-Willows Magazine 2007
Now Hiring - Emmaus Waiting Dead Hospital is looking for a keen fellow to keep an ear out for mistakes.
"Drummond stood in the center of the morgue holding his breath. One of the corpses had jingled their toe bell."
-Vulgata 2007
A book-burner falls under the spell of a seductive book and risks his soul to keep it safe.
"Even the leaves of the book were enchanted; their deckle edge causing paper cuts that bled like scarlet raindrops.
Jessamine’s Harvest did not open with a common crinkle of paper, but raither like primrose unfolding its petals to the moon.
Jessamine didn't crinkle. She spread. "
If there was one thing Parrish dreaded, it was doing something shameful that could never be taken back...
-Apex Magazine 2008
A deaf man pins his hopes on a dangerous experiment after falling for the bride of Henry VIII.
"On the king's map, the room was marked DAMAGED FOOD CELLAR, but when Uncle Ambrose needed a
place to store his patients, he swept out the gravel and pilcorn and made a secret hospital."
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-Amazing Heros III 2006
A clairvoyant young woman catches up to her dark destiny when she enters the house on Madhouse Road.
"Lily knew they would find her mother in the well with her pockets full of rocks. The night before, she watched in a dream as Mum's face slipped away beneath a black circle of water."
-Amazing Heros III 2006, A Novella
Two welsh lovers seek to escape the superstitions of their homeland and find themselves living amid witches in the newly settled wilds of America.
"Heel to toe, the boot prints went, forming a pattern shaped like a heart made of blood-red feet."
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-Eclectica Magazine 2004
In a little house in the big woods, two guests have come to stay for good. One is a girl with a sinister plan. The other is Regret.
"If there was one thing Parrish dreaded, it was doing something shameful that could never be taken back..."
Available for on-line reading.
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