Short Stories Books

The 1990s - especially the early years - in the North Davidson arts and entertainment district (NoDa) of Charlotte (NC, USA) are recounted in this 2200-word short story. Three of the early major NoDa figures who are now deceased (Terry Carano, Joe Behm, Bruce Gillenwater) are included in this...

It's an exodus: elves are leaving the city of Mandeville in droves, seeking new livelihoods and homes. For Arrian Dale it's the perfect escape, a chance to leave the mines behind and make the best of his youth. But when his people are slaughtered and his parents enslaved, he finds himself alone...

On a cold January evening in 1986 at Carolina Beach (NC, USA) three future agents embark on a mission to investigate a flashing hotel sign some fifty feet above the ground. Everything does not go as planned. Some found graffiti presages a calamitous future event. A 2100-word short story featuring...

Back in the summer of 1985, three young dudes paddle a pair of inflatable rubber boats over to a deserted, very small marsh island in the Wrightsville Beach (NC, USA) sound. Soon the 'elixium' starts to take effect. Space gets distorted. Words sound strange. Then there's a medical situation to...

When six astronauts embark on Earth's first manned mission to Mars, all does not go as planned.

Agent 33 of the Psecret Psociety recounts a strange dream about someone whom he has never met (Ted Maize) over rooftop beers in Charlotte. The unique subject of the dream, a young man named Ted Maize, is determined to rise to the top of the corporate world and 'get an office high up in the tower'...

Culden, the dragon harbinger of evil, has escaped once again to wreak havoc on the people of the land. Being once sealed and imprisoned by Eldest Dragon, the leader of the people, within himself, Culden is more erratic and vengeful more than ever. With the Death of their leader, Eldest Dragon, few...

This is the scheming, steamy, suspenseful, bizarre 3,000-word short story from July 2011 that preceded the 80,000-word novel 'Gold, a summer story' (2013). Some of the characters, scenes, and plot in this quick-read beach tale were used in the later novel. The action takes place in Carolina Beach...

Psecret Psociety Agents 32 and 33 take the train from Charlotte to meet up with Agent 14 in downtown Greensboro (NC, USA) and attempt to locate the mythical Jim character. Another meta-real odd odyssey. A 2,400-word short story.

Jeffrey and Steven stand outside of a gas station, eating snacks and talking to women that go inside. Everything is fine until the clown shows up. If Jeffrey had known things would turn out this way he would've just stayed home.