 Influences for “A Very Lonely Road”

5. Psycho (1960) Whenever I am writing horror, suspense, or mystery, I'm generally thinking of Alfred Hitchcock's work, and more specifically, Psycho. As it pertains to my novella, A Very Lonely Road, the…

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