The Fiction Path · Short Stories, Prose & the Novel
What the tide brings back.
Strange weather moving through the ordinary world — and the tide brings back things that should have stayed buried. — from Bloodsworth: Tidal Brood
Prose Horror · Featured Novel
Bloodsworth: Tidal Brood
A novel of coastal horror, conspiracy, and transformation — the whole book free to read online. Pay $5 only if it gets under your skin.
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Some places are not abandoned. They are waiting.
Out in the Chesapeake Bay, Bloodsworth Island sits behind warning signs, military history, and decades of rumors. Most people know better than to go near it. The ones who do come back with strange stories. Missing time. Bad dreams. Wounds that will not heal.
Some never come back at all.
When Bethany Reyes begins chasing the truth behind a series of impossible sightings, she finds herself pulled toward the island’s black water and buried past. April Corrigan has her own reasons for getting too close. Elena is following a trail of disappearances, corrupted evidence, and whispers no one in authority wants explained.
They are all looking for answers.
Bloodsworth gives them something else.
Beneath the marsh grass and tidal rot, something old has survived. Something hungry. Something that does not simply kill what it touches. It changes it. Flesh, memory, loyalty, desire — all of it can be reshaped. And once the island marks you, leaving may not mean escape.
Because Bloodsworth is not just a place.
It is an infection.
Bloodsworth: Tidal Brood is a slow-burn descent into coastal horror, conspiracy, body transformation, and survival — where every answer opens a deeper wound and the tide brings back things that should have stayed buried.
Weird Western · Serialized Novel
Mercy: A Serialized Novel
A gunfighter rides into the desert after the man who shot a boy in the back — and finds something out there that never belonged to the desert at all. Nineteen episodes, free to read.
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There is no mercy in the desert. Not for any man.
Blake Coal buried his wife, and after that the black Morgan was the only family he needed. Then a twelve-year-old boy is shot in the back while tending that horse, and Coal rides out of the churchyard with two Colts and a name: Barren.
The desert stands between them.
It is a four-day ride across country Coal knows better than anyone alive — he was raised in it, and he learned his code there. But this crossing is not like the others. Lights move across the night sky in arcs hundreds of miles wide. Footprints cross the sand and stop dead inside a ring of scorched earth. And in the old cliff dwellings above the river, three men have something bound on the floor that is not a woman, and is not an animal, and is begging.
Then there is Grace — sharp, armed, and entirely unwilling to be rescued.
Nothing will stand in his way. Not the desert, not a questionable woman, and certainly not aliens.
Mercy began as a chapter-by-chapter serial for Kindle Vella, written so that every episode ends on a ledge. Vella closed; the story did not. It was reworked into a novella with the ledges left exactly where they were — nineteen episodes, free to read in full.