Short Fiction

Addictions

(forthcoming, Mr. Bull)

 

​Notes on a Ransom
(forthcoming, Guilty Crime Magazine Website)

Forecast
(Sept. 2024, Guilty Crime Magazine)

Carver (and) [Company] - Reprint
(July 2024, Twisted Voices: Stories from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)

Sweet Little Baby
(July 2024, Dark Yonder Vol. 6)

The Contract Killer's Employee Manual
(Sept. 2023, Shotgun Honey)

Carousel Horses
(June 2023, Rock and a Hard Place Vol. X)

The Last Ruined Night
(Feb. 2023, Rock and a Hard Place Vol. IX)

Carver (and) [Company]
(Feb. 2023, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)

Parenthetical 
(Feb. 2023, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine)

The Snake
(Feb. 2023, Mystery Magazine)

Perforation of a Moment
(Jan. 2023, Dark Yonder)

Abductor, Abductee 
(Nov. 2022, Gone: A Crime Fiction Anthology, edited by Stephen J. Golds)

Keeping Time 
(Aug/Sept. 2022, Rock and a Hard Place Vol. VIII)

Dead Ends and One-Way Streets 
(July 2022, Shotgun Honey)

Watchkeeper
(June 2022, toughcrime.com)

Some Unseen Thing
(May 2022, Punk Noir)

880 FPS 
(April 2022 mysterytribune.com)

Frank 
(March 2022, Terror House)

Reveal the Character, Advance the Plot 
(Feb. 2022, Guiltycrimemag.com)

From Green to Red 
(Feb. 2022, Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, issue #29) 

Mark
(Jan. 2022, Guilty, Issue #3)

The Lesson of the Lamp 
(Nov. 2021, Under the Thumb: A Rock and Hard Place Anthology, edited by SA Cosby)

There Will Come a Harvest 
(Oct. 2021, Shotgun Honey)

Clouds 
(May 2021, Punk Noir)

The Sky Beyond the Branches
(March 2021, Mysterytribune.com)

Why Do They Have to Make It Easy?
(Jan. 2021, Mystery Weekly)

More Than Enough
(Aug. 2020, issue #13, Mystery Tribune)

A Drive-by on Chalmers Road? 
(Jan./Feb. 2020, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine)

Burn
(Sept. 2019, Mystery Weekly)

K O'Connor 
(March 2019, Mystery Weekly)

A Guy Walks into a Bar
(Aug. 2017, Phantaxis Science Fiction and Fantasy)

Like Minds
(Autumn 2005, Neo-Opsis, issue #7)

Carry on the Music, Man
(Summer 2005, Tastes Like Chicken, issue #6)

The Customer is Always Right
(Summer 2004, Blood Moon Rising, issue #22)





Poetry

​Years Before
(forthcoming, Revolution John)

Form Rejection: A Saga in Seven Acts
(May 2024, Gorko Gazette)

In-Law
(Oct. 2022, Gorko Gazette)

Alva
(Oct. 2022, Groko Gazette)

X-Mas
(Oct. 2022, Groko Gazette)

Heroine
(July 2021, Punk Noir)

Wrote a Poem
(July 2021, Punk Noir)

Five Years Old
(July 2021, Punk Noir)

Poetry is Usually Written by C*nts
(July 2021, Punk Noir)

Art
(July 2021, Punk Noir)

Legend
(May 2020, Nine Cloud Journal )

The Executioner is Drunk and the Ropes are too Wet for Strangulation
(Jan. 2019, Shift Lit. Journal)

Evil Awakes (and Needs Five More Minutes)
( Fall 2018, Grotesque)

Lesson 
(Fall 2005, Glass Tesseract)

My Train of Thought's Become Derailed
(Fall 2000, Images)



Selected Non-Fiction

​Joke page submission 
(December 2023, Hustler)

Joke page submission 
( July 2023, Hustler)

Seven Speculative Fiction Books All Mystery Authors Need to Read 
(April 2023, entry for Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Mag's online blog)

Out of One, Many 
(March 2023, entry for Ellery Queen's online blog)

The Famous Last Words of Mickey Spillane 
(May 2021, Guilty)

Die Laughing
(Jan. 2020, entry for Ellery Queen's online blog)

O'Connor's Impact Reached Far Beyond Ohio
(January 2017, The Toledo Blade)

Let Halloween Be About the Kids
 (October 2014, The Detroit News, )

Joke page submission 
(November 2013, Hustler)

Party humor submission 
(November 2013, Playboy)

Interview with mc chris
(September 2010, The AV Club)

The Bird of Paradise Jazz Club 
(2004, Perfect Sound Forever)

25 Albums that Should Not Have Been Recorded 
( 2003, Corporatemofo.com)