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Warden (alternately Devil’s Due, Traver Entry)

October 11, 2023

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Another story I had to republish to categorize for the Traver Awards. This was maybe the second story I ever wrote, after “The Very Cruelest Thing,” which I have to point out every time I mention it has been published eight times. I’m sure I’ll stop when I get to nine times, I promise. In […]

The Inverse Man – Part 7

July 27, 2023

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Part 1 Here Part 2 Here Part 3 Here Part 4 Here Part 5 Here Part 6 Here Part  7 Here 13 While I no longer believed in the hunt for a man, still I kept up appearances at the station. I had taken it upon myself to sort through all of the hundreds of […]

The Inverse Man – Part 6

July 25, 2023

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Part 1 Here Part 2 Here Part 3 Here Part 4 Here Part 5 Here Part 6 Here Part  7 Here 11 We returned to Brown’s Hotel. Holmes’s operatives reported that both Freud and Conan Doyle were still alive, although a bit worse for the wear. Holmes paid them all grandly and the three of […]

The Inverse Man – Part 5

July 23, 2023

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Part 1 Here Part 2 Here Part 3 Here Part 4 Here Part 5 Here Part 6 Here Part  7 Here 10 Out of leads, on the seventh, we once again returned to the Green Man for dinner. Stevenson was chafing from his confinement, so after dinner we retired to the game room for billiards. […]

The Inverse Man – Part 4

July 21, 2023

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Part 1 Here Part 2 Here Part 3 Here Part 4 Here Part 5 Here Part 6 Here Part  7 Here 8 “Sir, my apologies sir, you are needed again.” I sat up, albeit not quickly. I rubbed my hand along my jaw, the shave would wait. “Bring me a bowl of water, please.” I […]

The Inverse Man – Part 3

July 19, 2023

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Part 1 Here Part 2 Here Part 3 Here Part 4 Here Part 5 Here Part 6 Here Part  7 Here 6 At that moment, there was a loud knock at the door. We shot glances around the room. Holmes stood up and reached for the satchel, walked to the chimney in two long strides, […]

The Inverse Man – Part 1

July 17, 2023

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I posted a teaser for this a few years ago, but never the whole story. Hopefully, I inspired you to buy the book. This story will be in a best of Mythos coming up. Author’s Forward When I was young, I spent two weeks in the hospital. This was a time when friends of my […]

Daniel Webster’s Ghost

March 27, 2023

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Is there any ground whose fruit was not once watered in blood? It turns out I published this in Hatchmag, but never put it here! Enjoy. I stood on the bridge over Punch Brook, watching a small barefoot boy who had fallen asleep in the sun, his line still in the water. There was a […]

The Other America

October 31, 2022

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I submitted 3 entries to the Traver awards this year.  Here is one of them. Enjoy.   Tom, not Trent, or Trevor, or God forbid Trey, but good old plain American Tom, stood on the overpass and looked down at the cars below. “What I can’t get over is how they change,” he said. Billy, […]

The Water Knot

May 15, 2018

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Cover photo courtesy of Roger Mosley. Stories of the Sea 2018 Entry The Water Knot I was going to record this, because it was written to be read and it just doesn’t seem to come off on the page, but time shortens. I basically had 10 minutes to tell a novel-length concept, so I read […]

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