My short story AMISH ROAD TRIP is included in Alien Buddha Press' anthology Summer Sucks!!! now available!
A collection of short stories and poetry exploring the dark side of summertime.
On a sweltering Arizona drive to scatter her late husband’s ashes at her brother’s roadside memorial, a grieving woman finds the angel statue commemorating him destroyed. At a rundown summer camp for troubled teens, three ex-cons working as cleaners battle exhaustion, drug use, and brutal heat, until a terrifying vision in the outhouse suggests something sinister festers beneath the camp’s filthy surface. On the morning of their tenth anniversary, a man’s wife leaves him and their dog dies from a caffeine overdose, leaving him spiraling. A disabled teen escapes his oppressive religious upbringing, stumbles through addiction, abuse, and moral failure, and accidentally becomes a viral hero—then a serial killer—after beating a violent maniac with a brass Buddha statue. After a grisly cycling accident outside a Colorado convenience store, a strung-out former EMT fixates on the smear of brains.
Content Warning: Oppressive heat, relentless dread, and the kind of discomfort that lingers long after the sun sets. Some stories may scorch a little too deep. Tread carefully. Summer Sucks!!!
26 short stories and 10 poems, spanning 261 pages of horror, drama, and comedy.
Read a preview here!
