What we are about to have here is a holy water smack down!

While horror may make us squirm or quake, it will not make us cry at the pity of things. The vampire may symbolize our horror of both life and death, but none of us has ever been uprooted by a symbol. The zombie may conceptualize our sickness of the flesh and its appetites, but no one has ever been sickened to death by a concept.

I write about the scariest monsters: The ones inside us all. And the ones that want to eat what is inside us all.

You know Dahmer was a cannibal. You think he was a zombie?”
Tom smirked. “I’m no expert, but not all cannibals are zombies.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.