Category Archives

Fiction

Black Winged Roses

The woman was no great beau­ty, not by a long shot…

Prospero’s Island

A flower, two or three grains of sand, and a note of song make an island…

The Law and the Profits

In ret­ro­spect, maybe traf­fick­ing souls for the raw mate­r­i­al to dis­guise her own was the mistake…

Cities of Emerald, Deserts of Gold

I avoid the gold­en lands, where the wind trav­els alone for miles…

Man of Bone and Fame

His fees were high but his fail­ure rate was low…

If God Is Watching

I killed a man when I was 13…

Stories I Tell to Friends

As a kid I had a crush on Cap­tain Kangaroo…”

Lovecraft in Brooklyn

The scratch­ing in the walls both­ered one room­mate in particular…

More Dark

On the after­noon train from Pough­keep­sie to New York City for a thing at the Krem­lin Bar — John and me and an emp­ty seat that should’ve been Jack’s…

Nick Kaufmann, Last of the Red-Hot Superwhores

Every farm­boy was a red-hot super­whore once upon a time…