The Fiction Path · Novels, Serials & Short Stories
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Serialized Novel · Weird Western · 2026
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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Novel · Prose Horror · 2026
Bloodsworth: Tidal Brood
Strange sightings in the Chesapeake Bay draw a small group out to Bloodsworth Island, where something old has survived. The whole novel is free to read; pay $5 only if it gets under your skin.
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Short Story · September 2025
Keep Quiet
Clara Thorne reports live as a four-alarm fire takes her apartment and everything in it. Then the camera’s red light goes out.
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Short Story · August 2025
Lunch
Arthur forgot his sandwich, so he tries the new vending machine in the breakroom. Button F9 offers no picture and no name — just one word: Lunch.
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Prose · June 2014
Moving to Harborton…
Leaving the sirens and thin walls of Virginia Beach for a fishing village of 130 people, and a road quiet enough to write beside.
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Short Story · Wolfson Award, 2009
The Day I Became Guilty
A young girl, a dying father on a sweltering July Tuesday, and a mother who prays over him every hour with a rosary wound around her wrist.
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