This Year’s Ghost (Extended Cut)
I never realized until I published my first short story collection the number of iterations one might go through before settling on the right permutation of pieces to arrive at a successful book.
I’d been submitting versions of the manuscript for about five years before JackLeg Press picked it up. I thought it would be fun to share some of the stories that were part of this collection at one time or another but didn’t make the final cut. Full text of each story available free online via the links below.
“Monitor”
A new mother discovers she can catch glimpses of her child’s future via her baby monitor, published via Ponder Review.
A cat named crackers goes mad with the implications of time travel and ongoing changes to the timeline, published via Sick Lit Magazine.
The post-apocalyptic gets very personal when precisely the wrong combination of friends and lovers take refuge together as the world burns, published via Bowery Gothic.
A woman traps vile men in her dollhouse village, published via Mania Magazine.
A bereaved child and a ghost play chess, published via Charge Magazine
Survivor’s guilt racks a man who survived the end of the world as he knew it, published via Jellyfish Review.