Short Fiction

“Killers and Samaritans” | Tough

Roz, a Dallas PD detective with an axe to grind, takes her cousin River on a hunt for a missing black girl in East Texas. They find the trouble they go looking for.

“Catalytic Converter” | self-published

A young black man is lynched in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1985. Detectives Mack Sibley and Julian Rene catch the case and quickly discover that the murder isn't as straightforward as it appears. As they look for the killers, Mack and Julian find their close friendship shifting unexpectedly into romance.... but can they handle venturing into forbidden territory?

“Dreamland” | self-published
DREAMLAND (8K+ words) follows LAPD Detectives Cary Cooper and Dwight McQueen of Central Homicide, best friends and partners who belong to a secret organization within the police force known only to its members as "Containment.” The murder of a beautiful stripper who worked at the same gentleman’s club as Cary and Dwight’s female companion Nora leads the two men down a doomed path.

“Cinders” | Thuglit: Issue 7
Mitch and Cole are two brothers who would do anything to protect each other. “Anything” includes murder.

“Predators” | Shotgun Honey Presents: Locked and Loaded, Vol. 3
Gabriel Kidd goes undercover to save two underage girls who have been kidnapped by a pair of rapist sex traffickers. The sting goes south.

“Tinder” | Tough
In the post-apocalyptic West, Second Civil War veteran “Spark” hunts down a depraved serial killer responsible for the deaths of two brothers.

“Means to No End” | Plots with Guns, Winter 2013
In a dystopian U.S. West of the future, cousins Cash and Judd rob a man of his chance at revenge and become his new targets.

“Mexican Standoff, Plus One” | Beat to a Pulp, the Webzine
Gabriel Kidd takes a bounty hunting job that sends her south of the border. Things get hairy.

“Prowler Blues” | Out of the Gutter’s Flash Fiction Offensive
Genesis, a sex worker, is raped by a client. Her partner Virgo avenges her.