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FREE eSingle, “Transmogrify” to release before Staring Into the Abyss (Kraken Press)
Posted on February 3, 2013 4 Comments
We’re going to be giving away a FREE eSingle of my contemporary vampire short story, “Transmogrify” soon. Cinder (Cindy to her friends) feeds on negative energy—she’s a psychic vampire, or energivore, a bit of a twist on the classic tale. It’s in my upcoming collection of neo-noir and horror stories, Staring Into the Abyss (Kraken […]
Release the Kraken! My short story collection, Staring Into the Abyss, will be out later this year.
Posted on January 10, 2013 Leave a Comment
That’s right, my second short story collection, Staring Into the Abyss, will be out later this year from Kraken Press. It’s a collection of 20 dark stories, neo-noir leaning towards horror, and some of my best work to date. Want to know more? Head over to their website or just keep reading. We’re targeting March, […]
New Storyville Column is Live – Dissecting “Maker of Flight”
Posted on October 27, 2012 Leave a Comment
My new Storyville column is now up, and in this column, I dissect one of my favorite bits of short fiction, “Maker of Flight.” Why do I love this story? Partly because it has a sweetness at its center—it’s one of the few stories of mine I can actually read to my children. Every once […]
Third Storyville Column at Lit Reactor: The Journey of “Rudy Jenkins”
Posted on January 19, 2012 Leave a Comment
My third column went up at Lit Reactor last month (December 2011) and I totally forgot to come back here and post up about it. This column talks about the journey of one of my problem children, “Rudy Jenkins Buries His Fears” and shows you what you have to go through sometimes in order to […]
“Ten Steps” is now live at ChiZine (The Chiaroscuro)
Posted on April 20, 2011 3 Comments
My story “Ten Steps” is now up at ChiZine (Chiaroscuro) as part of their major new relaunch. I wrote this at the Jack Ketchum intensive at The Cult. So many other great voices here, in the previous, and coming weeks, I can’t possibly list them all but let me shout out at least a few […]
An Incomplete List of My Online Stories
Posted on August 12, 2009 4 Comments
This is a Table of Contents for all of my current, LIVE fiction that is available online for FREE. Below are each of the stories, a brief synopsis, and a link to the site that hosts them. They are in reverse chronological order. What do all of these stories have in common? I tend to […]
Praise for “Maker of Flight”
Posted on April 6, 2009 2 Comments
From the editor of ChiZine Publications, Brett Alexander Savory, via their Facebook update: ENTER THE WORLD OF FILARIA CONTEST RESULTS The winning entries for the Enter the World of Filaria Contest have been posted at the site. Richard Thomas’s “Maker of Flight”, a disquieting tale of what might be happening behind a closed door on […]
“Maker of Flight” is live – Winner of Filaria Contest
Posted on April 1, 2009 2 Comments
Well, the story is now live. Hope you dig it, I really had fun with it. I’ve had some fantastic conversations with the author Brent Hayward, saying that this story will now be a part of the world he created, which is really just the nicest thing I could hear about this short. Brett Alexander […]
I just won the ChiZine Publications “Enter the World of Filaria” fiction writing contest
Posted on March 10, 2009 Leave a Comment
http://chizine.com/chizinepub/announcements/filaria-contest-winners.php It is finally, public. I am the winner of the 2009 “Enter the World of Filaria” contest by ChiZine Publications. This is the first time I’ve ever won anything writing related. I get published online and $250 bucks! WOW! My first paycheck as a writer. The story, “Maker of Flight” will be posted April […]
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