Self-promotion may be “bad optics,” but if I don’t promote myself, who will?
Therefore, O kind reader, please take a moment to read this rundown of the various books that I have been fortunate enough to publish over the past fifteen years. And if you happen to see one (or more than one) that looks interesting, consider making a purchase. You won’t be sorry…
Considering Suicide (2009, Nine-Banded Books). Here, I contend with Hamlet’s famous question regarding the ramifications of the bared bodkin. Part 1, “Diary of a Suicide,” is a first-person account of a man who, over the course of one terrible summer, wrestles with the notion of ending his own life. Part 2, “Is Life Worth Living?” a different narrator considers the pros and cons of “taking up arms against a sea of troubles” from a more general (though not totally emotionally detached) perspective.
The Columbine Pilgrim (originally published in 2011, republished in 2020 by Terror House Press) My fascination with the Columbine shooting culminated in the composition of this novella in late 2010. The narrator, Tony Meander, “has got some bad ideas in his head.” He makes a pilgrimage to the “holy” site on the infamous Colorado high school, goes on a twisted tour with other Columbine enthusiasts, then takes action of his own.
The Doctor and the Heretic and Other Stories (originally published in 2011, republished by Hopeless Books in 2014). Here, I write my first twisted romance story (the title track), about an aging psychiatrist smitten with her young, troubled patient. Included in the collection is the Columbine-themed alternate history “Tears of the Damned,” and the self-explanatorily titled “Autobiography of a Violent Soul.” A generally shocking and more than a bit perverted read.
Under the Nihil (originally published in 2011, republished by Terror House Press in 2020). In this, my favorite book of my own canon (thus far), a young man suffers a terrifying mental collapse, then finds himself coerced into testing a new experimental chemical compound called “nihil,” which has been developed by the military-industrial complex to help soldiers to wage the state’s “war on terror” without fear. The transformation he undergoes winds up having far-reaching and unforeseen results.
Heart Killer (originally published in 2012, republished by Terror House Press in 2021). A serial seducer who considers himself a “carnal terrorist,” plots cold-blooded revenge against his neglectful father, then goes back in time to the 1980s to relive his high school days, where his libidinous depredations wind up creating a whole different timeline.
Lost Violent Souls (originally published in 2013, republished by Terror House Press in 2020). Five stories of men who have reached their breaking point, and set out to “disturb the universe.” Included is “Oswald Takes Aim,” which considers an alternate history in which the assassin got cold feet and JFK was never murdered in Dallas.
Beauty and the Least (published in 2014 by Hopeless Books). An unnamed, quietly unhinged cubicle-dwelling nobody nurses a fearfully intense desire for a lovely young girl. But the dizzyingly circuitous path leading to a surprising seduction is paved with dread, guilt, duplicity, and murderous rage.
This Malignant Mirage: Tales of Erotic Rage and Carnal Melancholia (published 2015). Ten tales of dark erotica, featuring “Motel Memento Mori” .
Collette’s Dream Man (published 2015) Collette, a beautiful high school senior, has a desperate crush on her dashing, charismatic history teacher Mark Wills; convinced that only “Mr. Wills” could possibly be the masterful mystery man bringing her nightly slumberous delight, this Savannah belle seeks official confirmation of her near-certain hunch and real life consummation of her feverish desires. But as our Collette gets up the nerve to approach her outwardly poised but secretly troubled instructor, her brooding and neglected classmate Pierce Westlover looks on from the shadows, his delicate soul throbbing helplessly between life and death…
The Insurrectionist (published in 2021 by Terror House Press). A post-2020 science fiction dystopian novel, in which a hero rises to strike a blow against the nefarious NWO architects of the so-called “new normal.”
Muze (published in 2022 by Terror House Press). In the near future, the world becomes enraptured by a mystery drug called Muze, which promises to boost men's confidence and help them find the woman of their dreams. After Muze becomes a hit among the incel community, one man becomes suspicious after his friend begins taking the drug and then "ascends," vanishing without a trace. His investigation into his friend's disappearance leads him to begin taking Muze himself, revealing a wider plot involving a pharmaceutical firm, a suicidal mental patient, a young woman bred to be the ultimate temptress, an amoral doctor, and more.
The Rule of Wrath (published in 2024 by Terror House Press). The sequel to Muze, in which a dystopian America on the brink of civil war sees its final presidential election and the beginning of a new regime which sets out to purge the legions of wicked and depraved oligarchs which have ruled the so-called “land of the free” for far too long.
Love and Hidden Agendas (published in 2024). In these three faux-love stories, the lives of men and women intertangle and unspool, leaving behind something resembling a crime scene of the heart... In "The Mary Anomaly," a devoted cultist with a bizarre obsession meets a suitor with an even odder fixation. In "Operation: Triggerman," a political activist is expertly "honeytrapped" by an attractive agent sent by the Deep State, until the tables turn most unexpectedly. And in "The Man Who Cuckolded Himself," a would-be suicide finds himself hurtling back in time instead of into oblivion. In the past, he becomes enmeshed in a dangerous romance with his young wife, which puts his younger self's marriage in peril and sets into motion a course of events which will reverberate through both space and time.
(Coming soon: my published non-fiction)
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