Mystery Stories

Includes Cover Illustration: Two young girls, while wilderness camping, are accosted by a religious zealot. Naked and shivering, they are forced to repent their sins. But it's not enough. Later, while they are sleeping, the man returns– with needle and thread.

When a bookstore owner goes from a reader and seller to a mystery sleuth, lines get blurred and consciences bruised. Now that's Snoopy!

Two young female soldiers and a young male soldier trapped on a moon inside a hover tank. What could possibly go wrong? Then again, what could possibly go right; very right?

In a traveling freak show, a woman called the Shattered Woman is displayed as a medical curiosity—silent, broken, and watched. As crowds come and go, her presence quietly unsettles the boundaries between spectacle and humanity.

A hitman sent to murder a woman finds himself torn between duty and conscience, uncovering danger, deceit, and unexpected emotions.

A Halloween 2020 Contest Entry
Male-perspective bisexual: For Halloween. Josh Cameron takes his wife, twenty-year-old daughter, and eighteen-year-old son on a vacation in Jamaica to try to repair the disintegrating family, torn apart by revelations of his own sexual preference indiscretion. He finds that Jamaica provides no escape, though, for any of the family in the form of the hunky Demonde, who just might be the Devil.

Male-perspective bisexual: Musicians, conductors, and concert technicians tangle up every which way at the summer Tanglewood music festival in Massachusetts twice, six years apart, with murderous results.