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Unplayable Lie
“The Mantelpiece Literary Magazine”
November 2023

Porridge
“On The Premises”
Issue #41

The Final Chapter
2023 Derringer Finalist
“Yellow Mama”
October 15, 2022

Question Everything
“On The Premises Mini-Contest #48”
May 17, 2021

The Family Business
“Yellow Mama”
April 13, 2021

The Copper Coin Caper
“Every Day Fiction”
January 4, 2021

Outsourcing
2021 Derringer Finalist
“Shotgun Honey”
December 22, 2020

Fast Times at Spiro Agnew High
“Fiction on the Web”
November 30, 2020

Tough Game
“Yellow Mama”
August 2020

Thought Experiment
“Twenty-two Twenty-eight”
June 14, 2019

Picture Perfect
“Crimson Streets”
May 12, 2019

Just Kidding
“Twenty-two Twenty-eight”
December 21, 2018

The Last Case
“Over My Dead Body”
November 2018

Bottom of the Thirteenth
“Flash Bang Mysteries“
Fall 2018

The Bicycle Thief
2019 Derringer Winner!
“The Norwegian American”
September 21, 2018

The Cure
“Twenty-two Twenty-eight”
June 1, 2018

The Skogkatt
“Every Day Fiction”
December 26, 2017

Anthologies & Magazines

The Cat Who Loved David Duchovny
“Impossible Worlds Magazine”
Issue IV

Red Oak’s Revenge
“Trees”
Jersey Pines Ink Press

The Battle of Hitchens’ Bridge
“Wight Christmas: Holiday Horror and Seasonal Subversion”
TDocSpec

The Last Mission
“Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet” #44
Small Beer Press
Paula Guran’s Review in Locus

Murder In Apartment B
“Whodunit”
Jersey Pines Ink

The Case of the Ripped-Off Ruby
“Mystery Weekly”
September 2021

The Natural Wonders of the State of Florida
“Funny Ha-Ha or Just Peculiar”
Murderous Ink Press

The Wizard and the Woke
“Stories for the Thoughtful Young”
B Cubed Press

The Witch of Sherman Oaks
The Colored Lens
Summer 2020

The Greatest Secret
“Heartbreaks & Half-truths”
Superior Shores Press

How to Become a Successful 21st Century Cyber Criminal in Five Easy Steps
“The Dark City”
Spring 2020

The Case of the Missing Physicist
in “Crime Travel” by Wildside Press
Reprinted in “The Chorochronos Archives

May 7, 2021
“Splickety”
March 2018

Do Not Pass Go…
“Mystery Weekly”
September 2017
The Biggest of the Best (2017)
The Best Mystery Story I Read This Week

The Case of the Vanishing Unicorns
“Mystery Weekly”
December 2015
Reprinted in “Gunsmoke & Dragonfire”

Stars & Stripes Forever?
“Beyond Centauri”
July 2011
Reprinted in “Horror for the Throne”

Other Stories

The CRISP-R Connection
“Yellow Mama”
June 15, 2023

The Hockey Card Heist
“Woman’s World”
March 25, 2019

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