Short Stories

He was the assassin, the executioner, the bringer of death for the Blood King. After all, Terrance understood death better than most.

Court-appointed therapy doesn’t go quite the way Rapunzel thought it would.

I done worse things than follow some half-human kid toward the beginning of a new world.

The soul had been flayed, shredded into suffering ribbons, and Death had to think carefully about how to handle it right.

Just a story about magic, cereal boxes, and long-lost Mesoamerica gods. No, who am I kidding? It’s about a badass convenience store manager with a…

A pretty lady always knows how to smile. (Flash fiction: 240 words)

Flappers. Vampires. A thug who stole a necklace and a speak-easy with Jazz to die for. A short, cute story set in New York City…

I can see the life leave you. You died for nothing.

He got away with it all. In the end, it was the damned cows that caught him.

Now, he knew what this place held. Monsters, magic leaves, things all meant to stop him and eat him and stop him and hurt him,…

The moths came when you left. (Flash Fiction)

Ghost’s don’t mean to scare you. (Free-form poem.)

Punish me, will you? Two can play this game. (Flash Fiction)

She’d won. She’d won! He had got it wrong, but she’d won. No way was she going to pass up collecting.  » Read more about: The Bet  »

He’d always painted what he saw; these visions pushed him, bled out his eyes, and the only cure for augural blindness was to splatter it…

On a hill, he sat. Alex didn’t match the location. Casually ragged jeans and a worn orange shirt stood out in this fantasy-field setting, at…

“Go calm down the idiots, would you?” said Iskinder, gaze locked on the screen. “It is time for you to use your particular talent for…

Soon, I’ll have enough, and I can step out of this idiot game and I swear, I swear, no one is ever going to touch…

Ancient vampire Notte has tea with a friend right in the middle of some… family business. Awkward! (No spoilers. A side-story from NOTTE.)

A sleep-deprived elf prince. An open-minded doctor. Weird physical therapy. This tale contains a TERRIBLE PUN. You have been warned.

Uh-oh.

Yes, you’ll see them again.

Note: this story is kind of spoilery for THE SUNDERED, so if you haven’t read that book, you might want to head back to the…

Aiden smiled. “What can I do for you, my friend?” he said, and waggled a finger. “Be sure, it will cost you.” No, It wouldn’t.

THIS WAS A VERY BAD DAY. Salis buffed his shoes, ironed his uniform, used magic to change the shade several times until the seams began…

Two short stories following Ravena and Terrance. Prequel to NOTTE.

A mad Roman emperor. An ancient depressed vampire. A bizarre evening to remind the Blood King why life is worth living.

A Fey thief, down on his luck and with a heavy debt to pay. A sentient throne guarding the Unseelie treasure. What could go wrong?

Sometimes a single afternoon is enough to make up for a lifetime of bad decisions; at least, it comes close. This spoiler-free short story follows…

Someday, he’d just leave. Nobody would call him prince, or Highness, or expect him to do anything miraculous. Someday could not come soon enough.

The Crow King, a dark and powerful being of Darkness, ruminates to his newest lover about strange and intimate things. (No spoilers.)

Starring a hedgehog who think he’s a fairy. In honor of National Tell a Fairy Tale Day, this story is complete cotton candy: silly, cute,…

I do not blame you for your fear. Humans are my prey – but my friend, I do not hunt small children.

A dark short story following no one – that is, no major characters, nor even anyone we see again in this universe. If you ever…

A deliciously creepy side story with vampires, a dying Earth, and a secret organization. Dark, mildly disturbing, and – if you’ve read THE SUNDERED -…

It is as if each generation bled, leaked ink or paint or power. Or perhaps it is something else that has left them.

A sad little tale following a type of creature even the ancient vampire Notte knows nothing about: a creature of The Dream. Explanation is given…

A brand-new vampire, abandoned by his maker, trying desperately to stay sane. Warning: This one’s a little bloody. (No spoilers. A side-story from the epic…

A different take on the Princess and the Frog. I apologize for the pun in the title. Pfft, who am I kidding? I apologize for…

I thought we’d have longer. I thought I’d grow up. They only come when the oldest natural dies. Then they come, and they take our…

A word of advice: if you see him, don’t run. A dark and disturbing short story. (No spoilers. A side story from NOTTE.)

You didn’t know you needed advice from a brand-new adoptive mama and her baby dragon, did you? Well, you do. Trust me on this. I’m…

An absurd story based off a prompt about… breakfast?

We were tasked with stopping the end of the world, but it’s too late for that. So, failing that, we are tasked with preserving what…

CROSSOVER FICTION: Eugene discovers he is Kin (part-human, part… something else), and then runs into monster-buster LUCY DECEMBER (a Jewish vampire detective written by John…

A strange event in the life of little girl who will one day turn the world on its head. (No spoilers. A side-story from NOTTE.)

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SPOILER WARNING (If you’ve read The Sundered, you’re good to go. Otherwise, head back to the short stories for safer fare.) Rage was fire, and…