First Stories

Alien parasites with a hive mind take over the bodies of humans. The Hive spreads by sexual transmission.

A proud and prudish Catholic mom from the suburbs of Pennsylvania, Shawna Lynn McDonnell volunteers to act as a chaperone on the first field trip at her son's new school. But what Shawna doesn't realize is that, on this field trip, she will be the one getting an education; an education in what it means to have power and who, in the new and hellish landscape in which she finds herself, actually has it and whose is just an illusion.

A hitchhiker walking down a loney highway makes a bad decision (or is it?)

I wrote a fictional story based on my cousin Becky a while back. She read it and liked it, but the real story would have been better.

When my colleagues learned that I was still a virgin they started a contest to see who could take my virginity. The winner was to get a statue of Artemis, the ancient Greek virgin goddess of the hunt. The man who won the contest explained it to me before returning home to his wife.

My wife and I attend my 10 year Class Reunion