I write mainly write short horror stories and have many full length novels in the works. I’ve put a list of of my posted stories here to make it a little easier to find them all. The stories found here along with stories not posted, appear in Fate’s Darkened Beauty, a monthly collection of short stories. In the future, there will be many other areas of writing added to the issues. If you want to know a little more about me click on the About Me page and if you want to show your support, you can purchase this months collection below that includes some of these and other stories not posted . Thank you for reading and if you enjoy the stories, please like and comment.
Fate’s Darkened Beauty: A Collection of Short Stories V1 #2 is available now on Amazon and contains When Light is Gone and Chuck, both found only in Fate’s Darkened Beauty. It also contains in full, Family Eternal, Cruel Young and Bone Deep.
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Chelsea began having strange dreams that started on her sixteenth birthday. They were of a little boy that looked about eight or nine years old. He had a little trickle of blood that came down the side of his face and it seemed to come from a small fissure above his temple…Read more
Just a short one today but It explains a little more on one of the characters in Heart Broken. A very handsome man named Aaron, had just returned home from a late night meeting for the local magazine he writes for. Like most others like him, he just wanted to have a snack and relax…Read more
My name is Kevin Holt and hopefully I have found a way to die before this is read. I have no idea what I am but it must have something to do with my father, whoever he is or was. I can’t be around people, I can’t lead a normal life and I can’t die.…Read more
Just a part of this story, the rest will be in Fate’s Darkened Beauty V1 #2. School can be a difficult time for some. Kids can and will be cruel to others but once school is over with and you’re out in the real world, none of the social life that once existed there matters any more. Annie Collins wasn’t one…Read more
Angela was a very warmhearted person, so it was no surprise to how sympathetic she was when she saw an injured cat on her lawn. She took the cat inside, cleaned him up and made a bed for him. She even made a trip to the store to buy cat food, treats and a litter…Read more
This is a little different from what I write but when it popped in my head, I just had to tell her story. Fictional of course. I remember being 11 years old and we had just moved into an old manor out in the country. I had never seen such a big house on so…Read more
This is only about a third of the story, the rest will be put out in Fate’s Darkened Beauty V1 #2, at the end of this month. In the 1960’s, a boy named Howard Jones was born. He didn’t develop like the other children and when his parents became concerned they took him to…Read more
Jennifer, Brian and Stacey were walking to a friends house after at night of clubbing. There was supposed to be an after hours party going on and all of there friends were going to be there. Becky’s house wasn’t too far from the club they were at so they all decided to walk to the…Read more
Erica and her son, Ethan, had just moved in to an old farm house after the loss of her husband. The house belonged to her close friend, Sara, that had no use for it and rather than just let it sit there, she let Erica move in. Her heart weighed her down as she unpacked,…Read more
A horror rock band by the name of Drowning Glory, set out on there first tour. They weren’t very well known yet but had already put out a few albums at their own cost and were gaining popularity. Darren ‘Hells’ and Matt Ryder were brothers that started the band in high school, they played lead…Read more
I awoke in a poorly lit cave having no idea how I got there. My head was hurting something terrible and felt like I had just been hit by a bus. When I got to my feet, I had a vision, a flash of thought enter my head and I saw myself climbing on top…Read more
She had never been this excited or nervous at the same time, it was her wedding day. She had the perfect dress, rented the perfect hall and would soon have the perfect husband. As she looked in the mirror touching up her makeup, she was reminded of her parents objection to the wedding. They loved…Read more
Larry Brooks worked in an office cubicle, he’s worked in the same cubicle for the past twelve years. Naturally he hated his job but crunching numbers and typing reports was the only thing he knew how to do, he wouldn’t know what to do with a hammer if you gave him one. Larry had…Read more
Brent Underwood was a college student like any other. He went to school, worked a crappy part time job, lived off of noodles and whatever he could sneak out of work in his back pack. The two best parts of his day were getting off of work to live out his obsession with…Read more
Amy was a young woman who seemed to have a normal life. She worked during the day and took classes at the local college in the evening. On the nights she didn’t have school she would have coffee at a nearby poetry lounge called The Written. Like a lot of the people there she was…Read more
Our story begins with a man who owns a piano shop. He had built and played pianos his whole life and everyday in his spare time he would work on what he called his greatest creation for himself. He carved every detail of this piano from the scroll work on the frame to the names…Read more
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