Short Stories

Everyone fears the banshee; to hear their song is to know that death is coming soon, and they can no more be bargained with than death itself.  But tonight, Bridget Flanagan is ready to face the banshee without fear, and to make a bargain that even the spirits of death have never heard before.

Sleigh Ride With Title

An older truth about a character you think you know…

George Bradley is watching the world end.  Not in fire or ice, divine wrath or demonic rampage, but in terrible beauty.

Homecoming queen Deborah von Teufelsblut did some pretty nasty things to get her tiara, and now that she has it, things are getting even nastier. Yes, Debbie’s picking off the cheerleaders one by one, but not in the way you think. Debbie is doing this rampage for Johnny, but in the end, Johnny may have called up something he can’t put down.

Melissa Haskins has woken up alone in a city of the dead. Something vast and terrible moves across the world, and she has no choice but to hide when it passes overhead – she can hear it coming by the strange music that goes before it.

But then one day, she hears a voice coming out of the big empty – a voice that may just inspire her enough to finally go out and face the music.

Captain Eileen Brennan serves her country in a field hospital in the desert.  But one day she’s called to serve in a greater war.

Zack has a secret. A secret that he’s kept hidden for a long, long time – longer than most people can easily imagine. But now he’s met Eileen, and the time has come for the secret to be told.

Headlines From The Book of Revelation – Someone has to bear witness to the end of the world.  Judgement doesn’t always take the form you expect it to…

Important Find – A rogue archaeologist in war-torn Iraq finds something that should never have been found.  Something older than the world.   Something that could bring this age of the world to an end.

Something strange and terrible is happening to Randolph Stevens’s world. Pieces of it are disappearing, bit by bit. And he’s the only one who notices.

Ryan Hall has lived his life over and over again, different every time, always trying to get it right. Every new choice is a different lifetime. But now, at the end, it all comes down to one choice: his own happiness, or the great love of his life

An office worker on the night shift confronts the darkness beneath New York City.

For the last seven years, John Weston has had everything he wants: money, women, and a small-town sort of success.  Tonight, he pays the price.

Celia Rivera is a witch who keeps her own little shop in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.  She’s a respected member of the community, but when someone targets her family, she proves that she can still handle a magical street fight.

Train Delay –When your subway car is stuck in the dark below the rivers, sometimes you wonder if it will ever move again…

Something terrible has come out of the Hudson, and it’s up to Shin-Nephura defend her Manhattan neighborhood against it.  But it may be too much for one cat to handle…

The first story in the Guardian Cats cycle.  Our introduction to the cats of the Old Compact, and our first glimpse into their nightly battle to defend us from the horrors that we might not see coming until it’s too late.

A storm is blowing in over Coney Island, and something old and dark and vast is riding on its crest.  Nar-Tali the Gull Hunter can’t stop the thing in the storm, any more than he can stop the storm itself…but the thing in the storm brings other things with it, and those Nar-Tali can fight…

The second story in the Guardian Cats cycle, this story explores the relationship between the Cats of the Old Compact and the human guardians of the night.

Washington Square Park is an oasis at the heart of the City – a place of art, music and peace.  But an old, angry spirit sleeps beneath the park, struggling to break free and turn it into a place of rage and horror.  And only a cat named Queenie and a little black dog who is much more than he seems stand in the way.

The third story in the Guardian cats cycle, The Black Dog lets us see how the Cats of the Old Compact interact with other supernatural beings in their nightly watch.

A hatchling of the Serpent of Darkness has entered a quiet neighborhood in the outer boroughs, and a young cat, not even a Guardian yet, must decide what he’s willing to sacrifice to protect the humans who gave him his name.

The fourth story in the Guardian Cats cycle, Kodama’s Courage honors a real cat I once knew.